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ANNUALREPORT

2014 PERU

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UNICEF works every day so that children in Peru have equal opportunities and develop their full potential. Everything we do is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most ratified international human rights treaty in the world.

The realization of each of these rights will give rise to a new generation, which we call Generation i: the Generation of Inclusion, the Generation of equal opportunities.

Generation i will be a generation of citizens who respect human rights, are tolerant and build peace; a generation that uses natural resources responsibly and takes care of the environment; a generation that respects institutions and norms that strengthen democracy. The generation that will achieve sustainable development in Peru.

Generation i is only possible if we guarantee all children their rights.

Foreword2014 was a special year. We marked the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most ratified human rights treaty in the world, which guides our work.

In Peru, we celebrated by recognizing thirteen women and men who have contributed to public policies for Peruvian children and adolescents. Among the recipients was Javier Prez de Cuellar, who served as Secretary General of the United Nations when the Convention was adopted in 1989.

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake visited Peru in April. His meetings with President Ollanta Humala and other authorities helped reaffirm UNICEFs commitment to Peru.

This year we reached the midpoint of the current Country Programme 2012-2016. The public policies that have started to take effect at the national and regional level encourage us to keep moving forward.

UNICEF continued to work with communities and local and regional authorities in six regions Amazonas, Apurmac, Ayacucho, Cusco, Loreto and Ucayali to pilot models for scaling up.

Our Child Survival and Development programme continued to help Peru in fighting child mortality, chronic malnutrition and anaemia in young children. The Government of Peru universalized multi-micronutrient supplementation for all children aged six months to three years.

In education, Perus main challenges include: adapting curricula to the realities of students, strengthening the capacity of teachers, promoting intercultural bilingual education (IBE), expanding access to pre-school in remote areas and investing in infrastructure. In 2014, UNICEF supported Perus efforts to overcome these challenges and we continue to do so.

Peru has always shown interest in adapting national legislation to align with the Convention. UNICEF has provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (MIMP) to reform the Code for Children and Adolescents such that it meets international standards and contributes to improving childrens rights.

Elections were held across the country to elect municipal, provincial and regional authorities. UNICEF worked with Perus elections agency (JNE) to ensure new decision-makers would prioritize children in their government plans. UNICEF also helped develop a new tool to track public spending on children.

Perus geography makes it one of the countries most vulnerable to natural disasters. UNICEF continued to work with different levels of government to build a rights-based approach to disaster risk reduction.

UNICEF works in Peru to help Peruvians guarantee the rights of children. As international cooperation funding decreases, the cause for childrens rights will depend on national solidarity. This year, along with corporate social responsibility initiatives, UNICEF launched a national monthly donor programme.

For the seventh year in a row, the Buena Onda (Good Vibe) social mobilization and fundraising campaign allowed us to share our work with Peruvians. We reached children and youth through the La Onda de mi Cole (My School Vibe) engagement initiative. Around 70,000 students made their voices heard on issues that matter to them: bullying, domestic violence, online safety and the environment.

UNICEF is well aware that girls are Perus most excluded children. To reverse this situation, we strive to make all of our programming gender-sensitive.

We conducted a study of IBE schools on the barriers that rural and indigenous girls face in accessing, staying in and finishing school. The results were captured in School of Silence. The documentary was originally pitched as a high-level advocacy tool, but quickly became our most-watched video on YouTube.

We ended the year by naming Marco Zunino a new national UNICEF Ambassador.

To our national, regional, provincial and district government partners; to our Ambassadors and friends of UNICEF; to children and adolescents; to our corporate partners and monthly donors and to the media: thank you for working together.

In the coming months my time at UNICEF will draw to a close. I leave with the satisfaction of having contributed to the creation of a new generation of Peruvians; a generation we call Generation i: the generation for whom the dream of inclusion and equal opportunities will become real.

Thank you for letting me be a part of this dream.

Paul MartinRepresentative in Peru

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Peru has prioritized comprehensive early childhood care. In 2014, UNICEF supported the Government of Peru in ensuring that pregnant women and children in the most excluded regions have access to quality and culturally relevant health services. We also assisted government efforts to reduce chronic malnutrition and anaemia, and to promote early childhood development.

UNICEF provided technical assistance for the National Plan for the Reduction of Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality. We participated in the development of a cross-sectoral early childhood development (ECD) policy Children First, led by the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS). We supported the Ministry of Health (MINSA) in implementing the Plan for the Reduction of Chronic Malnutrition and Anaemia 2014 2016, particularly in the regions where UNICEF works.

We generated evidence and initiatives for inclusion. In partnership with the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), we are developing a model for delivering maternal and child health services in remote areas of Cusco. Mobile health units provide gynaecological, dental and laboratory services to women and children in hard-to-reach communities.

We assisted in providing HIV testing and treatment to indigenous communities in Condorcanqui, Amazonas.

We supported efforts to strengthen national ECD programmes and promoted breast-feeding in public and private health institutions.

Through UNICEF Procurement Services, the Government of Peru acquired high quality, low-cost rapid HIV tests for pregnant women, syringes and HPV vaccines.

UNICEF in action

Peru universalized multi-micronutrient supplementation for children under the age of three. This strategy, promoted globally by UNICEF, is highly effective for the prevention and treatment of anaemia, which affects 52% of urban children and 44% of rural children in Peru.

Child Survival and Development

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Our work particularly focused on reducing inequality in access to quality education, by expanding educational opportunities for Perus most excluded children. All these actions are performed with the valuable support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada DFATD.

We provided technical assistance with a focus on increasing budgets to help expand access to pre-school in rural and bilingual communities through a non-school-based programme for children aged three to five years.

We helped improve the quality of pre-school education by contributing to the design and implementation of the Programme for Professional Training in Pre-Primary Intercultural Bilingual Education, including a framework for teachers in the Amazon.

We helped boost teacher performance in IBE primary schools. A total of 4,575 school directors and teachers in five regions have specialized in IBE.

We supported capacity building of instructors and students at higher education institutions that offer IBE programmes.

We promoted a gender-sensitive approach in the classroom by training 150 IBE trainers and developing a training toolkit.

We supported the Ministry of Education, regional education offices and local education management units in implementing IBE policy, strengthening cross-sectoral coordination to develop management models with a territorial focus. These efforts were undertaken in partnership with the Roundtable on Poverty Reduction, the National Education Council and the National Assembly of Regional Governments.

Quality and equitable education

UNICEF in action

We promoted the Child Friendly Schools (CFS) approach for indigenous children, through capacity building of regional and local education officials and specialists in five regions. In 2014, a CFS initiative developed by the District Municipality of Ccarhuayo in Cusco, with the support of UNICEF, received a national award for intercultural best practices in public management.

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UNICEF in action

In child protection, UNICEFs technical assistance focused on improving existing norms, generating knowledge of violence prevention strategies, and expa