who is a child? a child is every human being below the age of 18 years unless, national laws...

Who is a child?

A child is every human being below the age of 18 years unless, national laws recognize the age of majority earlier – (CRC, Article 1)

What are the Rights of the Child?

To be born. To have a name and nationality.

To be free. To have a family who will take care of me.

To have a good education.

To develop my potentials.

To have enough food, shelter, a healthy and active body.

To be given the opportunity for play and leisure.

What are the Rights of the Child? To be given protection against abuse,

danger and violence brought by war and conflict.

To be given the opportunity for play and leisure.

To be given protection against abuse, danger and violence brought by war and conflict.

To live in a peaceful community.

To be defended and assisted by the government.

To be able to express own views.

What is the What is the Convention on the Convention on the Rights of the Rights of the Child?Child?

. is an international instrument of law that defines the comprehensive sets of rights that ALL children must enjoy. State parties should ensure that all appropriate measures are undertaken to ensure enjoyment of child rights

1990

The Convention on the

Rights of the Child

Basic Principles

•Best Interest of the Child

•Right to life, survival and development

•Non-discrimination

•Right to participation

• Survival,• Development,

• Protection,• and Participation.

Categories

Survival Rights

Every child has the inherent right to life, and the State has an obligation to

ensure the child’s survival and development. They include rights to

adequate food, shelter, clean water, and primary health care.

Development Rights

These are rights to the resources, skills and contributions necessary for the full development of the child. They include rights to formal education, leisure and

recreation, cultural activities and information.

Protection Rights

These rights include protection from all forms of child abuse, neglect,

exploitation and cruelty, including the right to special protection in times of war and protection from abuse in the

criminal justice system.

Participation Rights

Children are entitled to the freedom to express opinions and to have a say in

matters affecting their social, economic, religious, cultural and political life. Participation rights

include the right to express opinions and be heard, the right to information

and freedom of association.

SITUATIONER

ON FILIPINO CHILDREN

Photo by: Tina Marie de Leon

Council for the Welfare of Children

Population

88.57 M Filipinos (Census 2007) - 44,608,300 or 48.0% male - 44,098,000 or 52.0% female

39.22 M or 43.4% are 0-17 years old* *using NSO’s medium assumption for annual growth rate

2.04 (1995-2007) Population Growth Rate (PGR)

(Source: NSO)

Photo by: Salvador Maya, Jr.

Population

One in three births (36%) in the Philippines is unplanned

- 16% unwanted or 20% mistimed - more likely to occur among

older - women than younger women

Source: 2008 National Demographic and Health Survey

27.62 million of population are poor 4.68 million poor families

(Source: NSCB, 2006 data on poverty incidence)

Photo by: Salvador Maya, Jr.

Maternal mortality rate

162 per 100,000 live births(Source: NSO-2006 Family Planning Survey)

Source: NSO-2008 National Demographic and Health Survey

Health

Photo by: CWC Secretariat

Neonatal mortality rate

16 per 1,000 live births

Postneonatal mortality rate


Under five mortality 34 per 1,000 live births


Health

Child mortality rate 9 per 1,000 children surviving to 12 months of age

Infant mortality rate


86% of households have access to drinking water

Regions

86 8592

84 87 8493

73

8492

8681

0

91 9385

56

0102030405060708090

100

Regions

Source: 2007 Field Health Information Services

Clean Water and Sanitation

78% of households have access to sanitary toilet


Regions

78 79 7886 87 84 82

69 66

8576

71

0

79 79 76

28

81

0102030405060708090

100

Regions

Clean Water and Sanitation

7 in ten or 70% Filipino children age 12-23 months received all the basic vaccinations

- 82% coverage in urban areas - 77% coverage in rural areas - vaccination coverage increases w/ mother’s education - highest for first births (85%) & lowest for sixth and higher births (64%)

Immunized Children

Source: NSO- 2008 National Demographic and Health Survey

Delivery Care

- 44% of births in the Philippines occurs in health facilities 27% in a public facility 18% in a private facility

- 56% of births are still delivered at home - 62% of births are assisted by a health professional


Health

Prenatal and Postnatal Care

- 1.01 M or 64.8% pregnant women w/ 3 or more pre-natal visits - 951,837 or 61.4% pregnant women with 4 or more prenatal visits - 1.90 M or 60.1% pregnant women given TT2 plus - 1.88 M or 69.4% post-partum women with at least 1 postpartum visit


Health

88% children born in the Philippines are breastfed

- one-third under six months are exclusively breastfed (NSO- 2008 NDHS)

- prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding infants under 6 months has remained at 34% (NSO and ORC Macro, 2004)

Nutrition

Vitamin A and Iodized Oil Capsule

- 1.93 M or 74.1% children (9-11 months) given vitamin A - 7.45 M or 73.8% children (12-59 months) given vitamin A - 1.61 M or 59.2% lactating mother given vitamin A - 76,526 or 0.4% women (15-49) given Iodized Oil Capsule


Nutrition

Education

Early Childhood Education

50% of the total DCCs (46,752) and DCWs (46,666) were accredited

- No. of DCWs is less than the number of total DCCs 1,537,485 or 23.16% children aged 3-5 years old served in DCCs

Source: DSWD (CY 2008)



Source: DepEd, SY 2008-2009

Education

Early Childhood Education Pre-school Enrolment aged 4-5 years

old Public - 746,448 Private - 428,653 Total - 1,175,101 (596,014 male & 579,087 female)

24.69% Gross Enrolment ratio (GER) - 24.42% Male - 24.97% female




Grade 1 Enrolment

Public - 2,775,411 Private - 202,166 Total - 2,977,577 (1,600,308 male & 1,377,269 female)

Percentage of Grade 1 Pupils with Early Childhood Development Programs

- 64.62% (Male is 63.83% and Female is 65.54%)


Primary Education Enrolment (all ages)

Public - 12.57 million

Private - 1.11 million Total - 13.69 million (7.08 million male & 6.61 million female)


Elementary Education

Torres High School

Dale Erispe, Darwin Erispe, Raymond Manuel

Primary Education Enrolment (6-11 years old)

is 11.42 million

Elementary Education

Participation Rate Total: 85.12%

Male: 84.56%

Female: 85.71%

Cohort survival Rate Total: 75.39%

Male: 71.54%

Female: 79.68%

Completion Rate Total: 73.28%

Male: 69.13%

Female:77.89%

Dropout Rate Total: 6.02%

Male: 7.07%

Female: 4.87%

Performance Indicators:


Among the top performing regions are IV-A, ARMM AND NCR.


The graph shows that out of a group of 100 pupils that enrolled in first grade, 75% reach the sixth grade in SY 2008-2009.

Cohort Survival Rate in Primary EducationSY 2002-2003 to 2008-2009

0

20

40

60

80

100

Min 47.62 31.03 35.70 36.21 33.90 45.47 40.75

Max 86.80 85.56 86.79 86.83 89.71 87.84 87.51

Phil 72.44 71.84 71.32 70.02 73.43 75.26 75.39

2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009


Secondary Education

Secondary Education Enrolment (all ages)

Public - 5.17 million

Private - 1.33 million Total - 6.51 million ( 3.18 million male & 3.33 million female) Secondary Education Enrolment (12-15 years old) is 4.95 million


Secondary Education

Participation Rate Total: 61.91%

Male: 57.35%

Female: 66.57%

Cohort survival Rate Total: 79.91%

Male: 75.21%

Female: 84.50%

Completion Rate Total: 75.37%

Male: 70.15%

Female: 80.47%

Dropout Rate Total: 7.45%

Male: 9.33%

Female: 5.59%

Performance Indicators:


The top performing regions in terms of NER for the secondary level are NCR, IV-A, and II while ARMM showed the lowest.


Cohort survival rate in secondary level registered at 79.7% in SY 2008-2009, an increase of 2.7% points from SY 2002-2003.

Cohort Survival Rate in Secondary Education SY 2002-2003 to 2008-2009

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

Min 65.7 66.5 61.1 53.5 41.3 73.2 69.8

Max 85.0 83.6 85.3 76.8 85.4 86.5 86.2

Phil 77.0 77.7 78.1 67.3 77.3 79.9 79.7

2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009


In 2006, the primary education system posted the biggest reduction in dropout rate and tapering to 5% level until 2008.

Secondary dropout rate is historically higher than that of primary education. In 2005, the incidence of dropout suddenly rose to an alarming double digit figure of 12.51%. The following year, the system posted a sudden improvement to 8% level, which continued to the following year and settled to 7% level in 2008.


Education

Literacy Rate: 62 million Filipinos 10 years old

or over

- 93.40% basically literate or 9 out of 10 Filipinos

- 84.10% functionally literate

- basic and functional literacy rates are higher

among females than among males

Source: NSO- 2003 FLEMMS

Education

Pupil/Student-Teacher Ratios

- 35.56 for elementary - 38.96 for secondary

Classroom-Pupil/Student Ratios

- 38.82 for elementary

- 55.88 for secondary


Education

Non-instructional rooms

- 9,280 elementary school libraries

- 3,981 secondary school libraries

- 4,766 elementary school clinics

- 1,332 secondary school clinics

Pupil/Student-Toilet Bowl Ratios in Government

- 50.37 for elementary

- 98.89 for secondarySource: DepEd, SY 2008-2009

Children in Need of Special Protection

Children in need of special protection are children who are: in hazardous &

exploitative labor on the streets victims of sexual

abuse & commercial exploitation

victims of family violence & neglect

separated from or have lost their parents

in conflict with the law in situation of armed

conflict with various forms of

disability girl children in cultural

communities HIV/AIDS

25.308 M children aged 5-17 years old 2.1 M or 8.4% working children

- 1.376 M or 10.7% (boys) - 752,00 or 6.0% (girls) - 39.7% of the total population of working children are elementary undergraduates. - 4 out of every 10 working children did not finish elementary

Source: Labor Force Survey (LFS), January 2005.National Statistics Office (NSO)

Child Labour

Northern Mindanao – highest in working children (324,000 or 25.5%)

Easterm Visayas – second highest in working children (221,000 or 15.6%)

Regions

8.4

2.1

8.95.5

10.7

4.5 3.6

11.2 118.6 7.6

15.6

10.1

25.5

9.2 8.8 89.9

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Regions

Source: NSO- Labor Force Survey (LFS), January 2005

National estimate – 44,435

- 22 major cities - 22,556

- Metro Manila - 11,346

Source: Ours to Protect and Nurture(edited by Dr. Exaltacion Lamberte)

Street Children

6,425 total cases served by the DSWD in 2008 (from 7,044 in 2007)

Child Abuse

Types of Abuse Total no. of cases served

1. Abandoned 986

2. Neglected 1970

3. Sexually Abused

3.1 Rape

3.2 Incest

3.3 Acts of Lasciviousness

2,300

1,364

769

167

4. Sexually Exploited

4.1 Victims of Prostitution

4.2 Victims of Pedophilia

4.3 Victims of Pornography

4.4 Victims of Cyber Pornography

179

112

52

4

11

Source: PDPB-DSWD

Child Abuse

Types of Abuse Total no. of cases served

5. Physically Abused/Maltreated 647

6. Victims of Child Labor 136

7. Victims of Illegal Recruitment 16

8. Victims of Child Trafficking 168

9. Emotionally Abused 23

Source: PDPB-DSWD

Children in Conflict with the Law Statistics (As of 2nd Quareter 2009)

REGION BJMP Provincial Jail PNP DSWD (NRCY)

LGU Youth Centers

NGOs TOTAL

I 10 23 62 95

II 1 15 26 42

III 1 58 23 141 81 304

IV-A 26 11 13 140 190

IV-B 3 14 6 23 46

V 8 10 21 222 14 259

VII 64 7 175 336 362 944

VIII 12 8 61 81

IX 25 107 96 228

X 48 1 117 151 317

XI 1 277 109 387

XII 12 8 65 135 55 275

CARAGA 18 33 38 89

CAR 6 5 65 11 87

NCR 43 122 12 690 50 917

Bucor 347

TOTAL 290 132 1,031 1,663 690 573 4,706

Source: Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council

Profile of children inconflict with the law:

usually male between the ages of 14-17 has low educational attainment belongs to large, low-earning family of six members charged with property-related crimes use drugs and alcohol has stopped schooling

an estimate of 30,000-50,000

children ‘displaced by

armed conflict’ every year

for during the last past 4

years

Note: Based on reports from combined sources-- DSWD, DND, AFP

and NGOs

Children in Situations of Armed Conflict

Vanessa Gregorio

Caloocan City Science High School

Children in Various Circumstances of Disability

942,098 Persons with disability (70% were found in rural and remote areas)

191,680 children with disabilities more boys than girls with disabilities

(103,435 males and 88,245 females) 10–14 age group has the highest

disability prevalence rate per 100,000 population

most common forms of impairment are hearing & visual impairment

Data source: 2000 CensusPhoto by: CWC Secretariat

Child Trafficking

Source: 2001-2006 Academy for Educational Development (www.humantrafficking.org)

Estimated 20,000-50,000 Philippine

and foreign child victims in the

Philippines

trafficked for labor and sexual

exploitation

Philippine is a transit country for victim

trafficked from China

Philippines has internal trafficking of children:

from rural areas (particularly Visayas and Mindanao)

to urban areas (e.g. Metro Manila, Cebu for sexual exploitation or forced labor or domestic workers, factory workers, or in the drug trade)

Source: 2001-2006 Academy for Educational Development (www.humantrafficking.org)

Child Trafficking

Data source: National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP); 3rd and 4th CRC Country Periodic Report


Of the total 12 million population of IPs, approximately 5.1 million are 18 years old and below

Children in Cultural Communities

Profile:

live in remote areas usually accessible only by foot have limited access to basic social services often suffer from discrimination and neglect

Source: National Epidemiology Center, DOH

HIV/AIDS

Demographic Data Oct. 2009

Jan.-Oct. 2009

Cumulative Data:

1984-2009

Total Reported Cases

Asymptomatic Cases

AIDS Cases

Males

Females

Youth 15-24yo

Children <15yo

Reported Deaths due to AIDS

80

76

4

67

13

16

0

0

629

604

25

546

83

161

2

1

4,218

3,390

828

3,046*

1,161*

667

52

318

*Note: No data available on sex for eleven (11) cases.

Child Participation


At national Level - CWC Child Representatives - Child Commissioners from CBS-NAPC - NaCCAP Officers and Members

At Local Level - Sangguniang Kabataan - Child Representatives - LCPC

Both government and civil society are more aware of need to involve children on matters affecting their Lives……..

Local Council for the Protection of Children

80.71% organized LCPC and 11.93% functional BCPCs nationwide (DILG report, as of Sept. 2009)

- 40.54% or 30 ideal (functional) PCPCs out

of 74 Provinces

- 33.33% or 40 Ideal cities out of 120 cities;

- 18.61% or 260 out of 1,397 municipalities;

- 11.93% or4,718 Ideal BCPCs out of the

39,535 barangays

Note: Data given does not include the LGUs in ARMM

1987 Constitution Family Code of the Philippines Presidential Decree 603 (1974) R.A. 7610 of 1993 or Special Protection of Children Against Child Abuse R.A. 8172 of 1995 or ASIN Law R.A. 8370 of 1997 or Children’s Television Act R.A. 8296 - 06 June 1997 (An Act every Sunday of December as the National Children’s Broadcasting Day)

Government Response

Policy & Legislative Initiatives

R.A. 8369 – 28 October 1997 (An Act Establishing Family Courts , granting the Exclusive Original Jurisdiction over Child and Family cases. R.A. 8980 of 2000 or ECCD Act R.A. 8972 of 2000 or the Solo Parents’ Act R.A. 9208 or Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003


Government Response

R.A. 9231 – 19 December 2003 (An Act Providing for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Affording Stronger Protection for the working child 1987 Constitution R.A. 9255 of 2003 or An Act allowing illegitimate children to use the surname of their father, amending for the purpose Article 176 of E.O No. 209 R.A. 9262 or Anti-Violence Against Women and their children Act of 2004


Government Response

R.A. 9288 of 2004 or An Act promulgating a Comprehensive Policy and a National System for Ensuring Newborn Screening R.A. 9344 or Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 R.A. 9523 of 2009 or An Act Requiring the Certification of the DSWD to declare a “Child legally available for Adoption” R.A. 9775, also known as the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 R.A. 9858 of 2009 (Legitimization of Children

Born to Underage Parents


Government Response

Pre- and Post-Natal Program Child-Friendly Hospitals Newborn screening (NBS) Integrated Management of Childhood Diseases Immunization Program Early Identification of children’s illness Mother Baby Friendly Initiatives Vitamin A, Iron, & Zinc Supplementation Food Fortification Program Supplementary Feeding Program Formula 1 and MNCHN

Health and Nutrition

Education

Project REACH (Reaching All Children) DepEd Pre-school Program Feeding Program Drop-out Reduction Program (DORP) Expansion of GASTPE coverage Computerization Program Basic Madrasah Education Program Every Child A Reader Program (ECARP) Child Friendly School System (CFSS)

Education

Early Childhood Care & Development Services Education for All Basic Literacy Program Adopt-a-School Program Multi-Grade System Alternative Learning System Informal Education for OSY DepEd’s SPED (special education) reaching

more children with special needs in elementary

& high school

Protection

Sagip Bata Manggagawa National Project on Street Children

Night Care for Young Children Day Care Centers Pag-aaral ng bata para sa Kinabukasan Comprehensive Peace Process Reintegration and rehabilitation

programmes Emergency Operation Philippines-

Assistance to Conflict-Affected Mindanao Food for Education

Child Care and Placement for Abandoned and Orphaned Children

Inter-country Adoption Placement Services

After Care Services Direct Social Services Rehabilitation Program for Street

Children Recovering from Substance Abuse using the modified Social Stress Model (MSSM)

Case Management Tool for Children Recovering from Substance Abuse

Protection

Children and Women’s Desks in Police Stations

Support for Victims/Witnesses of Trafficking in Human Beings

Half-Way Home Focus on IP and Muslim children Parent Effectiveness

Service/ERPAT Pantawid sa Pamilyang Pilipino

Program (4Ps) Comprehensive Program for Child

Protection

Protection

Other responses:

DSWD Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran provided capital seed to 42,577 families (with Php 112,897,000.00 released)

591 Tindahan Natin Outlets established benefiting 147,750 families (costing: Php 7,989,668.00, 1st Sem. 2009)

692,798 households benefited from Cash assistance through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), (costing: Php 7,271,691,000.00, June 2009)

Other responses:

496,709 children benefited in 13,764 day care centers in 495 LGUs

DSWD center-based services served a total of 5,184 clients (abandoned & neglected children, street children, CICL, PWDs, elder persons, girl and women in especially difficult circumstances and persons with special needs (March 2009)

DSWD Community-based services to 51,252 individuals, including 29,324 Children in Need of Special Protection

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