Child Right Protection: UNICEF Discusses Partnership Opportunities With Bloggers

Organised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Civic Education, MINJEC, and the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, some 17 participants, most of them members of the Association des Blogueurs du Cameroun, ABC, were on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 briefed on UNICEF’s key activities in promoting the rights of children.

The session in Yaounde’s Mansel Hotel, which was facilitated by Philemon Arouna, Communication Officer with UNICEF Cameroon, touched on key advocacy areas such as birth registration, malnutrition, vaccination and reimagining a better world for each child. All this as part of UNICEF Cameroon’s 2018-2020 programme, which has been extended to 2021 because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Arouna made presentations on UNICEF’s key advocacy areas and the worldwide campaign on a better world for children by asking them what world they would want to see. While Dr Kateryna Shalayeva, Gender Programme Officer with UNICEF Cameroon, talked on child protection, equality and equity of sexes. Both sides later explored the possibility of ABC members making ...