Kutaisi to join Child-Friendly Cities Initiative, signs memorandum of cooperation with UNICEF
The memorandum defines specific actions that should be implemented in order for Kutaisi to be included in the list of the child-friendly cities. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Kutaisi City Hall and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have signed a memorandum of cooperation, by which Kutaisi will join the Child-Friendly Cities Initiative.
The memorandum defines specific actions that should be implemented in order for Kutaisi to be included in the list of the child-friendly cities.
We are glad that Kutaisi joins the Child-Friendly Cities Initiative by signing MoC w/ UNICEF. The MoC will be followed by action plan to gain a "child-friendly" status.
— UNICEF Georgia (@unicefgeorgia) September 30, 2020
CFCI is a local government system, where the needs and rights of children are part of policy & decision making. pic.twitter.com/EwBxL0gjSz
The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) is a UNICEF-led initiative that supports municipal governments in realizing the rights of children at the local level using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as its foundation,” says the UNICEF website.
The memorandum was signed by Acting Mayor of Kutaisi Davit Eremeishvili and UNICEF Representative in Georgia Ghassan Khalil.
Under this memorandum, we have a responsibility to uphold the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,” said Eremeishvili.
Congratulation to Kutaisi on decision to join UNICEF’s Child-Friendly Cities Initiative. Glad children will become part of policy & decision-making. UNICEF is glad to support Kutaisi to become child-friendly. pic.twitter.com/FiSGassJWz
— Ghassan Khalil (@GKUNICEF) September 30, 2020
Over 3,000 cities of more than 40 countries are involved in this initiative.
The initiative was launched in 1996 by UNICEF and the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat).