Joining hands to create a brighter future for Oman

Joining hands to create a brighter future for Oman

Muscat: Three key steps to improve the quality of children and youth development in the Sultanate of Oman are to be implemented by 2025, in collaboration with the UNICEF. The three outcomes include strengthened evidence-based policies for children; enhanced systems and services for children, and young people; and improved programme effectiveness. These plans have been laid out in Oman's Country Programme Document, drafted by UNICEF Oman, and have been approved by UNICEF's Executive Board. Programme priorities include early childhood development; aid to children with disabilities; protection of children from violence; innovative financing for children; evidence generation with a focus on child-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators; and youth and adolescents, according to UNICEF Oman. The first outcome of stronger evidence-based policies, based on along with better public finance analysis and data, can be used to devise better social policies for children, adolescents and young people, and to progress towards the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. A key indicator for this outcome includes the monitoring of at least 80 per cent of child-related SDG indicators by 2025, with evidence to be collected through surveys or administrative data. Under this outcome, the data on children must also be separated by governorate