Moldovan PM, representative of UN Children's Fund in Moldova discuss priorities of new UNICEF country programme

Chisinau, 26 July /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today had a meeting with representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Moldova Nune Mangasaryan, who ends her mandate in Moldova. On this occasion, the PM thanked the official for her personal contribution to working out the strategy of child’s protection, of justice reformation, public health. The strategy was approved by parliament last week and is to be implemented, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

Pavel Filip highlighted that statistic data speak about the results of the work of Mrs. Nune Mangasaryan too. Thus, on the period of her mandate, the number of children from residential institutions has dropped five-fold, as a result of the justice sector reform, the number of detained children decreased three-fold, while the number of children with special needs and disabilities, who study in general schools, increased four-fold.     

For her part, Nune Mangasaryan said that these results had become possible due to the country programme signed between UNICEF and the Moldovan government. The official thanked PM Filip for personal involvement in the enhancement of the protection of child’s rights in Moldova. The UNICEF representative informed that, in next September, a new country programme for 2018-2022 is to be approved. The programme will have at its basis two priorities: ensuring sensitive and fair services for children and social changes in the children’s rights.  

In the context, the prime minister welcomed the elaboration of the new UNICEF country programme, which is brought in line with the Moldova-UN Partnership Framework for Sustainable Development. Pavel Filip gave assurances that the government would to its utmost to ensure a good implementation of the UN sustainable development goals.   

In the end, Pavel Filip wished success to Mrs. Nune Mangasaryan in her new position at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, from where she will patronize our geographical region. Filip voiced confidence that Mangasaryan would be a faithful ambassador and friend of Moldova.   

Presently, there are nine projects underway in Moldova, financed and implemented by the UNICEF Representation in 2013-2017, with an overall sum of commitments worth 6.71 million euros.