This hardware will enable the most disadvantaged and marginalized children, youth and women in Nablus, Palestine to connect with old and new friends and resources beyond their city, which is encircled by military checkpoints.
It means better identifying bottlenecks that block our progress in the poorest areas – using approaches like cash transfers to enable the most disadvantaged to access services they cannot now reach or afford.
Social protection is a multi-sectoral approach, key to addressing child poverty and promoting more equitable growth by enabling the most disadvantaged and marginalised to access basic social services.
UNICEF urges that there is no better time than at the moment of its installation for the Government and its partners to reinvigorate their resolve, with new ideas and new action, to enable the most vulnerable children in the most disadvantaged communities to realise their rights to survive, develop, be protected and participate in decisions affecting them," he said.
We need a more holistic strategy, one that enables schools that serve the most disadvantaged children to meet their academic and social needs so that they can overcome a track record of failure.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg last week announced an early roll-out of free places in 10 areas to enable two-year-olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds to benefit from the free hours from this September, rather than September 2013, as previously planned.
We see it in Malawi, where social cash transfer programmes that target the most disadvantaged communities enable families not only to provide their children with basic necessities – like food – but also to send them to school.
Tom Flood, chief executive of BTCV, whose Green Gym programme is receiving health lottery money, says: "In these difficult economic times, these funds will help us reach some of the most disadvantaged people and enable them to turn their lives around".
The Japanese funding will enable UNICEF to focus its education programmes on those deemed to be the most disadvantaged, remote and difficult to reach children in DarfurThe Japanese funding will enable UNICEF to focus its education programmes on those deemed to be the most disadvantaged, remote and difficult to reach children in Darfur.
Contributed with no restrictions on their use, these funds enable UNICEF and its partners to help all children, especially the most disadvantaged, to survive and grow to their full potential.
