"There's a real growing understanding that it's actually not a good thing to institutionalize children, and that we need to provide multi-sectoral services at a family level".
Being one of the first countries to respond to Pakistan's emergency, the Government of Japan's funds will be used to support the provision of multi-sectoral services on ground, benefiting 2.3 million people, 60 per cent of whom are children.
To date, UNICEF and its partners have: Gender-Based Violence: Main forms of violence UNICEF response to Gender-Based Violence is built on increasing quality of multi-sectoral services to Gender-Base Violence survivors and on strengthening prevention to address negative copying including survival sex and early marriages.
Through this multi sectoral approach, UNICEF funds survivors' access to services and supports capacity building of service providers to ensure appropriate care.
GBV prevention The prevention of GBV has been identified as a major gap in addressing GBV in the current humanitarian crisis despite the multi-sectoral response services being set up by UNICEF and other key actors.. To address this gap, UNICEF has established partnerships with local and international NGOs.
Effective HIV prevention often results from a multi-sectoral package of services[ 33- 36], and infections prevented for a given level of intervention coverage vary among countries depending on local HIV incidence rates and transmission modes.
That study helped to identify important components (such as decentralisation of health care services, multi-sectoral interventions and mobilisation of the patient population) of national HIV programmes which, at the time, had not been subject to extensive research and which informed the focus of two subsequent studies.
Facility providers indicated that they saw new multi-sectoral involvement and increased service utilization.
Consequently, the care of individuals with FASD frequently requires a life-time of services from multi-sectoral medical and non-medical providers or agencies that do not frequently meet or plan a coordinated continuum of care.> Health Canada describes FASD as a national public health, education, economic and societal concern [ 13].
Around 500,000 orphans and vulnerable children were supported with multi-sectoral programmes that improved access to services, participation and enjoyment of basic rights.
Therefore, the fact that inequalities in wealth and education of the mother are the main drivers of inequities in the percentage of births attended by skilled health personnel implies that policy interventions for addressing inequalities in access to child delivery services should be multi-sectoral in line with the principles of the Primary health Care.
