CHILDREN'S AGENDA AND SDGs

Campaign on ‘Advocacy on children’s agenda with respect to SDGs in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana’

For so long the issues of children have been neglected by the policy makers. Hence, Mahita with the support of UNICEF has initiated a project to bring forth the issues of children to the policy makers. Under the network of Alliance for Child Rights, a consortium of NGOs working on the issues of children. Mahita has been implementing the project in three districts of Andhra Pradesh and in six districts of Telangana state.

 In the year 2018-19, the campaign was implemented by Andhra Pradesh Alliance for Child Rights and Telangana Alliance for Child Rights in their respective state among 18 mandals of 9 districts (each district two mandals), engaging 720 childrren/adolescents between the age group of 10-18 years. As part of the campaign, the children/adolescents were oriented on the first SIX goals of the SDGs. This has helped them to discuss among themselves and idnetify issues classified under Education, Health, Equality and Protecction to be hindering their growth as well as the growth of the state. Children have submitted the issues to all major political parties and contesting politicians in both the states and requested them to make these issues as part of their election manifesto.