Child-friendly budget demanded
Dhaka, May 15 (UNB) – Speakers at a programme here on Tuesday urged the government to formulate the upcoming national budget child-friendly to improve their economic condition and protect their rights.
Addressing a views-exchange meeting titled ‘Investing in Children: An Avenue to Materialise the Goals of Vision 2021’, they also stressed for investing more for children and keeping separate sector for them in the budget.
Save the Children, Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID), and Department of Development Studies of Dhaka University jointly organised the programme at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU).
Raunak Jahan, chairperson of Department of Development Studies of DU, Shamsul Alam Bakul, Deputy Director of Save the Children, Khandaker Jahurul Alam, executive director of (CSID), among others, spoke at the meeting.
Kazi Maruful Islam, teacher of Development Studies of
DU, presented the keynote paper.
They said there is an urgent need for a separate chapter on children in the national budget to reflect their interests and demands and ensure their rights.
Children account for over 40 percent of the total population, and half of them live under poverty line, which is a potential risk to materialise the vision 2021, as well as achieve the commitment under National Child Policy 2011, the speakers said.
A separate chapter on children in the national budget will help the government integrate children’s demands with the resources supply through synchronising individual ministry programmes. This will also assist in the medium- to long-term development of effective service delivery in response to children’s needs and rights, they added.
Addressing a views-exchange meeting titled ‘Investing in Children: An Avenue to Materialise the Goals of Vision 2021’, they also stressed for investing more for children and keeping separate sector for them in the budget.
Save the Children, Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID), and Department of Development Studies of Dhaka University jointly organised the programme at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU).
Raunak Jahan, chairperson of Department of Development Studies of DU, Shamsul Alam Bakul, Deputy Director of Save the Children, Khandaker Jahurul Alam, executive director of (CSID), among others, spoke at the meeting.
Kazi Maruful Islam, teacher of Development Studies of
DU, presented the keynote paper.
They said there is an urgent need for a separate chapter on children in the national budget to reflect their interests and demands and ensure their rights.
Children account for over 40 percent of the total population, and half of them live under poverty line, which is a potential risk to materialise the vision 2021, as well as achieve the commitment under National Child Policy 2011, the speakers said.
A separate chapter on children in the national budget will help the government integrate children’s demands with the resources supply through synchronising individual ministry programmes. This will also assist in the medium- to long-term development of effective service delivery in response to children’s needs and rights, they added.
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