The presentation discusses child protection and addresses the need to protect children from conflict, violence, abuse, and exploitation as outlined in the Millennium Declaration of 2000. It notes that child protection intersects with achieving the Millennium Development Goals and reducing poverty, increasing school enrollment, eliminating gender inequality, and reducing child mortality. One of the key challenges mentioned is strengthening the evidence base around child protection due to the secretive nature of issues like violence, abuse, exploitation, and trafficking that makes reliable data difficult for governments to obtain.

1. A
Presentation on Child Protection
Prepared by,
Vankar Vijay P
12MBA113

2. Introduction
• The Millennium Declaration of 2000 explicitly addresses the
need to protect children from conflict, violence, abuse and
exploitation.
• Child Protection intersects with every one of the MDGs –
from poverty reduction to getting children into school, from
eliminating gender inequality to reducing child mortality.
• The strengthening of evidence base in the area of child
protection is one of the key challenges.
• The very nature of the different aspects of child protection
such as violence, abuse, exploitation and trafficking which
thrive on illegality and secrecy etc. makes it difficult for the
government to collect reliable data.

9. References
• ‘State of the World’s Children’ Report 2010:
UNICEF
• Computed using NFHS 2005-06 and Census
2001
• http://www.childinfo.org/newborncare.html

10. Thank you…