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Country : Honduras
Summary : Consulting Development of a Communication Strategy for the Promotion and Guarantee of Rights of Children
Deadline : 24 Oct 2018
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Notice Type : Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 27518748
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Competition : ICB
Financier : United Nations Secretariat
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Tender Value : Refer Document
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Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND
4to. Piso Casa de las Naciones Unidas Avenida República de Panamà Colonia Palmira
Tegucigalpa,
Honduras
Email :contratos_honduras@unicef.org
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Tenders are invited for Consulting Development of a Communication Strategy for the Promotion and Guarantee of Rights of Children in Honduras.
BACKGROUND
Situation of the Rights of Children in Honduras
According to the latest estimates of the Central Bank of Honduras, in 2017 the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Honduras will grow from 3.7% to 4.1%, one of the highest rates of growth in Central America [1]. On the other hand, the proportion of families living in poverty has decreased in the last five years. In 2012 66.5% of Honduran households were living in poverty [2], this percentage has decreased to 60.9% in 2016 [3].
Despite the achievements in terms of economic growth and reduction of poverty and homicides, Honduras still has challenges to face. In order to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty and meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), child poverty must be reduced, still an obstacle to full development: data from 2013 show that poverty in Honduras affects the most children and adolescents (78.3%) than adults (64.1%) [4].
The total amount of Public Investment in Children and Adolescents made by the Honduran State during 2016, reached L. 31, 750.22 million (US $ 1, 355.7 million), suffering a reduction of L. 411.9 million compared to the amount of 2013. Participation of this investment in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 6.5% in 2016, also showing a decrease with respect to the participation of 2013 that was 8.5% [5].
The most recent national health data indicate that the neonatal mortality rate (less than 28 days) is 17.5 per 1, 000 live births. On the other hand, infant mortality (under one year) went from 25 per 1, 000 live births in 2006 to 24 per 1, 000 live births in 2012 and the mortality of children (under 5 years old) decreased from 32 per 1, 000 births alive in 2006 to 29 in 2012 [6]. Likewise, 23% of children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition, although this average hides disparities that affect children in rural areas and indigenous children more. 28.8% of children in rural areas suffer from chronic malnutrition and in predominantly indigenous departments such as Intibucá and Lempira, this proportion almost doubles the national average (48.2% and 47.6%, respectively) [7].
Around 44% of children between 3 and 17 years of age were out of the school system in 2014. Boys and girls from the groups with the highest level of exclusion from education coverage are those who live in the rural area (48.7% ), those between 3 and 5 years old (65.0%), adolescents between 12 and 14 years old (55.1%) and those between 15 and 17 years old (74.6%) [8]. The main cause of non-attendance to the third cycle of basic education is the lack of economic resources (46%) [9]. Regarding the quality of the learning, there has been an improvement in the average performance in reading of sixth grade students, which went from 63% in 2008 to 70% in 2013. Likewise, the average performance in mathematics of students of sixth grade, went from 34% in 2008 to 57% in 2013 [10].
Children in Honduras suffer multiple forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and abandonment. It should be noted, however, that the Observatory of Violence has recorded a decrease in homicides of children and adolescents in the country. Between 2013 and 2015 the number of homicides of this population has dropped from 513 to 403 [11]. According to the Observatory of Violence, the homicide rate against children from 0 to 18 years old reached 15.9 per 100, 000 children (627 homicides) in 2014, of which 70% were committed against adolescents from 16 to 18 years old and 83% were against boys. Reports of sexual abuse reached 1, 980 cases of fiscal requirements in 2014, of which 91% were of girls under 18 years of age. On the other hand the 14. 7% of female adolescents aged 15 to 19 say they have suffered physical violence at home. In 49% of these cases violence came from the father or mother and another 25% from the partner [12].
According to data from the National Information Center of the Social Sector (CENISS), in 2016, 10, 612 migrant children and adolescents returned. The majority were adolescents (58.5%); followed by children from 0 to 6 years old considered as early childhood (26.3 %%); and finally, children from 6 to 12 years old represented 15.1% of returned children. 66.1% of the returnees are children and the remaining 33.8% are girls.
The main cities where Honduran girls and boys migrate are precisely those used in the route of transit, purchase and distribution of drugs, specifically cocaine. 41.3% of the returned children traveled unaccompanied and almost all of this population traveled by land. 91% of the total were returned from Mexico and 7.9% were returned from the United States.
Guarantee System for the Rights of Children and Adolescents
Historically, efforts to protect children in conditions of greater disadvantage have focused on particular situations or unique problems, such as child labor, sexual exploitation, migrant children, street children. This type of approach can segment the response and ignore that the underlying and structural causes of exclusions often overlap. Recently, we have moved towards a more systemic approach to the protection of children. This approach calls for more comprehensive responses that place the child at the center of state action and require better coordination between institutions.
With the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the States Parties are committed to respect, promote and protect the rights of children. In this sense, the ratification of the Convention implies the commitment of the State Party with the enactment of laws, the establishment of coordination and monitoring bodies, the formulation and application of appropriate policies, services and programs aimed at guaranteeing effective compliance with the rights of children.
A National System for Guaranteeing the Rights of Children is the set of bodies, entities, mechanisms and bodies at the national, regional and local levels aimed at respecting, promoting, protecting, restoring and restoring the rights of children and repairing the damage before the violation of the same ones established by the national laws of childhood.
The development and strengthening of a National System of Rights Guarantee is fundamental for the exercise of children's rights. Every Child Rights Guarantee System must have at least the following elements and actors that are essential for a quality operation: i) adequate policies, legislations and regulations; ii) structures defined and articulated with appropriate and clearly defined functions and capacities; iii) effective promotion, prevention and response; iv) data collection systems; v) participation of civil society and community actors including, of course, boys and girls.
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