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Annual
report 2011
Regional Interagency Task Team on Children and AIDS - Eastern
and Southern Africa (RIATT-ESA)
September 01, 2012
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RIATT-ESA
is a unique, multi-sectoral partnership of organisations focusing
on the care and support for children affected by AIDS in eastern
and southern Africa. RIATT- ESA was formed in 2006 between
regional, political and economic bodies, civil society organisations,
academia, donors and UN agencies, in response to the Global Partners
Forum recommendations to set up Regional Interagency Task Teams
on Children. RIATT- ESA works to support the UNGASS declaration
of commitment to the universal access for children to prevention,
care, treatment and support in the context of HIV and AIDS, by harnessing
the power of a multi-sectoral joint response within the eastern
and southern African region.
Creating change
for children
- Children's
vulnerability needs to be better understood. We need to identify
more clearly how being affected by AIDS makes a child vulnerable
and how it links to other challenges for children, their families
and communities in the region.
- We need to
support the family and the community to care for their children.
Protection, care and support for children affected by AIDS means
enabling the family and community to ensure the well-being of
their children more easily, by increasing the flow of resources
and support to this level.
- HIV-sensitive
social protection frameworks for children and their families helps
improve lives. By providing a broad range of family targeted social
services, including cash grants, children affected by AIDS of
all ages benefit from improved protection, care and support.
- Children's
rights need to be ensured and children must be protected from
violence, abuse, exploitation and other kinds of harm. Resources
that target HIV and AIDS can also engender responses from a number
of sectors such as social services, health and legislation, which
can help protect children.
- Children
are not all the same. Children require different types of support,
care and protection depending on their ages and genders. Regional
information about and learning around this needs to be increased.
Policies and programmes need to take this learning into account.
- We need
to listen to children. Making decisions about how to improve children's
wellbeing requires listening to children's opinions and
supporting their efforts to participate.
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