CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS, PRESENT AND FUTURE

ANNUAL REPORT 2015 PERÚ CHILDREN ARE THE PRESENT AND FUTURE Childhood is the time when we plant seeds with the hope of a good harvest. This is why, for the last 70 years, UNICEF has worked to grow opportunities for children and adolescents in . For us, a country’s development is only possible by raising a generation of children with equal opportunities. ©UNICEF PERÚ/MORENO FOREWORD

Since 31 July 2015, the day I started as UNICEF’s Representative in Peru, the commitment of Donors and businesses continued to support UNICEF’s work in Peru. This the Government, civil society and international cooperation to the development of children and is reflected in the 4,085 individual donors who make monthly donations adolescents continues to amaze me. to our programmes and in the partnerships we maintain with businesses from different sectors. My travels to regions where UNICEF works have allowed me to see the challenges Peru faces due to its multiculturalism, geography and history. They have also given me the opportunity to see Through UNICEF’s Procurement Services, the Government acquired strategic supplies to reduce how the Government and communities together can come up with solutions to critical problems. child mortality, reduce anaemia, prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and support pregnancy care. The supplies amount to US$14.2 million. During the long journeys to Amazonian and Andean communities, I gained a better understanding of why, despite remarkable progress, Peru still faces challenges in ending neonatal mortality, 2015 was a fruitful year. At year’s end we were left to build on the achievements made during malnutrition and anaemia in children. the current Country Programme: the creation of a set of regulations that will inform Intercultural Bilingual Education over the next five years; the positioning of early childhood as a critical stage of The stories I heard of indigenous teachers, who as children experienced the confusion of having human development; the studies on the determinants of violence that can inform evidence-based Spanish-speaking teachers, explain the commitment and passion that drive the UNICEF team’s prevention policies for children and adolescents. work alongside the Government to strengthen Intercultural Bilingual Education. We ended the year with the challenge of preparing the way for a new Country Programme to I have been pleasantly surprised to see the creation of UNICEF-supported legislative, policy and support Peru in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). budgetary frameworks for Peruvian children and adolescents. In the last year, Peru has adopted a law that prohibits physical and humiliating punishment of children and a law that safeguards I must also highlight the high rates of violence against children and adolescents reported by the financial resources for the National Plan of Action for Children and Adolescents (PNAIA) 2012-2021. Women’s Emergency Centre and the Demographic and Health Survey in Peru. This daily reality UNICEF provided technical assistance to both of these initiatives. that Peruvian children and adolescents face is a call to action.

The on-going work of civil society and increasing private sector participation in promoting children’s Beyond legal sanction, we all have a role in identifying and addressing the roots of violence and rights also deserve recognition. While we still have a long way to go, there have been significant in challenging its social acceptance. We also need to focus our efforts on the most vulnerable joint efforts to improve social services for children, particularly in Amazonian regions. children. They include those who live in residential care deprived of the basic right to grow up in a family and those exposed to sexual exploitation and child labour. The media are part of daily life for both children and adolescents. UNICEF trained journalists from major TV networks with the aim to improve news coverage of issues related to children. This We take on these challenges with determination and a special commitment to children and training was possible thanks to a partnership with the National Radio and Television Society, the adolescents in Peru. Ombudsperson’s Office and Save the Children. We also worked with the Government to promote civic participation of children and adolescents through the La Onda de mi Cole (My School’s Vibe) engagement initiative and consultations with adolescents on what they expect of their schools and Peru’s next government. María Luisa Fornara Representative UNICEF IN ACTION UNICEF IN ACTION We supported the ministries of Development and QUALITY AND We worked with regional education authorities to implement Social Inclusion, Education and Health to improve their service improvement plans. We participated in IBE their early childhood care services. train-the-trainer initiatives and supported teachers in their EQUITABLE BASIC pedagogical practice. Working with the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Cusco’s regional health EDUCATION Working with the Ministry of Education, we organized authority, we implemented a strategy to help four the conference ‘New contexts and challenges in the local health networks deliver maternal and child implementation of Intercultural Bilingual Education’. The health services in remote areas. The mobile health Thanks to the financial support of the conference identified best practices to strengthen IBE and units provided high quality laboratory, ultrasound Government of Canada, we continued to was complemented by an outreach campaign in traditional and dental services to health centres, building their work with the Ministry of Education to and digital media on the importance of IBE. capacity to diagnose and resolve health issues. strengthen Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) and pre-school education. We provided We worked with the Department of Alternative, Intercultural Working with UNICEF’s Spanish National Bilingual and Rural Education to design the national IBE Committee and the Probitas laboratory, we technical assistance at the national level and policy and various regulations that, once adopted, will build implemented two laboratories that provide the regional level in Amazonas, Apurímac, on progress made in IBE. We also ensured that children HIV testing to help prevent mother- to - child Ayacucho, Cusco and Ucayali. are included in IBE consultations. transmission of HIV / AIDS in Condorcanqui ©UNICEF PERÚ/BARCO (Amazonas region) and Datem del Marañón ©UNICEF PERÚ We helped organize Tinkuy, an event that gathers (Loreto region). The Ministry of Health drew on children from across Peru to share their local culture and CHILD both experiences to develop standards related knowledge. This shows that IBE is not only a right but to treating HIV in indigenous communities. also an opportunity to protect and share Peru’s ancestral knowledge with the world. SURVIVAL AND We supported the “National Plan for the Reduction of Chronic Malnutrition and Anaemia 2014 – 2016”. In pre-school education, we supported a programme to DEVELOPMENT We successfully advocated for the standardization professionalize indigenous teachers in remote areas. We of multi-micronutrient and zinc supplementation also helped conduct the first evaluation of pre-school In 2015, our challenges were: positioning early as ways to prevent diarrhoea. education, which measures the all-round development childhood development (ECD), expanding of children, as well as the quality of their learning access to quality health services in remote With the support of the Aquae Foundation, we environments. developed culturally relevant models for solid communities, strengthening prevention waste disposal (ecological toilets), water treatment With the Florecer Network, we organized the second of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/ (banana circles) and access to safe water (rainwater national meeting for adolescents ‘If I were president’. AIDS, supporting the fight against neonatal harvesting). The Ministry of Housing, Construction Youth from Peru’s 14 regions participated in the event, mortality, anaemia and child malnutrition, and and Sanitation is validating the models to improve where they expressed their opinions and called for public promoting alternative models for access to water and sanitation in the Amazon. policies that promote their development and right to live safe water and sanitation. without violence. THE MAIN GOAL THE MAIN GOAL Families in Peru’s most excluded regions improve their childrearing practices and all All children access quality, equitable, relevant, children have access to quality and culturally linguistically appropriate and gender-sensitive relevant health services, as well as safe water education to help them reach their full potential. sources.

6 7 UNICEF IN ACTION UNICEF IN ACTION In partnership with the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable We expanded the use of Peru’s tool to track public Populations (MIMP) and with expertise from the UNICEF spending on children among decision-makers, public Innocenti Research Centre, we produced: a report on the servants and civil society. The tool can be used to prevalence, incidence and determinants of violence against determine the exact national investment in children and children; a study on the prevalence of violence against adolescents. children and adolescents and its impact on educational outcomes; and a study on physical punishment in schools. We advocated that Supreme Decree N°001-2012-MIMP This research will inform evidence-based policies on be made law to safeguard financial resources for the violence prevention and support increased investment National Plan of Action for Children and Adolescents in services that prevent and respond to violence against (PNAIA) 2012-2021 even during periods of decreased children. government revenues or economic slowdown.

While 96 per cent of Peruvian children have a birth Working with the Ombudsperson’s Office, the National certificate and a national identity card, regional averages Civil Service Authority (SERVIR) and ProDecentralization, show that there are still hundreds of children who do not we strengthened the capacities of 137 regional council legally exist. We assisted the National Registry of Births members from 17 regions and 131 municipal council and Marriages (RENIEC) in developing the new National members. As a result of this initiative, Cusco and Identification Policy 2016-2021 that will focus on closing Apurímac passed regional laws related to children. gaps, specifically for children. We supported the new regional authorities in Working with MIMP, the Ombudsperson’s Office and civil Amazonas, Ayacucho, Apurímac and Loreto to fulfill their society, we contributed to three significant legislative commitments – made as candidates – to include children processes: the ratification of the Third Optional Protocol in their development plans. In these regions, along with to the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the drafting Ucayali and Cusco, we promoted strategies to monitor of a law to protect children without parental care (this the implementation of the 2015-2018 regional accords. legislation reforms the system and aligns with international ©UNICEF PERÚ/BARCO standards); and the adoption of a law that prohibits physical As a member of the Children’s Collective, we helped punishment. draft proposals related to child and adolescent health, PUBLIC nutrition, education, protection and participation for In Ayacucho, we helped leverage US$1.56 million in public the 2016-2021 national accord. These proposals will be resources to improve protection services that address presented to presidential candidates in 2016. violence and to build capacity for youth-led initiatives. POLICY We continued to help Peru move At the subnational level, UNICEF helped leverage approximately US$17.8 million in public resources to ©UNICEF PERÚ We also assisted the national Yachay programme, which works with street-involved children, to validate – in forward with legislation, policies improve access and quality of health, nutrition, education Andean and Amazonian regions – a guide for improving and investment for children and and protection services for Peru’s most excluded PROTECTION social skills through sport. adolescents. In 2015, Peru spent children. Various forms of violence affect Peruvian 25 per cent of the national budget children across the country. In Peru, physical on children and adolescents. Pu- blic spending on children increa- punishment is legitimized by the perception THE MAIN GOAL sed to US$9.4 billion. THE MAIN GOAL that it has a positive effect in childrearing, All children and adolescents grow up without violence Children are at the centre of national, regional and particularly at home and school. and in a family, and with easy access to protection and local public policies and there is investment in child justice systems. protection and development.

8 9 UCAYA L I AMAZONAS Pure water Training teachers There is no safe drinking water in Santa Rosita de Abujao. In Karen’s house, Gloria just turned four years old and is going to school for the first time in the awajún when someone needs water to cook or drink, her father goes to the river community of Paantam-Nieva in Condorcanqui. A few weeks ago, her mother registered her and returns with a 20-litre bucket of visibly contaminated water. Karen then at the school because it no longer has high staff turnover. Now the school’s teachers receive takes an alum stone tied to a string (alum is a mineral that purifies water) constant training. Gloria is happy. Her teacher is Cándida, a woman from Paantam who and places it in the bucket, stirring it 60 times. After 30 minutes, Karen used to be a community education worker but now works as a professional teacher thanks checks that the water is clearer. With her father’s help, she pours the water to an Intercultural Bilingual Education training programme provided by the Cesar Vallejo through a filter into another container and adds eight drops of chlorine. This educational institution in Bagua. This programme, promoted by the Ministry of Education process transforms water from the Ucayali River into safe drinking water. with UNICEF’s support, is training 100 awajún and wampis teachers like Cándida who lack UNICEF developed this water treatment model with the support of the Aquae teaching degrees. This initiative has helped 1,950 children receive quality education in their Foundation (Spain). own language. ©UNICEF PERÚ/BARCO ©UNICEF PERÚ

CUSCO APURÍMAC Close to home healthcare Monitoring child Three months pregnant, Ana development Velásquez Quille walks from her What is the point of paved community in Ccequeray to the streets and grand plazas if local health centre in Ccorao. That’s children suffer from malnutrition? where she finds the mobile UNICEF César Padilla Ortega used to ask health unit of Cusco’s northern this question when he was a health services network. municipal leader in Santa María The unit provides specialized IMPROVING LIVES de Chicmo in the Andahuaylas maternal and child health care

©UNICEF PERÚ ©UNICEF PERÚ/FRANCIS district of the Apurímac region. to local communities. This His concern led him to advocate morning, the unit team checked for child-centred initiatives in Ana’s teeth, did lab analysis and LORETO AYACUCHO the district budget, including performed an ultrasound – a the construction of community first for Ana, who has had three Combating malnutrition The scars of violence monitoring centres and previous pregnancies. Before Two-year-old Ronaldinho has had a major “I think it is possible to erase the marks compensation for community the mobile health units, she breakthrough. Thanks to zinc tablets, he no longer left by physical punishment, but not the health workers. César is proud would have to spend around has to worry about chronic malnutrition. His mother memories.” With these words, Solange that he has worked for children in US$15 on transportation and says that ever since they moved to the Jorge recalls the morning she and her friends were his community and that, thanks meals to access specialized Monasi settlement in Iquitos, her son started to physically disciplined by a teacher for arriving to the community monitoring services at the regional hospital suffer from chronic diarrhoea. Worried for his health, late to school. The second time he tried strategy, there has been a in Cusco. The mobile health she took him to the doctor at the local health centre to use the same punishment, she warned significant reduction in chronic units are a UNICEF-assisted who prescribed a course of zinc tablets. The nurses the teacher that she would report him to malnutrition among local children. initiative of Cusco’s regional explained to Ronaldinho’s mother how to give him the authorities and he quickly changed his In partnership with universities health authority with financial the medication and recommended at-home hygiene mind. Currently, Solange is a member of and regional governments, support from the Korean practices. Now Ronaldinho is a healthy child. an association of student leaders working UNICEF has built local capacity International Cooperation Loreto’s regional health authority, with the support to make child and youth voices heard by in public management. In the Agency. In Cusco, UNICEF has of UNICEF and the International Zinc Association decision-makers. In the Ayacucho region, Apurímac region, UNICEF worked with support from the (IZA), has incorporated zinc supplementation as a UNICEF has worked with support from the has worked with support Association for the Promotion of treatment for children with diarrhoea and to prevent Centre for the Promotion of the Rights of from the Association for Child Human Development (APRODH).

chronic malnutrition. ©UNICEF PERÚ Children and Adolescents (CEPRODENA). Development in Peru (ADENI). ©UNICEF PERÚ

10 11 AN AGENDA FOR A DEVELOPED, JUST AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD

There are more than 10 million children and adolescents in Peru. For us, Peru must strive to fulfill the SDGs over the next 15 years. Sebastián

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“Today’s welcome decision marks the end of a process – and a beginning. The drive to turn commitments IMPLEMENTING THE AGENDA into action. We will measure our progress, yes, through statistics. But the true measure will be in every child In the months before the adoption of the Sustainable The SDGs represent the human aspiration to lifted out of poverty; through every mother who survives childbirth. By helping the most disadvantaged Development Goals (SDGs), representatives from build a world without inequities, where human children today – by giving them a fair chance in life – we can help break the bonds of extreme poverty nine United Nations member states met in to and economic development do not conflict with promote participatory monitoring and accountability respect for the environment. Implementing the tomorrow.” as a way to implement the Goals. In preparation, agenda is a shared responsibility and the best each participating country carried out national legacy we can leave to children. Let’s work UNICEF Executive Director Antony Lake on the challenge UNICEF and the world face upon the adoption of the consultations to identify and share best practices. UN together! Sustainable Development Goals. Women, UNDP and UNICEF led the consultations.

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EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION

Children are often the most affected by natural disasters. Whether or not they lose loved Through the production of journalistic information and In social mobilization, our La Onda de mi Cole (My School’s ones or possessions, there is always an emotional impact. In 2015, UNICEF particularly opinion pieces, we helped ensure that decision-makers, Vibe) engagement initiative took on a more collaborative focused on the emotional recovery of child victims of flooding in Lurigancho-Chosica and civil society and the private sector paid more attention to spirit and included the participation of Lima’s regional the situation of children and adolescents. education authority. The voices of more than 50,000 student Loreto. participants – along with 2,000 youth who participated in a We launched three important engagement campaigns in student congress organized by the Ministry of Education – traditional and digital media. were captured in a child-centred public policy proposal for UNICEF IN ACTION presidential candidates. We helped the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Between March and April, there was flash flooding The first was “#ElPerúconLoreto” (Peru stands with Loreto), Populations (MIMP) implement the Juguemos In the Lurigancho-Chosica district in Lima province which helped raise national awareness of the challenges To mark the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights SonRie programme in six districts of Maynas that caused mud and landslides. This affected homes, that make children in Loreto among Peru’s most vulnerable. of the Child, the Peruvian Football Federation arranged to province in Loreto region. The programme aims water and sanitation systems, communication The second campaign positioned Intercultural Bilingual have fans at Peru’s games with Paraguay and Chile hold up to: improve protection mechanisms and prevent infrastructure and people’s health and safety. In Education (IBE) as a child right and an opportunity to share a “Generation i” card as a call for Peru to give all children violence, abuse and exploitation of children and response, we educated affected communities on Peru’s ancestral knowledge with the world. In the third equal opportunities. adolescents; and provide psychosocial assistance safe hygiene practices and provided child hygiene campaign, “Generation i”, our ambassador Gastón Acurio to children and adolescents affected by the kits to prevent acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea helped us launch a call to include children and their concerns In Corporate Social Responsibility, we supported the emergency. and skin and eye infections. We also helped MIMP in electoral debates. International Clinic’s progress towards certification as a mother- implement three Juguemos SonRie programmes. and child-friendly hospital. We also engaged businesses from Thanks to United Nations emergency response Our partnership with the National Radio and Television various sectors on the Children’s Rights and Business Principles, funding, we distributed various supplies that helped In response to the El Niño phenomenon, we assisted Society helped increase our number of radio, TV and digital encouraging them to self-evaluate their impact on children. prevent infections in the affected population: 3,000 in drafting contingency plans that guarantee children media promo spots by 22 per cent compared to 2014. Our mosquito nets, 3,500 child hygiene kits, 500 water and adolescents have access to education, protection, new digital media partnerships with America TV and Latina, As a part of the Children and Media Group, made up of the kits, 160 containers that each hold 200 litres of nutrition and water and sanitation services. We as well as the IBE campaign, reached more than 13 million National Radio and Television Society, the Ombudsperson’s rainwater, 50,000 chlorine water purification tablets, helped MIMP build capacity in emergency preparation people, increasing our reach by 317 per cent compared to Office and Save the Children, we provided workshops for 10,000 units of oral rehydration salts and 20 fumigation and response and helped Peru’s Cabinet develop a 2014. On Facebook alone, the IBE campaign reached 2.25 journalists from major TV networks to improve their news equipment kits. communication strategy. million people. coverage of issues related to children.

14 15 ©UNICEF PERÚ BUDGET 2015

Component Estimated expenditure in US$ Child survival and development 1,678,096 Quality and equitable basic education 1,099,770 Child protection 556,226 Policy, social investment and knowledge generation 571,217 CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS Cross-sectoral 526,516 AND LOCAL RESOURCE Programme support (national administrative and logistical costs) 344,321 MOBILIZATION TOTAL 4,776,146

In 2015, we continued our Hazte Socio de UNICEF Entertainment to donate a portion of their ticket sales. fundraising strategy that allows individuals to make The partnership has been renewed for 2016. monthly donations by credit or debit card. We built our donor base through telemarketing and face-to-face We supported emergency response efforts in Loreto fundraising in shopping centres and on the street. Thanks and Chosica with a fundraising campaign. The funds to the solidarity of Peruvians we closed the year with we raised helped provide safe spaces to support the Funding sources US$ 4,085 donors and the average monthly donation increased emotional recovery of children affected by emergencies Bilateral contributions from donor countries 1,855,642 from around US$10 to US$12. and disasters. Regular Resources - UNICEF 1,307,669 In corporate partnerships, for the second consecutive As in previous years, our Un sol para los niños campaign year, Bruño Publishing donated a percentage of their raised funds to help prevent neonatal mortality in Local private funding 431,810 sales to UNICEF and included information on children’s the Amazon. Our campaign partners included Crisol National Committees - UNICEF 430,500 rights in their textbooks. Bookstores, the Scientific University of the South, Saga Falabella, Vivanda Grocery Stores and the SISE Institute. Emergency Programme Fund 355,176 In May, our partnership with Peru Rail took effect. The initiative gives UNICEF the opportunity to raise funds All of these activities helped us raise over US$600,000 Thematic funds 343,266 from train passengers heading to Machu Picchu. throughout the year. In 2016, we hope to increase in Other 52,083 the number of individual donors and private sector We also partnered with the production company ACT partnerships. TOTAL 4,776,146

16 17 PARTNERS AND COLLABORATORS NATIONAL AMBASSADORS Donors Partner companies and institutions ©UNICEF PERÚ • Government of Canada • Canal N • Korean International Cooperation Agency • Scipión E. Llona School (KOICA) • Copiloto Advertising Agency • UNICEF National Committees • International Clinic • Germany • Correo Newspaper • Belgium • El Bocón Newspaper • Canada • Ojo Newspaper • Spain • Óscar Ibáñez Academy • USA • Peruvian Football Federation • Peruvian Air Force • Havas Media Strategic Partnerships • Hotel Meliá Lima • ACT Entertainment • Crisol Bookstores • América TV • La Tarumba • Radio Corporation of Peru • Latina TV • Bruño Publishing • Media Networks • Aquae Foundation, Spain • Municipality of Miraflores • RPP Media Group • Municipality of • Infoductos y Telecomunicaciones • Panamericana TV • International Zinc Association (IZA) • Publicis • Perú Rail • Peruvian National Police • Punto Celeste • Radio Moda National Ambassadors Friends of UNICEF • Probitas, Spain • Radio Planeta • Gastón Acurio • Paco Bardales • Jason Day • Juliana Oxenford • Rímac Insurance • Vivanda Grocery Stores • Dan Berlin, USA • Virna Flores • Luis Ángel Pinasco • Dina Páucar • Saga Falabella • César Vallejo University • Lorena Caravedo • Óscar Ibáñez • July Pinedo • Mónica Sánchez • National Radio and Television Society • Scientific University of the South • Pierina Carcelén • Ismael La Rosa • Nataniel Sánchez • Marco Zunino • Mayra Couto • Daniel Lazo • André Silva

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