Children

Worldwide Orphans Foundation's vision is to transform the lives of orphaned children around the world. WWO is a U.S.-based NGO that provides medical and psychosocial care and treatment, and educational and arts programs for orphaned and vulnerable children.

WWO is looking for a short term consultant with good QuickBooks accounting software experience to support WWO in transferring their accounting system from MS Excel to QuickBooks. Knowledge of international donor requirements, especially USAID, is desireable. They expect this project to take about 2 weeks of work, which includes designing the system to match the one at our head office, as well as
to the allocation requirements of our USAID donors. English and Vietnamese reading and writing skills are required.

Save the Children in Vietnam (SC) works to promote every child’s rights to survival, protection, participation and development as set forth in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  The current programme focuses on the following core sectors:  Health and Nutrition; HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support; Education; Child protection; Child-focused emergency preparedness and response; Child rights agenda, including Child Development, Civil society development, Economic opportunities, Child poverty Research, and Advocacy for child-friendly development policy and practice.

Download the full report The Child Development Index: Holding governments to account for children's wellbeing
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/child-development-index.pdf

Download the data The Child Development Index - data
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/child-development-index_data2008.xls

Available online as PDF file [232p.] at:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241563574_eng.pdf

This is meeting of the Task Force on CRC report. Which will be facilitated by Save the Children Sweden.

Further information please contact

Save the Children Sweden
6 Ton That Thiep, Ba Dinh , Hanoi
Tel: 84 4 823 23 93,
Tran Bang Hung, hung@scsweden.org.vn
or Eva Laftman eva@scsweden.org.vn

The book, "Keeping Children Safe Toolkit", is available online at http://keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/

Reports from the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Conclusions and recommendations concerning the implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child in Viet Nam, which were adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child during its forty-third session

• A: Considerations of reports submitted by states parties under article 8 of the optional protocol to the convention on the rights of the child on the on the involvement of children in armed conflict

Concluding observations: Viet Nam, 43 session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child

Meetings held in 2007

• Zero CRC draf report 3.4.2007 Vietnamese Version
• Zero CRC draf report 3.4.2007 English Version

February 9, 2007

• Meeting minutes

Meetings held in 2006

Sept 29, 2006

The NGO Child Rights Working Group (CRWG) was established in June 2006 as INGO initiative to strengthen the Government's efforts in advancing children's rights, consolidate and strengthen and avoid repetition of NGO efforts.

It is composed of international NGOs working in Vietnam, mass organizations, local NGOs and other Vietnamese community groups. Other relevant agencies and organizations, such as UN bodies and specialized agencies (UNICEF, ILO, UNODC, etc), government ministries and organizations, research institutes, experts etc are welcome to participate.