Enhancing cooperation between Algeria and the United Nations Children’s Fund

The Minister of National Solidarity, Family and Women’s Issues, Siqiya Moulouji, received, in Algiers, represented by the United Nations Children’s Fund in Algeria, Katarina Johansson, where the meeting dealt with ways to enhance cooperation between the two parties, according to a statement by the Ministry.

The meeting, as explained by the same source, was an opportunity to discuss the prospects and ways of cooperation with this international body and study how to enhance the programs that were previously embodied with it, supporting improving childhood sponsorship and developing programs directed to them. “

By the way, the two sides touched on many files of common concern, such as “upgrading the rights of the child, enhancing policies aimed at protecting childhood, supporting the rights of children with special needs, and discussing areas of enhancing training for the benefit of the interlocutors.”

In this context, Moulouji touched on the various mechanisms and measures that the ministry has initiated within its work plan, which aims to “improve care and sponsorship programs, especially small childhood.”

It also stopped at what was done on the occasion of school entry 2025-2026, reviewing the efforts of the state in order to “ensure the schooling of all children, including the private school scholarship and the distribution of school bags to the targeted groups, especially those with special needs, whether within the sector institutions, in the ordinary school community or through private departments”, as well as “strengthening the institutional sponsorship network set for their benefit.”

On the other hand, the minister stopped at the projects that the sector is working to complete and launch, similar to “setting a system for institutional sponsorship with the problem of autism spectrum disorder, especially by establishing a national center and specialized centers”, which would sponsor the category of children with this disorder “according to scientific and pedagogical methods and mechanisms,” the statement adds.

For her part, the representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund in Algeria expressed her “willingness to participate and support all initiatives carried out by the national solidarity sector”, while recording her desire to “enhance cooperation and exchange of experiences between the ministry and the UN Authority and expand areas through which joint projects and activities can be implemented in the field of training and the transfer of experiences, sensitization and media regarding children’s rights.”

At the end of the meeting, “It was agreed to study all the available cooperation ways that were raised during the meeting and work to embody it as realistic activities in the field for childhood, especially the small ones, as well as children with special needs whose rights are a priority of the public authorities and the Ministry of National Solidarity alike”, where the UNICEF office expressed his “readiness to put his expert network at the disposal of the sector,” according to what was reported by the same source.