Luanda - The Committee for Social Policy of the Council of Minister assessed Tuesday, a Draft Presidential Decree that approves the National Policy for Early Childhood, which aims to materialize the rights of children, from birth to the first five years of age.
The Bill, analyzed in a meeting led by the Minister of State for the Social Area, Dalva Ringote, aims to guarantee the protection and integral development of the child, thus ensuring the implementation of actions that lead to a full state of health, education, protection and development of children in early childhood.
The meeting also analyzed the Implementation Plan for the National Policy for Early Childhood, an instrument that contains the operationalization measures of the National Policy, specifying the actors, their interventions, means and modes of action in favor of this group of the population, ensuring that all they reach their full potential, through the involvement of parents, guardians, caregivers, teachers and everyone who effectively participates in their lives.
The meeting also considered the Draft Presidential Decree that creates the Gender Observatory of Angola (OGA) and establishes its operational and functioning bases, constituting a digital platform designed to gather and make available information that allows subsidizing the formulation and implementation of public policies for women in the country.
The OGA intends to monitor indicators of gender inequality and women's rights and Angola's progress in relation to the regional commitments made and goals defined in terms of gender and development.
In this sense, the evaluation of this matter was recommended to ensure that the duties contained in this observatory are reflected in the National Council for Social Action (CNAS).
The Committee for Social Policy of the Council of Ministers also made a first approach to the National Sports Plan (PLANADESPORTO 2024-2027), a document that contains a set of actions that aim to guarantee the improvement of performance sport, the generalization of the practice of the activity physical and sporting activities, through activities aimed at communities.
It is also aligned with improving Angola's position in the World Ranking of Highly Competitive Sports, allowing the achievement of a greater number of medals in international events and contributing to improving the quality of life of the populations, having been recommended that this be deeply analyzed by the sector, by other Ministerial Departments and taken to public consultation to hear the main actors in sport.
Speaking to the press at the end of the meeting, the Secretary of State for Family and Promotion of Women, Alcina Kindada, said that the National Children's Institute (INAC) is carrying out work to resocialize children on the streets.
She explained that, in this plan, the aim is to locate the families of these children and, in those cases that are not found, they are placed in a home. She stated that one of the concerns linked to the child has to do with the escape from paternity, with a high number of records. EVC/ART/TED/DOJ
