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SUSTAINING GROWTH, SECURING PROSPERITY
CHAPTER 6: SOCIAL SECTOR PLANS FOR 2014
2. N
ATIONAL
S
TRATEGY
FOR
C
HILD
RIGHTS
The National Strategy for Child’s Rights,
due to come on-stream in 2013-14 aims at
mainstreaming children’s rights. It involves
several activities to enhance capacity and
expertise regarding children’s rights, by ensuring
actors involved in mainstreaming children’s
rights are equipped with the necessary skills
and tools.
3. C
HILD
P
ROTECTION
C
AMPAIGN
• The National campaign on the protection
of children in Trinidad and Tobago will be
expanded in the next year to include multi-
media approaches on messages targeted
towards parents and the general public on
methods and strategies in safeguarding
children against abuse, neglect, exploitation
and violence. The Ministry will partner with
the University of the West Indies on the
national Break the Silence initiative aimed at
strengthening community based protection
mechanisms in preventing and responding
to child sexual abuse.
• As a mechanism to further facilitate Child
Protection, a National Children’s Registry is
being established. This Registry is aimed at
protecting and monitoring the growth, care
and development of children throughout
Trinidad and Tobago. The Registry will be a
government database that collects and holds
information on all children, that is, persons
under the age of 18. It is envisioned that the
National Children’s Registry will transform
children services through adequate and
sustained support for more effective and
early detection. It would also provide an
effectivemechanismfor information sharing,
better and more rapid communication
among key practitioners across the sectors
of education, health, social services, justice
and national security.
4. C
ONSTRUCTION OF NEW
FACILITIES
The Ministry will continue to advance the
construction of six (6) new facilities comprising
three (3) Safe Houses, two (2) Assessment
Centres and one (1) Transition Home. The Safe
Houses and Assessment Centres will upgrade
the protection of women and children, while the
Transition Home will assist the youth with the
change from institutional to independent living.
These projects are priority, given the nature of
the services that they aim to provide and the
need for such services in this country.
In addition to constructing new facilities, the
Ministry aims to improve the condition of
existing facilities under its purview: St. Mary
Home for Children, St. Jude’s School for Girls,
St. Michael’s School for Boys and St. Dominic’s
Children’s Home.
6.13 MINISTRY OF FOOD
PRODUCTION
The following initiatives form part of the
Ministry’s Medium TermAction Plan 2012-2015,
entitled AGRICULTURE NOW and are expected
to be implemented in fiscal 2013:
6.14 MINISTRY OF NATIONAL
DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL
INTEGRATION
The following key initiatives will be undertaken in
fiscal 2014:
Box 6.III:
Key initiatives for implementation in
2014 under Ministry of Food Production
1. Large Farms Project
2. Graduate Internship Programme
3. Farm Labour
4. Home Gardening Initiative
5. Agricultural incentive programme (AIP)
