CAP-2030’s Executive Director Dr Sarah Dalglish and co-authors Rt. Hon Helen Clark, Dr Awa Coll-Seck and Dr Anthony Costello outline why CAP-2030 has been set up to implement the recommendations of the seminal Commission “A Future for the World’s Children?” in a new Comment published on the year anniversary.
The Comment sets out three core objectives of Children in All Policies 2030 and the focus countries for action:
- Build coalitions for children across sectors, beginning in Argentina, France, Ghana, India, Nepal, Pacific Island countries, Senegal, Sweden, and South Africa, with further countries planned.
- Advance action on the global climate crisis by centring children’s perspectives and harnessing their voices to drive action by national and global policy makers.
- Address the problems associated with commercial marketing and advance understanding of this key area for improving children’s health and wellbeing
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“Together with the global health community, governments, communities, and young people themselves, we can usher in this brighter future.”
(Dalglish et al, 2021)