SOCIETY
Azerbaijani Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population, UNICEF ink Action Plan
Baku, June 9 (AZERTAC). The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population of Azerbaijan and UNICEF have signed a joint Action Plan for 2014-2015.
Addressing the event, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population Salim Muslumov said that President Ilham Aliyev`s attention to the social field strengthened the state policy towards children and ensuring children`s social security rights.
Hailing the cooperation between the Ministry and UNICEF, Muslumov said that it played an important role in development of “Law on social services”, ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People, as well as in institutional and technical support of the social rehabilitation system of children with disabilities.
The document envisages implementation of the joint action plan on “Reforms in children care system”, technical support of social services related with children, as well as increase of human resources development in this field. The plan will also increase the capacity of rehabilitation centers under the ministry. It will expand implementation of social model alongside with the medical model at the rehabilitation sphere.
Representative for UNICEF in Azerbaijan Mark Hereward hailed the cooperation with Azerbaijan as a good example in protection of children`s rights. He expressed his confidence that the plan signed would contribute to the improvement of childen`s care system in Azerbaijan.