ANNUAL
REPORT - 2004
TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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ANNUAL
REPORT - 2004 |
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II.
Considerations by the Director General
As
from 2000, the Strategic Plan has provided the IIN a logic operational
structure, program consistence and a methodological idiosyncrasy that have
defined over time the new IIN personality as an specialized organization,
without disrupting the unity and uniqueness of its institutional history.
A
component of this new relating style with public and private operators
working on child affairs has consisted on avoiding competition or effort
overlapping so as not to waste the scarce resources allocated to address
one of the major issues throughout the region. One
further essential component of the strategy has been the delivery to the
countries of technical tools allowing for the promotion of changes from
the perspective of children and families’ right protection, and for the
creation of true National Child Systems.
Thus,
the Strategic Plan actually became a governing plan and a strength that
enabled the Instituted to develop high-impact coordinated actions.
Nevertheless, the 2000-2004 Plan –now completed– is currently subject
to a participatory assessment as the previous step towards the
establishment of a new four-year road map. We
are convinced that our approach of the mission to be fulfilled by the IIN
remains valid. The scope of the socioeconomic problems that affect our
countries –even worsened in some sub-regions– has increasingly reduced
the resources allocated to children-related issues. This confirms the
urgent need for a systematic intervention through policies and programs
with a deeper technical, integral and preventive approach in order to
strengthen the family as the natural context and priority basis for the
protection children’s human rights.
The
IIN has positioned itself as a forum for dialogue that fosters the design
of inter-sector and participatory policies, convenes encounters for the
promotion of successful proposals, encourages the establishment of
public-private and inter-American-universal alliances, and moves ahead
towards the compliance with the mandates received from both the OAS and
the Directing Council. In
brief –and considering the scarce human and material resources of the
IIN which are not alien to the financial crisis experienced by the OAS–
we understand that the magnitude of its contribution has been truly
significant. But we are also aware of matters that are still pending in
order to be able to respond with equity and justice to all issues
identified with children’s rights in the Americas. |