Ongoing Interventions for Child Survival and Development
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- Presenting the Ministry’s 2026/27 budget estimates in the National Assembly, the Minister, Dr Dorothy Gwajima said interventions to improve child survival, development, protection and wellbeing are ongoing.
- She added that legal protection efforts continue, noting that at the start of the 2025/26 financial year in July 2025, a total of 1,237 gender-based violence cases against children were pending in courts.
- Assistant Commissioner for Social Welfare and Child Services, Ms Happy Msimbe, said producing, sharing or facilitating the distribution of such content is an offence under the Law of the Child Act, Cap 13.
- Ms Msimbe cited Section 162(1)(k) of the Act, which prohibits the production and dissemination of content showing children in such circumstances.
- She said the Ministry received 294.4m/- in external funding to support education on positive parenting under the Child Survival and Development project.