Introduction Center for family health and community development

Mission CEFACOM is a not-for-profit organization, leading in using the right based approach to promote the full development of the Vietnamese children.

Vision to 2015 By the year of 2015, CEFACOM is considered as a dynamic, creative and reliable organization in providing information and effective evidence-based interventions related to promotion of children’s rights in Vietnam and in the South East Asia.

Development Strategies Action research Capacity building Advocacy

Achievements Actively participate in the Child right working group and contribute to the activities of the network Technical source (publications, research, training and seminar) for stakeholders in Child right promotion Contribution to the first NGO Complementary report on CRC

Achievements Technical source (publications, research, training and seminar) for stakeholders in Child participation Modeling a meaningful child participation (Youth participation project)

Achievements Technical source (publications, research, training and seminar) for stakeholders in Violence to children, particularly Prevention of child sexually abused Support few NGOs to develop organizational Child protection policies Mobilize private sector to contribute to the child protection work (i.e. Internet safety education with IBM) Represent Vietnam in regional network (ECPAT, Asia Acts) to eliminate violence to children

Challenge Absence of independent and reliable data collection system for CR implementation Technical issues: Children’s participation standards Children's protection system is just in the early stage of development Networking: Weak connection and knowledge sharing's among NGOs network Resources for further development