The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday donated US$48,053 ($9,658,653) to the Rights of the Child Commission, for a birth registration survey and the crafting of a strategic plan for the Commission.
UNICEF Representative Dr Suleiman Braimoh stated that the funds will be used for conducting of a birth registration survey/research and advocacy, which will support universal birth registration in Guyana in regions 1, 2, 7 and 10; and the crafting of a five-year strategic plan for the Rights of the Child Commission. He was at the time handing over the cheque to Chief Executive Officer of the Commission William Boston and its Deputy Chairperson Rosemary Benjamin-Noble.
The partnership between the two organisations came
