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Myanmar, UNICEF Review Country Cooperation Program
Xinhua
01-JUL-98
YANGON (July 2) XINHUA - A mid-term meeting of
the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its Myanmar
partner agencies is being held here to review their
country program of cooperation for 1996-2000.
The two-day meeting, which began Wednesday,
reviewed the progress made in health and nutrition,
the official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar
reported Thursday.
The four-year Myanmar-UNICEF country
cooperation program, which has been under
implementation since 1996 with 56 million U.S.
dollars in assistance from the UNICEF, covers
health, development of nutrition, water and
sanitation, basic education, early childhood
development and child rights.
The projects are being undertaken by the five
Myanmar ministries of health, agriculture and
irrigation, education, social welfare relief and
resettlement, and national planning and economic
development in cooperation with the UNICEF.
Attending the meeting are ministers of related
Myanmar ministries, heads of government
departments, ambassadors, officials of the UNICEF
and representatives of other U.N. agencies.
The last annual Myanmar-UNICEF review meeting
was held in November 1997.