• Introduction

• Main measures on the improvement of children’s life and the implementation

• Trends in allocation of financial sources for the children’s wealth

• The system used to monitor the implementation

• Development of partnership and associations for the sake of well-being of children

• Achievements of the (World fit for children) Action Plan and MDG purposes concerning children

• Experience and initiatives for improvement well-being of the children

Introduction

In Uzbekistan the protection of maternity and childhood, creation of conditions for full and harmonic development, educating children in the spirit of common to all mankind’s principles have been elevated to a rank of state policy. Even in very difficult times of the transition period, the care about healthy and happy maternity and childhood was one of the priority tasks.

National program to support cadre, State program on reforming healthcare system, National program on developing secondary education, Special program on measures to raise medical culture of family, strengthening health of women, birth and education of a healthy generation and other programs, that are currently being implemented in Uzbekistan, don’t have any precedents in other countries with a transition economy.

Over the years of Independence Uzbekistan has reached remarkable results in decreasing maternal and infantile deaths, improving sanitary-epidemiological situation and other spheres of the healthcare system.

Uzbekistan – is one of the few countries where all children have access not only to the elementary but also to the secondary education that is general, compulsory and free. In the republic almost maximum level of literacy has been reached – 99,3%.

In researches of foreign institutes (Social Monitoring, UNICEF, 2003) and international experts it is noted that attention and expenditures of the state to healthcare system, school and technical education in Uzbekistan are the most among the Central Asian countries. In addition, on a number of indicators of well-being of mothers and children, Uzbekistan has exceeded recommendations of International Forums.

Along with this in the republic still are to be resolved issues inherited from the old system, social shortcomings of the transition to a market economy have recreated new hardships that impede the pace of furthering the aims of full ensuring children interests.

Among them are: relatively insufficient level of family’s income, the necessity to improve the quality of secondary education, the growth of some social diseases. There is need to pay attention to the absence of permanent statistical data, which allows to monitor indicators of child labour, problems in implementation of healthy life-style.

Several NGO’s involved in child care activities took part in preparation of the National report – Child Fund, Republican Centre of the Child’s Social Adaptation, International Nongovernmental Charitable Fund Soglom Avlod Uchun (Healthy generation), Fund Sen Elgiz emassan (You are not alone), The public movement of youth Kamolot, Fund Ecosan, Fund Makhallya, the Committee of Women, The Centre of Public Opinion Study, Red Cross and Crescent Society and others.

It is worth to mention that at the time of completion of this review, during the solemn ceremony devoted to the 14 anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, coming year 2007 had been announced as a Year of Social Protection. Under the special decree of the President, Republican Commission on development and implementation of the related State program has been set up.

The complex of issues related to the aim of improvement of well being of families, mothers and children takes significant place among key spheres in providing social protection of the people, identified by Concept of this program. This once more confirms the fact that the protection of motherhood and childhood is a key priority. The Government of Uzbekistan provides the implementation of its international commitments in a coherent and purposive way.

Main measures on the improvement of children’s life and the implementation of (The world fit for children) Plan of Actions

Immediately upon receiving the Declaration and The world fit for children Plan of Actions, adopted in 2002 during a special session of the UN General Assembly on children, Uzbekistan has conducted following activity:

• the documents were thoroughly studied on national and sub-national levels including districts and mahallahs to work out concrete proposals on ensuring the implementation of Declaration’s as well as the Plan Actions provisions;

• with the aim of fulfilling the country’s obligations, stipulated in the Declaration, the strategy, priorities, national development plans have been worked out. Within their framework appropriate action programs (plans) on all government levels have been developed in the interest of and for the sake of Uzbek children’s well-being.
  These programs include measures on counteraction to the contemporary risks for children such as being waif and social orphan, spreading out the drug addiction, toxicomania, alcoholism, violence against children, increasing the number of socially resulted diseases including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS;

• taking into account the country’s experience in the sphere, basic provisions of the Millennium Declaration (2000) and the document The world fit for children (2002), proposals of the state-owned and non-governmental structures, public organizations and local communities (mahallahs and other lower structures), acting system of ensuring the children’s interests has been modernized, directions for all-out actions and principal benchmarks of improving the people’s welfare and children’s well-being have been established;

• a midterm document on the Strategy of improving the well-being of the population of Uzbekistan in 2007-2010 includes subsection entitled Children’s well-being. It sets forth the state policy priority directions in this sphere.
  Accent, efforts and resources of state structures, nongovernmental, public organizations are aimed at implementing and further developing the accepted social programs, developing and carrying out new special programs of ensuring interests and development of children on national, regional and local levels by support of international financial and economic institutes.
  Basic differences and features of action programs at all levels and their ideological base became of position, directions and specials goals stated in the recommendations of Committees of the United Nations on the rights of the child and elimination of discrimination against women; Millennium Declarations; the document The world fit for children; the program of cooperation Uzbekistan-UNICEF and a number of other documents;

• together with the Representation office of the UNICEF in Uzbekistan it has been developed and are being realized a system of monitoring the achievement of the purposes of children’s well-being, which provides regular (on 33 – especially developed indicators) the system analysis on local, regional and national levels of implemented measures on ensuring interests of children, revealing available problems, developing and systematic implementing special actions, discussion of achievements and distribution of positive experience of mahallahs, districts and regions.

The implementation of the documents The world fit for children, and (ЦРТ), Country Program of Cooperation that was implemented in 2000-2004 and still being carried out from 2005 to 2009 between the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and UNICEF plays an essential organizational-methodological role and make significant contribution to ensuring Uzbekistan children’s well-being.

It is necessary to mention that main specificity of all programs adopted by the Government and measures on improvement of well-being of children is their precise orientation on reception of high results on achievement of the Purposes of Development of the Millennium, adapted to conditions of Uzbekistan and realization of the Document, The world fit for children, amplification of interaction of various structures in these processes, development of the local initiative and participation of the primary organizations.

As an example of a complex of the state and programs and the decisions adopted by the Government of Uzbekistan it is noteworthy to highlight the following:

• On additional measures for strengthening health of women and rising generations dated February, 25th, 2002;
• On measures on the implementation of priority directions of raising the level of medical culture in family, strengthening health of women, births and education of a healthy generation dated July, 5th, 2002;
• On introduction of the Regulation on of antenuptial medical examination of marrying persons dated August, 25th, 2003;
• On the implementation of the project with participation of the Asian Bank of Development Strengthening health of women and children dated November, 2nd, 2004.

The decision of the President of Republic Uzbekistan dated August, 11th, 2005 №153 On measures on the implementation of the National Program of fortification of a flour;

The decision of the Cabinet of Republic Uzbekistan dated July, 9th, 2004 321 On national program of reforming school education for 2004-2009 and others.

Uzbekistan twice submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child National Report on implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (in 2002 and 2006). The Government of Uzbekistan has developed the National Plan of Actions after receiving the Recommendations from the above mentioned Committee and realized it during 2002-2006. These days a National Program on ensuring of well-Being of children has been completed with taking account the Recommendations of the Committee after reviewing the Country’s Second Report, submitted in 2006.

During realization of the above said documents the work aimed on improving the health of fertile age women, widening an interval between childbirths, prevention of early and closely related marriages, undesirable pregnancy, improvement of professional skill of the medical staff, strengthening of material base of obstetrical and children's institutions, increase of knowledge of the population in the matters of reproductive health is carried out.

In all regions of the country the establishments, responsible for the initial medico-sanitary assistance, have arranged the medical surveys of the fertile age women and supplied women with contraceptives, in order to prevent undesirable pregnancy and widen an interval between childbirth.

The complex of measures for the Program “Mother’s and Child’s Screening”, directed to prevent the childbirth with the hereditary diseases, accompanying with intellectual backwardness as well as inspection of pregnant women is carried out in the Republic with the purpose of revealing anomalies of development of a child-bearing. The infrastructure and the system of the population screening completed by the modern medical diagnostic equipments and highly skilled staff have been created. 12 screening centers are functioning in the regions of the Republic.

Within the framework of the State Programs the cooperation is continuing with the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, USAID, JICA, KfW Bank, World Bank, Asian Development Bank on realization of such programs in the field of protection of motherhood and the childhood as: Maintenance of Safe Pregnancy, Increase of Efficiency of the Prenatal Care, The Expanded Programme of Immunization, Healthy Family, Encouragement and Propagation of Chest Feeding, The Integrated Conducting the Illnesses of Children's Age, Improvement of Reproductive Health, Preventive Maintenance Iron and Iodine Critical Conditions and others.

Since 2003 UNICEF and JICA Joint Program on preventive measures of an anemia among mothers and children is being carried out. Within the framework of the Program 2.2 million children up to 5 years old receive two times annually the capsules of the Vitamin A. 32 maternity complexes and 19 rural medical aid posts of the Republic have received UNICEF Certificate Establishment of the Friendly Relation to the Child.

The National Program on Fortification of Flour, financed by the Global Alliance on improvement of nutrition, on a total sum of $2.8 million has been started since 2005 with the aim of realization of preventive measures on iron critical anemias among children and fertile age women.

According to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Education" and the National Program on professional education, the State Policy on Education is realizing in the following forms: preschool education; the general secondary education; secondary special, vocational education; higher education; post high school education; upgrading the level of skills and retraining of personnel, out-of-school education.

Pre-school education aimed at formation of healthy and full-fledged individuality of a child, who is ready for study at school. It will be carried out up to six - seven years in the family, kindergarten and other establishments.

There are 6565 preschool establishments are functioning in the Republic, where the 571.1 thousand children or 22 % from number of children in such age group studying. More than 59 thousand paedagogical workers are occupied with their training and education.

Reforms of school provide two steps of the general secondary education: an elementary education (I-IV classes) and general secondary education (I-IX classes).

The elementary education is aimed on formation of the bases of literacy, knowledge and the skills, necessary for the general secondary education. The children go to the first class from six - seven years old.

9773 general education schools with a contingent of 5.7 million pupils are functioning in the Republic, 170 of which are the elementary schools, 3817 - nineyears, 5700 - the secondary education schools, 86 – specialized schools and boarding schools for children with physical and intellectual backward and others.

In the Republic equal opportunities are given to girls in the field of education. Training in general education schools and other educational establishments is not parted to sexual attributes - girls and boys are training together.

Children-orphans, children and teenagers who have lost care of parents are brought up in children's homes organized for them and comprehensive schools, boarding schools and contain on full state care. For children and teenagers requiring for long treatment general educational health improving sanatorium boarding schools have been organized.

For children and teenagers having lacks of physical or intellectual development, interfering training at usual school, special comprehensive schools and boarding schools are created.

28 houses "Mehribonlik" (Children's homes) for children-orphans and children who have stayed without care of parents have been organized in the Republic. 3037 children are brought up in such establishments.

In comparison with the last year the number of the children in Children's homes is being decreased. A priority of the State Policy in the given direction is de-institutization, encouragement of the measures on an establishment of trusteeship and guardianship by relatives and the persons replacing parents. In accordance with the Decree of the Government (2003) the foundation for financial support of the families which have taken care of children in families from establishments has been established.

Mahalla committees (local governing body) on places carrying out the activity on returning children to their biological families, in particular - on social - psychological rehabilitation and public influence on parents of children who have stayed in children's homes.

One of the important factors, aimed on improvement of quality of education, is the State National Program of Development of School Education (2004-2009) that envisages a big set of measures on:

• Strengthening and development of the infrastructure of general education schools;
• Provision of the schools by modern educational and laboratory equipments, computers, books and teaching materials;
• Improvement of methodic of teaching and learning programs;
• Improvement of professional skill of teachers, development of the system of their effective training and retraining; increasing a level of motivation of teachers.

A number of the organizational and practical measures, aimed at increasing of activity and effectiveness of job of inspectors on preventive measures against offences of minors, on prevention of the child neglect and offences among children and teenagers, on improvement of their interaction with the commissions on affairs of minors and agencies of national education and public health services, self-government institutions of citizens and various public organizations are carried out.

During 2002-2006 the officers of the Commission on affairs of minors under the Government, which activity is aimed on prevention offences and crimes among minors, influences of religious extremism on them, has visited all regions of the Republic with the purpose of studying efficiency of measures under the prevention of children's criminality and offences, and also for rendering the practical and methodical assistance to the appropriate divisions in realization of the activity incorporated in the National Plan of action on performance of recommendations of United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

In 2005 in comparison with 2002 the number of the crimes committed by minors reduced on 12% and number of the teenagers participating in commitment of the crimes reduced on 10,1 %.

The number of the working teenagers, participate in commitment of the crimes, reduced on 36,2 %, the number of the nonworking teenagers and teenagers not attending school participated in commitment of crimes reduced on 9,6 %.

In order to increase the effectiveness of the activity on securing full-fledged social adaptation of children with the limited physical abilities, children from unsuccessful families or children without parents’ care, the Republican Center for social adaptation of children was established in 2004 by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

This Center together with the respective ministries and departments works on studying of problems of children from vulnerable groups, development and realization of recommendations for integration of children to the society, works with the staff on introduction of new high technologies of work with children, which need care, as well as introduction to the public consciousness the necessity of strengthening of care of children of the above mentioned category.

Trends in allocation of financial sources for the children’s wealth

According to the adopted order, in formulating and adopting the state and local budgets, finances for the children interests, as well as the social security of women and growing generation, should be provided every year.

Budget expenditures for education of the growing generation is increasing annually. Since 2002 to 2006 the budget expenditures in social sphere increased by 2,5 times, including education – by 2,6 times, allowances to families with children – by 2,5 times.

Budget increase rate for separate items are as following (%).

The system used to monitor the implementation

of the objectives of the action plan and the millennium development goals concerning the well-being of children

The process of implementation of adopted programs and action plans directed at providing the well-being of children is under constant control of the government, legislative bodies, central and local agencies concerned, as well as public organizations.

Within the framework of the monitoring system directed at achieving the well-being of children, the monitoring of and measures on assuring the implementation of the Convention on the rights of children in following directions are underway:

• The legislative, administrational and organizational measure. With an aim to achieve the multifaceted approach in protecting the children’s rights more than 50 legislative documents have been monitored for their compliance with the principles and provisions of the Convention on Children’s rights in Uzbekistan. The group of national experts have drafted and submitted for further elaboration the draft laws On guarantees of the Children’s rights and On Juvenile Justice.
• Institutional basis of guaranteeing the children’s rights. The institutional system of guaranteeing the human rights and freedom, including the children’s rights has been rapidly improving; whereas there have been established several institutions on monitoring the legislation on human rights. Two such institutions have been founded in 2005. According to the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan the Institute of monitoring of current legislation under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan has been established. The main task of the institute is to carry out legal examination of draft legislations for their compliance with the provisions of the Constitution of Uzbekistan and other international norms and standards on human rights and foredoom, as well as to monitor the implementation of laws in practice. On the basis of the presidential decree a Center for monitoring of implementation of normative and legal acts under the Ministry of Justice has been established on December 15, 2005. The center is aimed at monitoring the consistency of the legal basis under formation in Uzbekistan with the law enforcement practices, goals and objectives of the reforms and processes of modernization of the country.
• Coordination of the efforts of the government and the civil society institutes, as well as establishment of social control mechanisms (detailed in the next item).
• Popularizing the information on Convention. The convention is regularly reprinted in Uzbek Language. It is widely distributed among high school and college students, civil servants and non-government organizations.
• Deepening the international cooperation on protection of children’s rights. The major international partners are: UNICEF, UNDP, WHO, ILO, UNESCO, OSCE, World Bank, ADB and German foundations - Konrad Adenauer stiftung and Friedrich Ebert stiftung and others.

One of the major tools in getting the data on the state of women and children in monitoring the process of achieving the Millennium development goals and Action plan World, fit for children is the research on national scale:

The medical and demographical research in Uzbekistan (UzMDR, 1996 and 2002), Multi Indicator Cluster research (MICR, 2000 and 2006). It is expected that the data, obtained as a result of 2006 MICR will contribute to further improvement of the process of development and analysis of well based government policies, and thus, will assist in development of more coherent policies and its implementation directed at achievement of MDG and the objectives of the Action plan World, fit for children.

Development of partnership and associations for the sake of well-being of children

Since 2003, the Children's Parliament project is acting in Uzbekistan, which is directed to development of abilities and increase youth participation in the decision-making process, involvement in vigorous activity and display of their civil positions.

More than 200 members of the Children's Parliament, selected from all areas and cities of Uzbekistan, take part in decision of local social problems by carrying out of educational and information programs, including the Program of Preventive Measures Against HIV/AIDS, the rights of the child, increase of awareness of population on MDG, in communication actions on salt ionization, flour fortifications, development of schools of good behavior to children, and others.

At sessions of Children's Parliament, hold twice a year in days of school vacation, during interactive trainings young MPs raise their knowledge on principles and regulations of Convention on the Rights of Child, ideas of democracy, publicity, existing in the country electoral system, and get other vital skills.

Children pass their knowledge to coevals at schools and on residence on the basis of principle Equal trains the equal.
Basic achievements of the Children's Parliament project:

• It became a model of real practical work with youth, which can be implemented everywhere in Uzbekistan;
• It received social recognition and popularity among adults and children;
• It established partner relations with structures of local administrations;
• At support of adults, young MPs carry out huge work in regions;
• Young MPs take real participation in formation and realization of youth policy in cities and areas through concrete social programs;
• Wide information work on realization of national plan on flour fortification and necessity of use iodized salt was carried out within the population;
• Number of participants of young MPs’ information actions is continuing to increase. It became a good parameter of development of the project. More than 17 thousand children participated in trainings on the rights of the child and healthy life, as well as preventive measures against HIV/AIDS and drug addiction.

More than 5 thousand NGOs carry out their activity in Uzbekistan, majority of them deal with children issues. They are monitoring observance of the rights of the child in the country.

Range and diversity of tasks, related to facilitation of all-round interests of children, demand precisely coordinated actions of all NGOs dealing with children’s issues in Uzbekistan.

With this purpose, about 100 of the national NGOs have created the Coalition on Rendering of Palpable Help in protection of the rights and interests of children. NGOs Coalition has carried out seminars aimed to increase the knowledge of the local governmental agencies’ officers, workers of the law enforcement bodies and self-governing structures, regional representatives of the Ombudsman and journalists on the realization of the Convention on the Rights of Child and juvenile justice.

Under the supervision of Children Fund, certain actions on strengthening the potential of NGOs Coalition were taken. All members of the Coalition have actively participated in the realization of international obligations of Uzbekistan in implementation of provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Child and tasks of the international campaign Not a single child without attention, which was carried out in Uzbekistan in 2004-2006.

In 2006, Coordination Council on maintenance of children well-being in Uzbekistan, which consists of heads of the ministries, departments, public organizations, as well as heads of the international organizations, was created within the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Council is the permanently operating advisory body that aimed to carry out coordination of corresponding structures on maintenance of the rights and interests of children of Uzbekistan.

Since 2003, the Non-Governmental Children Fund Sen Yolgiz Emassan (You are Not Alone) productively and creatively functions in the Republic. Three international forums on problems of children, which have actively implemented concrete recommendations, were carried out under the auspices of the Fund.

The social partnership with the public organizations and charity funds becomes stronger. For more than a decade, together with the International Charity Fund Engrag the International art competition World of enchanting paints amongst disabled children is being organized and annually attended by up to 100 persons. Children from other countries - Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan - take part in this competition. International seminar for experts on problems of physical inability is also organized.

Important role in increasing of well-being of Uzbekistan’s children is played by such international organizations, as UNICEF, UNFPA, USAID, WHO, JICA, KfW Bank, World Bank, ADB.

Achievements of the (World fit for children) Action Plan and MDG purposes concerning children

During last years, the Government of Uzbekistan has considerably expanded the potential for carrying out of social reforms in directions towards Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and realizations of clauses of the Document World fit for Children, the rights of children and women.

As the signatory state of the UN Millennium Declaration, Uzbekistan carries out its obligations to overcome the issues mentioned in MDG. The government recognizes an urgency and acuity of these problems in the context of national development.

In cooperation with donor community and civil society, Uzbekistan successfully facilitated an adaptation to the conditions of, as well as integration of MDG into the interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (I-PRSP). As the purposes of Country MDG and Interim PRSP are directed on increase of a standard of life, process of development of both documents supplement each other. MDG establish concrete bases for realization of Interim PRSP.

Below, there are recent years achievements on realization of the complex of purposeful measures on fulfillment of the above-named Documents. Thus the national targets, MDG tasks, as well as achievements are conditionally grouped on the following four set themes:

Experience and initiatives for improvement well-being of the children and speeding up the realization of

the (World fit for children) Action Plan and MDG.

Despite the mentioned in previous chapters of the Report special programs, action plans and governmental decrees regarding the children in Uzbekistan it became a good tradition to dedicate each year to certain direction, to work out special action plans.

On this basis the opportunities and strength of governmental, non-governmental and public structures, and also the sponsors and charities are being concentrated for the resolution of the concrete and well-targeted tasks.

The following should be noted:

• regardless which name has been given to the current year, either it’s related to family or women’s issues, or the education of healthy generation, or the improvement of the neighbourhood or the protection of the elderly peoples are concerned, the uniting and common point and criteria are that always in the centre of the attention is the individual, his life, hopes, joys and problems;
• special programs each year include the directions and complex of concrete measures to provide the interests and well-being of the children

For example, following chapters inside the yearly programs regarding the children should to be noted:

(The healthy generation) Program (2000)

• Improvement of the life conditions for the healthy family and development of highly moral atmosphere in the family;
• The enforcement of the attention and the care of the government, society and family to the birth of the healthy child;
• Improvement of the conditions for strengthening the health, betterment of the education and harmonious training of the children;
• Advancement of the social-economic status of the women in the family and society;
• Creation and development of the system of general education regarding the full parent’s responsibilities after the birth and the education of the healthy generation;
• Formation in the public consciousness of the psychology of high responsibility for the birth, education, training of harmoniously developed and healthy generation.
   

The program Year of mother and the child (2001)

• Creation of the necessary conditions for strengthening the health of pregnant women and birth of the healthy child, supervision and care for them using the modern medical equipment;
• Establishment of constant medical control over the child from the moment of his birth, protection him against negative influences posed a threat for his healthy development, regular inoculation against various diseases and other preventive actions;
• Maintenance of the correct physical and spiritual education for children from the infantile age, performance of the recommendations of the modern medicine, pedagogic and psychology in the each family;
• Amplification of the role of parents and tutors in the education process of the children during preschool age on the basis of traditions and customs which have stayed in the inheritance from our ancestors, in the spirit of respect for the national values, with application of modern methods of pedagogic, their wide acquaintance with rich and various environment;
• Creation to the children along with knowledge, the respectful attitude to the national traditions and values, and also the wide outlook, interest to the foreign languages and universal values especially during teaching them in the initial classes;
• Amplification of the role of mother and family in the education process of the child, in his physical and spiritual development up to attainment him to the age of majority and the indissoluble connection between the mother and the child in all these processes.

The program of Year of protection of interests of the elder generation (2002)

• Maintenance of active participation of the senior generation in transformations of a society, education of healthy generation,
• continuity and transfer to the youth of rich professional and life experience, kind traditions and cultural values;
• Perfection of an educational system and training of children, youth in the spirit of respect, reverence and care of parents and the senior generation.

The program Year of Mahalla (2003).

• Strengthening the social protection of needy families and support of young families;
• Improvement of medical and sanatorium services for population of Mahalla;
• Development of children's sports;
• Stirring up the Mahalla’s activity on spiritual - moral education of youth.

The program (Year of kindness and mercy) (2004)

Strengthening the family, protection of motherhood and childhood, education of youth in the spirit of respect for the elder generation.

The program (Year of the health)

• Improvement of the mother care and children’s health, reproductive health, advancement of the medical culture and the well-being of the family;
• Prevention of socially dangerous diseases;
• Provision of the population with pure and qualified water, and conditions for healthy lifestyle and protection of the environment;
• Development of physical training amongst all population, children’s, women and family sports.

The program (Year of charity and medical workers) (2006)

• Welfare aid and encouragement of needy families;
• Improvement of life conditions in the specialized establishments of social welfare and strengthening the material and technical base of educational establishments;
• Organization of treatment and health improvement of the needy citizens, children and disabled people.

The following initiatives for the nearest period should be noted:

1. Elaboration of the Year of Social protection State program for 2007. The mentioned program provides the implementation of a complex of measures directed on maintenance the social protection of vulnerable groups of the population. Realization of special measures related to problems of children is also provided on:

• strengthening the material base of Mehribonlik houses and specialized boarding schools, strengthening the attention and care of children who have lost the supporter, maintenance of a real embodiment in life of the noble slogan You are not alone;
• further expansion of measures on formation of physically healthy, spiritually rich generation, strengthening the care of motherhood and childhood, development of Healthy mother – healthy child movement;
• further perfection of the mechanism of stimulation and worthy estimation of labour of social service system workers;
• maintenance of the vital interests of youth, creation of conditions for display of their abilities and potential, support of young families by their moral and welfare stimulation at the stage of entry to the independent life, granting the preferential credits to young families.
   

2. Completion of the examination, acceptance and beginning the implementation of the National Program on ensuring the well-being of children in Uzbekistan for 2007-2011, which envisage the realization of measures developed under recommendations of the Committee of the United Nations on Children Rights after presenting the second periodic report on implementation of the Convention on the Children Rights (May 19, 2006).