• The situation for children ages 0 to 2 years old will improve due to a better undertaking of parents in their family's nutrition, hygiene, stimulation, and interaction. The children will be vaccinated against the principle childhood diseases. The children will grow up in a more wholesome environment in terms of health and security. Children whose parents both work during the day will be able to be left under appropriate supervision, close by and benefiting from regular observation;
• Children ages 3 to 5 years old will participate in development activities in appropriate and localized preschool centres. Through these activities, they will better prepare themselves for their entry into the elementary curriculum, thus reducing the chances of dropping out or being held back;
• School age children will become promoters of Children's Rights and health in their communities. In addition to the knowledge that they will gain and transmit to children and parents in their community, they will build confidence in themselves and will be better prepared for the future when it's their turn to be mothers or fathers;
• The populations in question will have gained knowledge in Children's Rights and in preventive health care;
• Adolescents at the end of their schooling and young adults will benefit from access to professional training corresponding to the job market;
• Families will have created or consolidated an activity that generates revenue and significantly augments their income and savings;
• The most disadvantaged families will have better access to existing services to resolve their problems. They will benefit from short-term personalized counselling as well as access to services established in their neighbourhood;
• At the local partner level, the technical capacities and the administration will be reinforced by access to training and continued analysis of the action through the framework of logical intervention;
• At the community level, the project will establish a network of people (preschool educators, parent committees, family advisors, FEAPA agents) trained and motivated to actively participate in the social development of their community. As they gain self-confidence, they will become stronger lobbyists and will be in a better position to demand real participation in the conception of development programs put in place by the municipal authorities;
• At the neighbourhood and district level, the project will be the occasion for the structures currently in place through the framework of the Urban Poverty Reduction Project by UN-Habitat to solidify their role in integrating the project's different activities in their development plans.
The project began in March 2004.
