About — WCiA Project

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Why The Project

The World's Children in Africa (WCiA) Project – a child-focused social investment initiative of Net-Afrique Multiservices, is a child of circumstance; borne out of the need to prevent the sheer burden of the anticipated huge shift in world's child population towards Africa (according to UNICEF report), with its potential to undermine attempts to eradicate poverty and the marginalization of many children in Africa.

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What We Do

Activating potential sector's commitments via adequate sensitization and mobilization for investments towards the pressing needs of children, in order to help emancipate the millions of poor and vulnerable world's children in Africa, and their families.

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To What End

To ensure that the children are not left behind and devastated, thus becoming casualties of some health, education, and other disaster which may hinder their integration, survival and development.

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What You Need Know

There is a UNICEF report that there would be a huge shift in the world's child population towards Africa in 2030, with the proportion of child mortality et all, rising to around 70%, as Africa still accounts for about half of child mortality globally.
That despite significant achievements, millions of children are still left behind by the tides of progress.
That extreme poverty in the continent has undermined human rights, as well as the social and economic progress of the children, due to the fact that almost 47 percent of Africans are children under age 18, with a child dependency ratio of 73 children under age 15 per 100 persons of working age in 2015. This is against the backdrop that 4 in 10 of Africans, and almost half of Sub-Saharan African populace – about 60 percent – live below the international poverty line of US$1.25 per day.

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Uneasy Lies The Head

UNICEF, in 2012, fell short of funding, leaving millions of children at risk, as they appealed for 1.28 billion dollars in aid for Eastern and Southern Africa alone.
In 2014, UNICEF warned of a critical funding shortfall for its programs in Central African Republic, as it reported that it received less than half the funding it required in 2014 — some $42.7 million out of the $81 million requested — and had to disclose that it failed, in 2014, to help 620,000 people with basic healthcare, 250,000 children with access to clean water, 33,000 children with measles vaccines and 5,000 severely malnourished children under five, with treatment.

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The Imperative

It is imperative that Africa's poor families need be supported, by investing in their children, through a child–focused investment strategy in Africa, that will address thematic areas, amongst which education and health are paramount; as well as protection and participation mechanisms — so that the millions of poor and vulnerable children in Africa can realize their rights and potentials and become able to contribute to Africa's socio-economic and political growth.

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The Ultimate Aim

Is to enable the African continent reap the benefit of its children's contribution through equitable investment in children, and prioritizing the poorest and most disadvantaged.

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Failing Which...

In the coming decades, Africa risks experiencing an ever-widening disparities among its children, with negative implications for human rights, employment, sustained growth and political stability.

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