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A
Demonstration Project for Improving the Status
of Children and Women through
Integrated Participatory Community
Developmen
Over the past decade, the Islamic Republic of
Iran has made significant progress in the areas
of child and maternal survival and well being.
By 1995, the nation as a whole had successfully
achieved most of its mid-decade health goals
that were based upon the Year 2000 Goals of the
World Summit for Children.
Despite successes at the national
level, disparities between different provinces
and regions continue to exist. Most of the south
and south-western provinces such as Sistan-Baluchistan,
Hormozgan, Kohgiluye-Boyer Ahmad, Ilam and
Kurdistan, have lagged behind in the development
process.
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The communities for this demonstration project
have been chosen from the Kurdistan, Kohgiluye-Boyer
Ahmad, and Hormozgan provinces of Iran on the
basis of their relative state of deprivation as
compared with national standards, and as agreed
to by the provincial authorities. A wide
variety of local and regional characteristics
are covered including: social/ethnic (settled
rural, nomadic, and urban peripheral),
livelihood/economic (agricultural, pastoral,
wage-labourer, fishing), and
ecological/geographic (marine coastal, highland
agricultural, rangeland, urban). |
