Concerted efforts of all government and non-government organizations concerned could be the effective means of ensuring requisite health services to all juveniles and adolescents for their proper and healthy grooming up.
“Besides, providing necessary information relating to reproductive health services to the adolescents is very important for elevating their level of confidence. Issues of health and hygiene need to be discussed elaborately,” said lawmaker Habibur Rahman.
Utmost emphasis should be given on transforming the young generation into worthy citizens, he added.
He was addressing a consultation meeting on the occasion of unveiling 3rd Strategic Plan: 2016-2020 of Light House at Hotel Baton Rouge at Banani in the capital recently as the chief guest.
Light House under its ‘Improved Justice and Legal Aid Services (IJLAS) project’ organized the consultation meeting under the Community Legal Services (CLS) Programme funded by UKAID through Maxwell Stamp-PLC.
More than 55 officials representing development partners like UKAID, USAID, Save the Children, GIZ, ICDDRB, NCSC, CARE Bangladesh and Asia Foundation, government entities and community based organizations were present at the meeting.
Additional Secretary of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Biman Kumar Saha and Additional Secretary of Ministry of Law and Justice Nasreen Begum spoke as special guests with Harun-Or-Rahsid, Chief Executive of Light House, in the chair.
Joint Secretary of Ministry of Public Administration Nazmul Huda, Chief of CLS Jerome Sayre and deputy chief Fatema Rashid Hasan, team leaders of Light House Zia Uddin Khan, Nicholas Biswas and Salah Uddin also spoke.
During his keynote presentation, KSM Tarique, Deputy chief executive of Light House, said some vital issues like human rights, justice and governance, health, nutrition and population, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihood and environment development and climate change were incorporated in the five-year strategic plan.
In his remarks, Additional Secretary Biman Kumar Saha said education on physical change, sex and reproductive health for the adolescents could prevent social crimes like militancy and terrorism. “We have more scopes of work in this field intensively,” he mentioned.
