About Sharjah Child Friendly Office
Sharjah-Baby Friendly Emirate Campaign Emiri Decree (4) For 2011.
As a subsidiary of the Sharjah Health Authority (SHA), SCFO was established in 2011 under the directives of HIS HIGHNESS SHEIKH DR. SULTAN BIN MOHAMMED ALQASIMI, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah. The entity collaborates and partners with local and international entities to design and implement targeted strategies aimed at ensuring that the rights of children and youth of all ages and nationalities – including children of special needs – are met, and to promote and sustain the emirate as a child, youth, and Baby family-friendly city.
Bolstering Sharjah’s position as a pioneer in providing support, care, and quality services to children of all ages, SCFO priorities the wellbeing and development of children and upholds their rights in accordance with the highest international standards and guidelines.
The emirate of Sharjah’s pioneering efforts and accomplishments in recognizing and prioritizing children’s rights led to its being conferred with a prestigious accolade from UNICEF, making it the first city in the Middle East to become a Child Friendly City (CFC), and the first in the world to win the title after successfully meeting the new international requirements and criteria launched by UNICEF in 2018.
Adapting UNICEF‘s global Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) model, SCFO has since accelerated Sharjah’s integrated child-friendly approach to all services provided for children and youth as it builds on Sharjah’s vision to be a leading global model for child-friendly cities.
SCFO is today the official body tasked with granting ‘Child Friendly’ and ‘Baby Family Friendly’ accreditations to relevant entities in Sharjah and the UAE, and works with national and international organizations to implement accreditation programs to further promote children’s rights.
Main Goals
Sustaining Sharjah as the
first Baby, Child & Family
Friendly City in the region.
Releasing Baby, Child &
Family Friendly policies &
standards.
International visibility.
METHODOLOGICAL GOALS
Quality management to maintain standards of the office.
Ensure continuous monitoring and coordination on the performance indicators.
Ensure continuous monitoring and coordination on the performance indicators.
Support and improve projects that target Children, youth, and families.
Support and improve projects that target Children, youth, and families.
Our ACHIEVMENTS
Sharjah won Guinness Book of World Records for ‘the most children in one cut-out board’ by setting up a 50-metre-long wall at Al Majaz Amphitheatre Island to celebrate 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Certification on ISO 9001:2015 for Quality Management System and ISO 26000:2010 for Guidance on Social Responsibility.
“Sharjah Standards for Child-Friendly Schools & Nurseries” launched at the RewirEd Global Education summit / Expo 2020 Dubai.
Sharjah Child Friendly Office honored by the League of Arab States and the Arab Council for Childhood and Development in recognition of the partnership in preparing the “Guide to Correcting Wrong Terms and Images about Children in the Media”.
Sharjah Child Friendly Office released “My Childhood in Fifty Years’ Time” story in collaboration with Ministry of Community Development.
Our Team
