work work work

I've not blogged for days now, which can only mean that I have been working!

Last week there was a three day meeting/ conference in Piggs Peak, a town about an hour and a half away from Manzini. The meeting was hosted by the National Children's Co-ordination Unit (NCCU). The aim of the meeting was to begin preparations for submission of the state party report to the Commission on the Rights of the Child, in Geneva. Civil society, government departments were available to collect information about the steps that the Swazi government has taken to implement the commissions recommendations to Swaziland in 2006. The are some challenges in presenting the information to the commission, caused by the over enthusiasm of the last report in which the Swazi Government may have overstated the protection of children's rights in the country.

Tomorrow is another meeting regarding the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals in Swaziland. All these international reports are due around the same time. It makes for an interesting over view of the situation in Swaziland, and also for a whole heap of quick reading to bring me up to speed.