USAID releases Action Plan on Children in Adversity

On Wednesday, USAID, "along with representatives from seven government agencies and departments, [launched] the first-ever, whole-of-government strategic guidance on international assistance for children in adversity," a USAID press release reports. The goal of the guidance -- titled "United States Government Action Plan on Children in Adversity: A Framework for International Assistance: 2012-2017" and drafted by the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor, and State, USAID and the Peace Corps -- "is to achieve a world where all children live and grow up within protective family care and free from deprivation, exploitation, and danger," the press release states (12/17).