The strategy will be refined to ensure that the poorest and underserved children are being reached.

Within the focus states, most disadvantaged communities will be targeted for convergence of interventions, using the integrated community-based recovery and development (ICRD) approach, under the United Nations joint programming framework, to increase development results for underserved children and women.

For disadvantaged and underserved children, greater support was evident, with 110 programme countries in 2008 incorporating measures to reduce disparities due to poverty, ethnicity and disability in their education plans.

Additionally, 25,241 underserved refugee children and young people took advantage of various training or tutoring and skills-building activities in computers, languages, leadership training, sports, theatre, music, and summer and winter camps.

UNICEF-assisted programmes have been able to advance the human rights-based approach, reaching children normally underserved.

(a) Intensify its efforts to establish a national central database on children and develop indicators consistent with the Convention in order to ensure that data are collected on all areas covered by the Convention and that they are disaggregated, for example, by age, sex, urban and remote areas, and by those groups of children who are in need of special protection (i.e. children living in underserved geographical areas, children with disabilities, children born out of wedlock, child victims of violence, abuse and exploitation, malnourished children, child victims of substance abuse, children in conflict with the law, etc.);