Increase awareness of family issues among Governments as well as in the private sector. IYF would serve to highlight the importance of families; increase a better understanding of their functions and problems; promote knowledge of the economic,social and demographic processes affecting families and their members; and focus attention upon the rights and responsibilities of all family members;
Strengthen national institutions to formulate, implement and monitor policies in respect of families;
Stimulate efforts to respond to problems affecting, and affected by, the situation of families;
Enhance the effectiveness of local, regional and national efforts to carry out specific programmes concerning families by generating new activities and strengthening existing ones;
Improve the collaboration among national and international non-governmental organizations in support of multi-sectoral activities;
Build upon the results of international activities concerning women, children, youth, the aged, the disabled as well as other major events of concern to the family or its individual members.
