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Monitoring CRC-GC7: Rights in Early
Childhood
Clyde Hertzman
Human Early Learning Partnership
on behalf of the
GC7 Monitoring Group
Why monitor CRC GC: 7 in
Canada?
Sensitive Periods in Early Brain
Development
Pre-school years
High
School years
Numbers
Peer social skills
Language
Symbol
Habitual ways of responding
Emotional control
Vision
Hearing
Low
0
1
2
3
4
Years
5
6
Graph developed by Council for Early Child Development (ref: Nash, 1997; Early Years Study, 1999; Shonkoff, 2000.)
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Life Course Problems Related to
Early Life Experiences
2nd
Decade
• School Failure
3rd/4th
Decade
• Obesity
5th/6th
Decade
Old Age
• Coronary Heart • Premature
Disease
Aging
• Teen Pregnancy • Elevated Blood
Pressure
• Diabetes
• Criminality
• Depression
• Memory Loss
What influences
early child
development?
The experiences
children have in
the environments
where they grow
up, live and
learn.
The Early Development
Instrument
What Does the EDI
Measure?
What the maps
reveal…
Large local area differences in the
proportion of developmentally
vulnerable children
What the maps
reveal…
The high proportion of avoidable
vulnerability
Commission’s
recommendation
‘equity from
the start’
Rationale for linking
ECD to Rights
Build upon the monitoring capacity of the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child to
orchestrate a global conversation on supporting
child development ‘from the start’.
UN-CRC GC:7 Indicators
2005:
indicators group forms; approaches CRC Monitoring
Committee; argues that GC:7 is impractical/underused and
there is a need for user-friendly and useful GC:7 indicators
2006: CRC Monitoring Committee invites group to develop
indicators that would assist States’ reporting and promote
CRC GC:7 realization
Who is involved in CRC GC:
7 Indicators group?
HELP
CRC
UN-CRC
GC-7
Indicators
Group
SOS-K.
Intl
BvL
AKF
WHO
CGECCD
UNICEF
ICC
Why a General Comment on Rights in
Early Childhood?
In response to the
observation that
children<8 were
often overlooked
in States Parties’
reporting
Where discussed,
references were
limited to child
mortality and …,
neglecting the
broad scope of
child right
The States Parties simply
overlooked their
obligations towards
young children
Why indicators? Why monitoring?
Procedural rights
vs
Substantive rights
Why indicators? Why monitoring?
Procedural rights = immediate realization
Substantive rights = ‘progressive
realization’
Why indicators? Why monitoring?
CRC:GC7 is mostly about substantive rights
You can only tell if there is ‘progressive
realization’ by monitoring over time.
Monitoring can create a bridge between
population health and human rights.
UN-CRC GC:7 Indicators
2005:
indicators group forms; approaches CRC Monitoring
Committee; argues that GC:7 is impractical/underused and
there is a need for user-friendly and useful GC:7 indicators
2006: CRC Monitoring Committee invites group to develop
indicators that would assist States’ reporting and promote
CRC GC:7 realization
2006-2008: indicators of GC:7 are developed, merging
population health and rights cultures
CRC GC: 7 Indicators were meant to:
•Assist States Parties with preparation of
their report to the Monitoring Committee
•Monitor the progressive realization of
rights in early childhood
We created15 Indicator Clusters matching CRC
reporting guidelines
•General Measures of Implementation (4)
1. Dissemination of GC7
•Civil
rights and and
freedoms
(1) the positive agenda
2. Constructing
implementing
Birth registration
3. Human Rights training
•Family environment and alternative care (2)
4.
collection
systemdecision making
1. Data
Participation
in household
2. Violence
children
•Basic
healthagainst
and young
welfare
(3)
1. Basic material needs
2. Child survival
and health
•Education,
leisure
and cultural
3. Age-appropriate health education
1. Early education service provision
activities (4)
•Special
protection
(1)
2. Educational
service measures
provision for vulnerable
Inclusive
policy and
provisions
for vulnerable
groups
3. Knowledge
of right
and capacity
to support
it
4.
Play, leisure and rest opportunitites
Structural Components of Indicators
No
Are there policies in place to ensure that both
primary and pre-school provisions are suitably
child-centered, child-friendly, rights based, and
aligned with the GC7 principles and the aims of
education?
Steps to have such
policies in place
No
Develop
policies
for
Are
there
processes
to evaluate and
Provision
of
appropriate
improve human resources as far as the early
early childhood education
Steps to have such
policies in place
education system is concerned?
No
Suggestions
Steps to investigate
lack of response
Suggestions
Are there improving trends in children’s
development measured by cognitive,
physical
mobility, training,
andhealth, and socio-emotional
outcomes?
recruitment.
Develop policies
to promote equal access (for boys and
girls)
to these services
collect population
financial or nonlevel baseline data
financial
on ECD
compensations
Suggestions
If data exist, investigate
potential causes for this lack
response by data disaggregation
Are there improving trends in children’s development measured by cognitive, physical health, and socio-emotional outcomes (DHS, MICS, EDI, etc.)?
Are there improving trends in children’s
development measured by cognitive,
physical health, and socio-emotional
outcomes?
ON
Steps to investigate
lack of response
collect population
level baseline data
on ECD
EDI data collection around the world
www.offordcentre.com
Suggestions
If data exist, investigate
potential causes for this lack
response by data disaggregation
BC annual EDI data
http://www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/EDI/maps_bc.html
What the manual provides
Introduction
Relevant CRC articles
Key question
Indicators unpacked
Structural indicators
Process indicators
Excerpts
from
concluding
observations
Outcome indicators
Flowchart and
suggestions
Indicator table
Country
example
Where to look
for data
Duty bearers
Words of caution
CRC GC-7 Indicators
• May 2008: GC:7 indicators were presented to the
monitoring committee
Piloting Strategy
Low income: Tanzania
Middle income: Chile
High income: Canada (?)
Child Right
Convention
General
Comment
7(GC:7)
Implementing
child right in
early childhood
GC:7
Indicators
Implementation
manual of GC:7
indicators
Pilot
testing
the
manual
Objectives of the pilot
•To test the relevance and feasibility of each indicator
•To further refine the indicators and the flow charts
•To understand whether or not the process serves as a
means of national, institutional self-study
Potential benefits for pilot
country
Awareness raising
How many “No”s, how many “Yes”s in the system?
Capacity building
How to turn “No’s to “Yes”s?
•
Better reporting system
How to use “Yes”s and “No”s
• to describe the status of child
rights in the country and communicate it to UN-CRC?
TTotal Number of Documents Provided
32
policy
58
programm
Process
74
outcome
Capacities recorded for main clusters of CRC during TZ-Pilot
Achievements
1.A combined human and technical process
Technical aspect -- a thorough inventory check of the
existing capacities around CRC in 3 months!
Human aspect -- strengthening and enhancing the
quality of the inter-ministerial relationships
2.Engaging traditionally under-represented key CR
players
3.Positive impact on ongoing CR projects
Challenges
1.GC:7 an unknown document
2.Existing data is archived in an unknown place
3.In the absence of outcome data the quantified
information may oversimplify the country’s
situation
4.Computerization would increase efficiency
For the Chile pilot
Development of an electronic version of
the manual to:
reduce labor-intensiveness
reduce reliance on external technical
support
provide a template that compiles the
evidence for CRC reporting
For the Chile pilot
Take the pilot right through the intersectoral appraisal of information and
report writing.
To be completed by Sept-Oct of 2011, in
time for revisions.
The sequence of events of pilots
• Feasibility assessment
• Creating an MOU
• Recruiting the Task Force (TF); creating
advisory/management structure
• Training the TF
• Data collection – 3-4 months time window
• Midterm evaluation
• Data review
• Wrap up meeting & Summary
What has been required of a TF member?
• Attending 3 meetings with the entire pilot team; training,
midterm, wrap up meeting.
• Attending approx. 6 meetings with the team; 2 meeting per
month during the 3 months of data collection period.
• Time commitment of about 5 hours a week for working on
the indicators and compiling data.
The Forward Plan
• Revise in light of Chile experience
• Pilot in an upper income country…Canada????
• Final indicators and implementation
manual to CRC Monitoring Committee
• Have indicators promulgated for use in all
193 signatory countries
•
• Use our template for the balance of the
Convention and General Comments
For further info:
visit the Global Knowledge Hub for ECD at :
http://www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/
or contact [email protected]