Transcript Child Rights Toolkit Comprehensive Toolkit To Address Children's Rights In Development & Humanitarian Cooperation And Government Programming.

Child Rights Toolkit
Comprehensive Toolkit To Address
Children's Rights In Development &
Humanitarian Cooperation And
Government Programming
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Rationale for the Project
 To develop high-quality tools and training package
around a whole series of child rights issues with the aim
to improve the capacity of targeted stakeholders and key
actors to:
• identify and address child right issues in their
work
• better integrate children's rights into a whole
range of relevant political, legal, budgetary and
programmatic actions and structures
 To strengthen strategic partnerships around child rights
by bringing together UNICEF HQ, field offices, the
European Community (EC), NGO partners and
academic institutions together on children’s rights
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What is the Child Rights Toolkit?
 A series of tools to incorporate a child rights dimension
into the typical processes and actions
 development practitioners apply when advocating and
programming around children
 donors use to address development cooperation and
humanitarian aid interventions
 governments use to make policy choices and implement national
policies
 Accompanied by:
 Global training programme to build capacity in 10 selected
locations
 Global conference in Brussels
 Website development
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Opportunities
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 To further explore, develop, and
support UNICEF capacity to
implement many MTSP FAs & cross
cutting issues around:
•  Social Budgets, Children & Society
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 Family Support, Social Protection
 Legislative Reform
 CRC/CEDAW linkages
 Child Participation
 Capacity Building & Knowledge
Management
•  Child rights in emergencies and
transition
•  Cross-cutting areas
 To provide additional programming
tools
 To strengthen partnership with other
UN agencies, academics, think tanks,
NGOs, children & young people …4
Child Rights Resource Handbook
• Provide an overview of the international framework for
children’s rights and supporting institutions (such as the
Committee on the Rights of the Child, and Council of
Europe);
• Provide links to recent studies, emerging policy debates,
child rights case studies and commissioned work;
• Highlight key areas of children’s rights and emerging
debates that are relevant to development professionals
and national governments in developing countries.
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Child Rights and Governance
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Built around the following premise --- child rights cannot
be fully realized without effective, transparent, and
accountable governance mechanisms. At the same time,
a primary test of any good governance interventions
should be the extent to which they promote and fulfill
child rights.
• Bring together the child rights and governance agendas
and identify linkages between good governance and the
realization of child rights.
• Chart out specific policies and initiatives that will show
how governance interventions can contribute to the
realization of child rights.
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Child Rights in PRSPs/NDPs
• Develop methodologies and comprehensive policy
recommendations to incorporate child rights into both the
content and process of developing PRSPs, NDPs, as
well as SWAPs.
• Provide recommendations on how the policy orientation
addressing the underlying child poverty situation is
aligned with commitments under the CRC, MDGs, and
other international commitments.
• Identifying policy entry points for engagement by key
stakeholders in PRSPs, policies, and budgets.
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Child Rights Impact Assessment
A child rights impact assessment (CRIA) is a process
that as a first step, identifies which programmes or
polices may have a “significant impact” on children and
then, as a second step, examines what those potential
impacts on children may be. The CRIA process is
intended to apply to a wide range of programmes and
policies, including beyond those that are specifically
targeted at children (such as education, health or
juvenile justice), to include programmes and policies in
“non-traditional” child sectors (i.e. agriculture or
transport).
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Child Friendly Budgeting
• Identifies and develops ways to systematically assess
the impacts of budgetary allocation and leveraging a
larger proportion of the national budget for
implementation of the CRC.
• Offers strategies and recommendations on improving
government commitment, understanding and
accountability of budgetary resources made available for
children and their families towards the protection and
promotion of child rights.
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Child Rights in Emergencies and
Post-crisis Transition
• Provides guidance on addressing child rights
across a range of crisis situations, in conflictaffected fragile states and post-crisis transition –
pulling together a coherent picture of key child
rights issues in these circumstances.
• Illustrate through case studies the application of
the HRBAP in various emergency situations.
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Legislative Reform for Child Rights
• Demonstrates how to undertake legislative reform for the
creation of a legal framework that enables the realisation
of child rights.
• Provides guidance on how to harmonise domestic
legislation with international instruments, standards and
norms.
• Offers recommendations on how to ensure that
legislation is effectively enacted, implemented, utilised
and enforced.
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Children’s Participation
• Provide guidance on good practice from a range of
sources on engaging and empowering children and
young people to take part in policies and programme
development, reflecting their right to be heard and
participate in the decisions that impact upon their lives
as laid out in Article 12 of the CRC.
• Offers practical guidance to those working with children
on helping children develop their capacities for
participation.
• Highlights the normative and practical basis of the
benefits of participation for policy makers and duty
bearers.
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Working with Civil Society on Child
Rights
• Offers guidance to key stakeholders on how to clarify
their objectives and strategies for working with civil
society on child rights programs.
• Demonstrates through case studies how CSOs have
helped translate the principles of the CRC into concrete
actions designed to realize child rights at the
international, national and community levels.
• Proposes evidence-based strategies for leveraging civil
society partnerships to achieve results for children.
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