Children
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
CRIN maintains an up-to-date resource page that provides a collection of key publications on rights-based programming specific to child rights. Some of these documents sourced by CRIN, and their respective abstracts are also identified below.
CRIN has also compiled a Reader on Children and Rights-Based Approaches to Development Programming that collates a valuable summary of resources to obtain grounding in the RBA theory generally and in the area of child rights. It includes references for key legal instruments, best practice documents, policy and advocacy instruments and tools for monitoring and reporting. http://www.crin.org/docs/CRIN-reader-5.pdf
Child Rights Programming – How to Apply RBAs to Programming
With Special Emphasis on Child Rights Programming.
Joachim Theis, Save the Children, Second Edition, July 2005.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child – with its principles of survival and development, best interests, non-discrimination and participation - is the guiding framework and reference point for this handbook. The handbook describes the key features of child rights programming and then shows how these link to children’s human rights.
It is not a training manual as such, but is meant to serve as background material at training workshops on child rights programming. It demonstrates how the Convention on the Rights of the Child can be used as the basis in the programming cycle and as a tool for advocacy and change.
The handbook has five sections: the human rights framework; rights based approaches; the principles of child rights programming; child rights programming in practice and follow up suggestions on promotion and skills sharing in developing child rights based programmes, including those working in emergency and refugee situations
Principles into Practice: Learning from Innovative Rights-Based Programmes
CARE International UK, September, 2005.
As CARE International seeks ever more effective ways to work towards eradicating poverty, it has been testing methods of incorporating rightsbased approaches (RBA) into its development programmes. This report and the individual project summaries are an account of some of those innovations and the lessons learned from them. Throughout this report, we understand a rightsbased approach to mean a deliberate and explicit focus on enabling people to achieve the minimum conditions for living with dignity – in other words, achieving their human rights. The review of 16 RBA projects from Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burundi, Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Thailand gives us concrete evidence of what RBA looks like in context and in practice. Other important aspects of RBA, such as the use of human rights law and the scaling-up of interventions are also considered.
Rights-Based Monitoring and Evaluation – a Discussion Paper
(With Special Emphasis on Child Rights Programming)
Author: Joachim Theis, Save the Children, September 2002.
This discussion paper explores the implications of rights-based programming, especially that focused on child rights programming. Its aim is to identify the key principles and processes of a rights based framework for monitoring and evaluation; to develop and adapt a small number of related tools to be tested within existing projects and programmes; and to identify where it is possible to integrate child rights-based monitoring and evaluation frameworks into existing child rights programming
The contents cover: the implications of rights-based programming and its principles for monitoring and evaluation; the impact on people and their rights, accountability, participation, equality and non-discrimination; effectiveness and organisational implications. The handbook also gathers together examples and tools for rights-based M&E, for example: learning networks and audits
A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming for Women and Children in Viet Nam: Key Entry Points and Challenges
Author: Christian Salazar-Volkman, UNICEF.
Asian nations and socialist countries are often referred to in international discussions as especially difficult environments for the realisation of human rights. Viet Nam falls into both categories: it is an Asian society and a socialist one-party State. This case study examines the conditions for and experiences with “human rights-based programming” for children in Viet Nam. This case study presents a situation analysis on child rights in Viet Nam. It identifies keystrategies and entry points, as well as challenges and future topics for progress in rights-based programming in the country. It is the first case study of its kind in East Asia.
Setting the Standard: A Common Approach to Child Protection for International NGOs
Author: NSPCC.
This document lays out a series of standards based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child intended to provide a basis for agencies to develop effective safeguarding measures for children impacted upon by their programming in emergencies. Whilst prompted by alleged sexual exploitation of children by aid workers in West Africa, it provides an example of the ways in which rights based standards can be operationalised into the approach of agencies and as such, is an example/template for others.
OHCHR - Committee on the Rights of the Child
The CRC meets annually for a Day of General Discussion to foster a deeper understanding of the contents and implications of the Convention as they relate to specific articles or topics. After the discussion, the Committee adopts recommendations that are useful for guiding the implementation of child rights and thus provide ideas and means for HRBA programming.
http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/discussion.htm
The Right to be Heard - 2006
This report covers the discussions and recommendations of the Committee for the implementation and observation of Article 12 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. It identifies this article as an ‘integral’ part of the Convention and necessary for the implementation of the other articles. It provides guides for how and to what lengths States should be going to, to ensure child participation – important considerations for HRBA programming.
Children Without Parental Care – 2005
This report summarizes discussions aimed at improving implementation of the Convention on this topic and identifies practical solutions and steps for ensuring that the rights of children living without parental care are respected. The two working groups focused on: the States’ role in preventing and regulating separation, and meeting the challenges of out-of-home care provision.
Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood - 2004
This report highlights the importance of early childhood development, and provides measures through which to support this process and ensure the observance of rights related to this stage of life for children. Several articles from the Convention have been selected and looked at in closer detail into their relation to this rights theme.
The Children’s Development Bank E-newsletter
This Quarterly e-newsletter is meant for people who are committed to the cause of children within the Right’s perspective. This is mainly to focus on one of the initiative of Butterflies, an organization implementing a Programme for Street and Working children, called The Children's Development Bank.
Being, Becoming and Relationship: Conceptual Challenges of a Child Rights Approach to Development
Sarah C. White, University of Bath, 2002.
Children and Young People as Citizens: Partners in Social Change International Save the Children Alliance, South and Central Asia, 2004. (Abstract only)
Children First in the Poverty Battle! A Review of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers in the Southern African Region, from a Child Rights Perspective
Shirley Robinson. Save the Children Sweden, March 2003.
The Transformation of the Quality of Life Through Human Rights-Based Approach Community Based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
Kamchezdera, Garton, The Government of Malawi, UNICEF, Department for International Development, May 2003.
A Human Rights Approach to UNICEF Programming for Children and Women: What it is, and some changes it will bring
UNICEF, April 1998.
Children Changing Their World: Understanding and Evaluating Children's Participation in Development
Jason Hart, Jesse Newman and Lisanne Ackermann with Thomas Feeny. Plan International, June 2004.
Training Manual on Childs Rights Programming
Tibebu Bogale, Save the Children Sweden, 2002.
Introducing the Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child - and "The Checklists."
Rachel Hodgkin and Peter Newell, UNICEF, 2005.