Child Rights Programming

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Child Rights Programming
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Fighting injustice, exploitation and abuse
alleviating suffering
Charity Relief Development Alleviate
poverty Economic growth Redistribute
resources Access to services
Limited Change
Child development Childrens individual
development
Human rights Laws, law enforcement Moral values
Share power Social and political activism
Fundamental change
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Human rights
Agreed internationallegal standards
Moralstandards
Responsibilities at all levelsindividualcommuni
tyinstitutionsstateinternational
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Principles of child rights programming
Childrens participation
Best interests of the child
Children are right holders
Children claim their own rights
Accountability for childrens rights
Consider the broader context and address root
causes
Consider all of childrens needs and abilities
Include all children Fight discrimination
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Principles of Child Rights Programming
Children are rights holders Accountability for
childrens rights
Participation - children (as rights holders) take
an active part in claiming their rights
Equity, non-discrimination, inclusion
Best interests of the child
Children in the broader context Address root
causes
Whole child - consider all of childrens
needs Indivisibility of rights
   
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Principles of CRP

• Children are right holders and social actors
• States, institutions and adults are responsible
  for childrens rights
• Promote childrens rights to have their views
  considered and to claim their rights (child
  participation and childrens civil rights)
• Fight discrimination and promote inclusion of all
  children (age, gender, ability, ethnicity,
  origin)
• Consider childrens best interests in the short
  and long term
• Indivisibility of rights consider all of a
  childs needs and abilities
• Address root causes and consider children in the
  broader social, economic, political and cultural
  context

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Principles of CRP (elaborated)

• Children have rights
• Children take active parts in shaping their
  families, communities and environment
• Governments, institutions, adults and children
  are responsible for childrens rights
• Children have rights of access to information,
  freedom of expression and freedom of association.
  By exercising these rights children can take
  active parts in realising their own rights
• Include all children and fight discrimination
  based on differences between children (gender,
  ethnicity, ability, etc.)
• Promote child-friendly approaches that are in
  childrens best interests in the short and long
  term
• Consider all developmental needs and abilities of
  the child
• Address the factors that lie at the root of the
  violations of childrens rights
• Consider children in the broader social,
  economic, political and cultural context

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Charity Development Rights-based development


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Right- responsibility - claim

• Duty bearer

Claims right from
Fulfils responsibility towards
Right holder
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Responsibility analysis
Duty
Duty bearer
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Fulfil
Obstacles
Overcome obstacles
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Responsibility analysis

• What is the problem (related to children)?
• Which rights are unfulfilled?
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• Who is responsible for the right?
• What are the obstacles for realising the rights?
• Why are those responsible not meeting their
  obligations?
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• How can the right be fulfilled?How can the
  obstacles be overcome?How can duty bearers be
  held accountable?
• ?
• Prioritise who can make the biggest change (at
  each level)?

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Example responsibility analysisRight education
Prioritise who can make the biggest change at
every level?
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HIV/AIDS - Responsibility analysis
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HIV/AIDS Causal analysis
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Trafficking

• Responsibilities
• Who is responsible for trafficking?
• Parents
• Traffickers
• Pimps and brothel owners
• Customers
• Police and judges
• Government departments...

• Causes
• What are the causes of trafficking?
• Poverty
• Gender
• Parents own children
• Lack of information
• Lack of education
• Crime
• Corruption

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Exercise responsibility analysis
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Accountability for childrens rights

• Fulfil rights and address rights violations (does
  not necessarily strengthen accountability of duty
  bearers)
• Strengthen accountability for childrens rights
• Advocacy for change in policies, laws and
  programmes
• Strengthen law enforcement
• Lobby for increased budgets and resources for
  childrens rights at all levels
• Public education and campaigning for change in
  awareness, behaviour and practices
• Human rights monitoring and reporting
• Incentives and sanctions to hold duty bearers
  accountable (build them into projects, programmes
  and policies at all levels)
• Overcome obstacles to rights and to
  accountability for rights
• People (including children) demand their own
  rights

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Purpose of childrens participation

• Children form their own movements and
  organisations to claim their rights
• Change power relations between children and
  adults
• Develop children to become democratic citizens
• Promote childrens civil rights (expression,
  thought, information, organisations)
• Recognise children as right holders
• Develop childrens abilities, confidence,
  independence
• Develop childrens ability to protect themselves
• Improve childrens learning
• Understand children better
• Develop better policies and programmes for
  children

• Social and political movements
• Human rights
• Child development
• Development

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Accountability for childrens civil rights

• Which civil (participation) rights are
  unfulfilled (information, expression,
  association)?
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• What are the obstacles to their realisation?
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• Who is responsible for their realisation?
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• How can the obstacles be overcome to realise
  childrens civil rights?
• (institutional practice, adult behaviours and
  attitudes, laws, practical work with children...)

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Childrens participation civil rights
children claim their rights

• Work with children this transforms the power
  relationship between children and adults
• Raise awareness and develop skills in childrens
  participation among children and adults
• Promote childrens civil rights (information,
  expression, association) in every project,
  programme, organisation, policy, law, family,
  community
• Overcome obstacles and increase the space for
  childrens participation in decision making at
  all levels of society and in all institutions
• Support children and adult right holders to claim
  their rights

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Goal, focus, approaches, linkages
Activities and Approaches
Link different sectors and departments
Link work at different levels
Goal linked to rights (focus)
Activities and Approaches
Activities and Approaches
Organisational linkages and partnerships
Link approaches (practice and advocacy)
Activities and Approaches
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Prioritise

• What are the biggest obstacles to realising
  childrens rights?
• Who can make the biggest difference for
  childrens rights (at all levels)?
• What action (by us) will make the biggest
  difference for childrens rights?
• Do we have the right priorities strategies,
  actions, targets, partners?