Policy Framework

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Policy Framework
Partnership 2000 Overall objective Poverty
reduction Three cross-cutting issues Human
rights and democratisation, gender equality, and
environment Focus areas Globalisation,
conflicts, children and young people,
hiv/aids Denmark will help to give children and
young people in the developing countries a future
in which they will be able to develop and exploit
their human potentialChildren and young people
are the key resource on which a country can draw
to create sustainable, long-term development, and
they must therefore be ensured central status in
the development activities
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The Priorities of the Danish Government for
Danish Development Cooperation

• A World of Difference
• Promotion of human rights, child rights,
  democratisation and good governance
• Prioritising of social sectors i.e. education,
  health, water and sanitation
• Security, Growth - Development
• Confirms strong emphasis at rights based approach
  and social sectors

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Overall framework for the guidelines

• Point of departure Convention of the rights of
  the Child
• Millennium Development Goals overall framework
• Target group MFA/Danida, Embassies, NGOs,
  international organisations
• Aim A more direct focus at children and young
  people in Danish development cooperation.
  Responds to Danish policy and international
  development agenda
• Integral part of AMG.

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Danish support to Children and Young People

• Multilateral
• Support to UNDP, UNICEF
• EU
• Security Council
• Bilateral
• Sector programmes and sector budget support
• Thematic programmes and projects
• NGO assistance

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Millennium Development Goals and children and
young people in conflict

• Fulfilment of six og eight goals depend on
  children and young people
• Guidelines include focus of Danish development
  assistance and examples of intervention
  mechanisms
• Example Goal 2 Achieve Universal Primary
  Education
• Focus Prioritise education and gender equality
  in education, disadvantaged children, quality,
  capacity building, awareness building, and
  education in cloflict situations
• Intervention mechanisms Multilateral Support to
  EFA, UNICEF. Bilateral National policy and SPS.
  Other NGO

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Implementation and monitoring of the guidelines

• Suggested approaches and guidelines for programme
  planning, capacity development, programme
  management and monitoring, and institutional and
  policy development
• Danish reporting on Millennium Development Goals
• See e.g. Danidas Årsberetning

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Implementation and monitoring of the guidelines II

• When children and young people aspect constitutes
  a major, critical and strategic element of a
  project or programme, it can be monitored
  through
• Country and sector assessments
• Annual Business Plan indicators
• Part of performance review
• Dialogue meetings
• External review five years from the date the
  guidelines have taken effect