Monitoring the Regional Framework for Action for Children

Regional Framework for Action for Children Architecture Early Childhood Development Child Protection and Child Rights Child Health and Well Being Education and Development of Young People Children affected by Climate Change and Disasters Results and Priority Actions Performance Benchmarks Thematic Areas Example: 1.Comprehensive, sustainable and effective early childhood development programmes in all Member States 1a. All Member Countries develop and formally adopt comprehensive ECD polices with legislative and administrative reforms required for policy implementation. 1b. All Member Countries use CARICOM guidelines in the development of ECD Policy 1c. All Member countries harmonize early childhood terminology. 1.Member States formally adopt an Early Childhood Development (ECD) policy 2.Member States have national regulatory frameworks with standards for ECD services in place 3.Members States have an integrated ECD framework in place 4.Member States have ECD programmes that include social protection mechanisms for most vulnerable children, especially for those under three years 5.Member States have ECD programmes that include early interventions for children with special needs

Regional Framework for Action for Children Requirements Ability to monitor status against performance benchmarks of the RFAFC across all CARICOM member states – enhance mutual accountability Sharing of key policy documents, status reports and best practices – contribute to learning Extensible to other CARICOM frameworks / agreements, using performance benchmarks – expand to CARICOM cooperation Monitoring Commitments Expandability Regional sharing and standardization

Features CARICOM’s monitoring system 1 1 A web-hosted, device independent solution with a minimal learning curve 2 2 Organised by Focus Areas [e.g. Children, Youth, Trade, etc.] and Frameworks [e.g. RFAFC, CYDAP, etc.] 3 3 Rich Dashboards and reports for each framework, providing an overall dashboard, country dashboards and thematic dashboards 4 4 Data entered by Country Focal Points from Member States against performance benchmarks 5 5 Administered by the CARICOM Secretariat through a Framework Manager (Specialist) and Systems Administration (Webmaster)

Administration CARICOM’s monitoring system Framework One: Focus Area One: Children Basic Information /Content Management Guidance documents Thematic Areas and Benchmarks Country Focal Points Framework Partners System Basic Information / Content Management Global template Focus Areas and Frameworks Country focal point master list Framework Manager list Partner master list Framework Two: SYSADMIN FRAMEWORK MANAGER

Users CARICOM’s monitoring system Self registration Update status against benchmarks Upload relevant country documents Country Focal Points For the selected framework: View summary dashboards – overall, country or thematic View reports (including historical reports) against benchmarks Retrieve documents by thematic area, country, benchmark, etc. Share using Social Media All Users / Public (no registration necessary)

Dashboards CARICOM’s monitoring system Overall progress on the framework Progress by thematic area Current progress by country / thematic area Progress by benchmark type Trend over time in meeting benchmarks across countries Overall Progress by Country Progress by Benchmark Progress by Benchmark Type Total country documents uploaded Thematic Area

Dashboards CARICOM’s monitoring system Overall progress on the framework Progress by thematic area Current progress by country / thematic area Progress by benchmark type Trend over time in meeting benchmarks across countries Country

ANTIGUA 63% benchmarks completed 20% increase in the last 6 months 0% 100% 50% 63% CARICOM Average 45% Antigua Overall progress by thematic area (Antigua vs CARICOM overall) Overall progress by benchmark type and thematic area Reported status against benchmarks

Next Steps Demo Q&A Agreement on Country Focal Points for reporting on ECD, Education, Health, Protection and Climate Change Status update by 20 June. Document upload by 30 June