Child-Responsive Budgeting: budget as an instrument for the realization of child rights Open Forum “The impact of the crisis on children in the south” Brussels, 28 May 2013 Maria Copani, UNICEF Brussels EU Office

Child responsive-budgeting I.Budget process and the realization of child rights II.Context analysis III.ODA response to crisis impacts IV.Increase “value for money” V.How UNICEF can help VI.How CSOs can help

I. Budget process and the realization of child rights DONORS BUDGET BENEFICIARY COUNTRY CIVIL SOCIETY Ownership Partnership Harmonisation/Coordination Focus on Results Trasparency Mutual accountability Realisation of child rights

Child-responsive budgeting: Quality information on policies, costs … transparency! Ensuring participation of stakeholders Conduct public expenditure tracking Analyze revenue and expenditure policies Fiscal space Advocate for social protection scheme I. Budget process and the realization of child rights

II. The context analysis (1): Identify how the crisis continues to affect vulnerable populations and children

Government Spending: Austerity measures Source: Ortiz and Cummins, “The Age of Austerity,” Initiative for Policy Dialogue and The South Centre, March 2013 Number of Countries Contracting Public Expenditures as a % GDP,

II. The Context Analysis (2): Rights-based Causality Analysis Causality analysis Immediate causes: stroke Underlying causes: no medicine in the clinic, no prenatal care Root causes: no MoH policy to ensure services; inadequate budget allocation to the district Context analysis Program impact evaluation Porgram design and monitoring Policy dialogue Right: maternal and infant survival ODA program: elimination of maternal and infant mortality Source: UNICEF-EC toolkit on Integrating Child Rights into Development Cooperation

III. Design ODA to Protect Children during Crisis Aid Modality 1. Budget support  Counter austerity measures that affect children  Price stability support programmes, if appropriate  Protect the number and compensation of frontline public sector workers  Ensure supply of essential drugs and medicines  Maintain or increase social protection Aid Modality 2. Programme support  Increase depth and scale of programmes that are most important to protecting child wellbeing  Nutrition/feeding support  Improving coverage of health services  Youth and adult employment generation schemes  Early childhood development programmes

IV. Increase “value for money” 1.Ensure money reaches intended beneficiaries: Monitoring public spending (and budget support) that are key to child outcomes  Child sensitive, real time monitoring of public expenditure at the local level, linking to central level --UNICEF is developing with World Bank Child-focused Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS) and Public Expenditure Reviews (PER) 2.Do more with less: Promote economy, efficiency and cost effectiveness in ODA programming and Technical assistance  A whole child view – their rights and needs are interdependent, mutually reinforcing, and inalienable – UNICEF’s Multiple, Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA)  Increase value for money by tackling overlapping deprivations  A stunted child will not be helped by nutrition support if her health deprivation is not address and she gets pneumonia, which will also cause stunting  Highly, multiply deprived children are most cost effectively supported through multi-sectoral, integrated interventions

MODA reveals highly, multiply deprived children

V. How can UNICEF help: Analyze crisis impact and apply child-rights perspective in the country context analysis Identify priority programmatic areas for children as crisis response Monitoring of public expenditures in the most vulnerable communities (UNICEF’s Monitoring for Equity Results System - MoRES) Support or provide MODA analyses and integrated interventions

VI. How can civil society help: entry points into the policy- budget cycle for engagement with key stakeholders

VI. How can civil society help Informed advocacy North-south / best use of networks Policy coordination across NGOs/coalition Monitor implementation of national strategy on child rights (across internal and external affairs) Promote key institutional arrangements (e.g. Minister for Children)

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