1. Global Trends in Child Rights Indicators Presentation to Thai Government, UNICEF and NGO colleagues Bangkok February 17 th, 2014 Dr. Philip Cook Executive Director of International Institute for Child Rights and Development, Royal Roads University, Canada

2. Children’s Indicators: Global Trends Previous indicators focused mostly on child survival and traditional “sectoral data” such as health (U5MR), education (school enrolment) outcomes Role of CRC in advancing the importance of data on children as a right and strategic importance in planning, budgeting, M&E and advocacy Every child counts Rights based approach, every child’s universal and inalienable rights Llife span approach Broader human rights, development and humanitarian agenda

3. An Ecological Approach to Child Rights Systems Change

4. Global Indicators, State Party Reporting and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Monitoring the implementation of the CRC and the 3 Ops Highest authority for interpreting data on children 18 independent experts Meets 3 times a year for 4 weeks

5. Work of the Committee Examination of progress made and difficulties encountered in fulfilment of States Parties obligations under the CRC Examination of the two Optional Protocols to the Convention General Discussion Days on thematic topics General Comments on particular CRC provisions and/or issues Upon the coming into force of the Optional Protocol - individual complaints

6. Overall structure CRC Report 8 Clusters: General Measures of Implementation Definition of the Child General Principles Civil Rights and Freedoms Family Environment and Alternative Care Disability, Basic Health and Welfare Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities Special Protection Measures.

7. Human Rights Indicator Guidelines Developed by UNOHCHR Structure: Laws, policies Process: Programs, initiatives Outcomes: Children’s lived experience, impact data

8. Current trends Child level outcomes: Child well being, child participation MDG’s and Post MDG’s: Children in a broad development agenda Equity, social inclusion and social determinants: Filling the gaps, evidence informed social policy Creating an overarching integrated framework for child rights indicators: Global Reference Group on Accountability to children’s rights (GRGA)

9. Current trends: Well being and child participation Child Well Being Research: UNICEF, Child Well Being Research Society (Asher Ben-Arieh et al) Inter-agency initiative on child participation guidelines and indicators: Scope, Quality, Outcomes (G. Lansdown, Save the Children, World Vision, Plan International) IICRD CAPE (World Vision, Plan) World Vision, Plan International, IICRD – Most vulnerable children

10. Child Protection: Child participation in monitoring and evaluation Drawing on IICRD and Columbia University experience in CP M&E New child and youth centred approaches to CP M&E (IICRD CAPE) Community engagement in CP M&E (Wessells) Rights based approaches to CP M&E (CRC GRG, CPCLN, CP MERG, GC 13)

11. Future Child Rights Indicators: Using ICT and Social Media POI: Combines GPS, text (qualitative and quantitative) and photographic images Maps risk and protective factors (people, places, social spaces), temporal, spatial and social Triangulation of data sets and capacity to disaggregate date Participatory, youth adult partnerships Can be used to link community research with local, provincial and national advocacy

12. General Trend: Children as objects to children as partners

13. Thank You More information: International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) University of Victoria Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 Tel: (250) 472-4762 Fax:(250) 853-3215 Email: philip.cook@iicrd.org