Child Rights Monitoring Framework
A holistic and coherent approach to monitoring child rights.
The Europe and Central Asia Child Rights Monitoring (ECA CRM) Framework, spearheaded by UNICEF, is pivotal in advancing the monitoring of child rights across the region. By aligning with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it comprehensively addresses a wide array of child rights through structured domains and sub-domains. This approach underscores the importance of a holistic view on child rights monitoring as consistently recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, highlighting the complexity of challenges children face, including cross-cutting issues like gender, disability, and environmental impacts. The framework's crucial role lies in providing a unified and standardized method for evaluating child rights progress, ensuring inclusivity and equity, thereby ensuring that systemic barriers do not sideline any child. As a key instrument for evidence-based policy-making and strategic interventions, the ECA CRM Framework facilitates the identification of gaps, enabling targeted efforts to safeguard and realize the rights of all children in Europe and Central Asia.
This digital platform showcases the ECA CRM Framework's proposed indicators, that can gradually become a core list of measures to monitor child rights in the region. It details each indicator's name and metadata, allowing for a thorough exploration of the framework's extensive approach to safeguarding children's rights. Aimed at facilitating stakeholder consultations, the platform provides an accessible way to evaluate the indicators' relevance and completeness, critical for effective monitoring. Importantly, the platform also highlights areas within the framework where some sub-domains currently lack measures, emphasizing the need for targeted data collection and research to address these gaps.
This platform also plays a key role in fostering regional dialogue among data experts, child rights practitioners, and stakeholders, promoting a collective effort to refine and advance child rights monitoring. Through such collaboration, we aim to build a robust and impactful child rights monitoring approach across Europe and Central Asia.