About TransMonEE
Strengthening child rights data and monitoring across Europe and Central Asia
The availability and access to reliable evidence and the latest knowledge on children is a fundamental step in safeguarding their rights.
A regional partnership for better child data
TransMonEE is a three-decade-old regional partnership between UNICEF and National Statistical Offices (NSOs) across Europe and Central Asia. It works to strengthen the availability, quality, disaggregation, accessibility and use of data on children, supporting a better understanding of their rights and well-being.
The partnership is aligned with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Sustainable Development Goals and brings together national and international partners to improve how data on children are collected, analysed and used. TransMonEE provides a platform for NSOs, UNICEF, policymakers and other partners to share knowledge, strengthen technical capacity and identify opportunities to improve child-related statistics across the region.
From a data network to a regional data platform
Over time, TransMonEE has evolved beyond its original role as a network for collecting and strengthening national child-related statistics. While the partnership and annual data collection with NSOs remain an important part of its work, TransMonEE now brings together a much broader range of data, analysis and child rights monitoring resources.
The TransMonEE website serves as a central hub for this work, bringing together national and international data, analytical tools and resources that support child rights monitoring and help strengthen the evidence available on the situation of children across Europe and Central Asia.
Strengthening data for child rights
TransMonEE works with countries and partners to improve the availability and quality of child-related data, with a particular focus on disaggregation and on children who may be overlooked in official statistics. Through collaboration among data producers, policymakers, international organisations and other experts, the initiative supports stronger national data systems and more consistent, comparable evidence across the region.
The work of TransMonEE contributes to:
- Strengthening technical and methodological capacity to produce and use child-related statistics.
- Improving data availability, quality and comparability across countries.
- Promoting data disaggregation to identify inequalities and disparities between and among groups of children.
- Supporting collaboration between NSOs, UNICEF and other partners to strengthen child rights monitoring and the use of evidence in policy and decision-making.