Child Rights Monitoring Framework

The Regional Child Rights Monitoring Framework (aka the CRM Framework), spearheaded by UNICEF, is pivotal in advancing the monitoring of child rights. 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, with definitions for each available here. 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 policymaking and strategic interventions, the CRM Framework facilitates the identification of gaps, enabling targeted efforts to safeguard and realize the rights of all children.

This digital platform showcases the 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 dialogues 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. Feedback on the framework is welcome and can be shared by clicking the button below.

Explore the indicators of the CRM Framework by clicking on any domain or sub-domain displayed in the portal below, or view the domain and sub-domain definitions here: