Data and Child Rights

Data plays a critical role in advancing child rights, providing the necessary insights for informed decision-making and policy development within UNICEF's operations in Europe and Central Asia. By harnessing comprehensive data, we can better understand and address the complex challenges facing children across the region.

Leveraging this data-driven approach, the ECA Child Rights Monitoring Framework emerges as a promising and ambitious initiative to universally monitor and advance child rights. With its comprehensive structure, the framework offers a holistic approach to statistics, data and analysis on children and can inform national discussions on selecting indicators to measure the country’s progress for children with important policy implications. The ongoing efforts, including indicator mapping and planned consultations with NSOs, national statistical systems, and regional stakeholders, will help solidify progress toward a regionally coherent and impactful tool. 

Alongside the CRM Framework, the  Data and Child Rights page features the CRC Recommendations Dashboard. This interactive dashboard collates the most recent recommendations from the Committee on the Rights of the Child to 54 State parties. Additionally, the page includes a dashboard showcasing national child rights mechanisms across the region and several data products related to child-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These resources include dashboards on SDG progress and the availability of child-related SDG data, as well as the ECA Child Inequity Dashboard, which highlights disparities within the region.