Regional Capacity Building Workshop: Monitoring & Evaluation Tools & Mechanisms

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The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) clearly obliges the State Parties and other duty bearers to establish a mechanism through which the implementation of children's rights can be monitored and evaluated. However, more than one and a half decades have passed since the ratification of the CRC by nearly all the world's governments but no practical tools for rights-based monitoring and evaluation have yet been made available for programme practitioners.

In this context, Save the Children Sweden Regional Programme for South & Central Asia has initiated intensive work on developing child rights-based monitoring and evaluation tools and building the capacity of rights-based organisations in these tools.

Although monitoring and evaluation have conventionally been part of programme implementation by development agencies, they have not necessarily been based on child rights principles. However, considerable development has been achieved in this area by the development of the Global Impact Monitoring (GIM) approach spearheaded by Save the Children-UK. The dimensions of change in the GIM are based on the Child Rights Programming approach.

To explore how Save the Children members were applying various monitoring and evaluation tools, methods, mechanisms and processes Save the Children Sweden organised a regional workshop in October, 2004, in Kathmandu.

Based on the participants' recommendations a second workshop was organised in New Delhi from 25-29 July 2005. This workshop explored practical rather than theoretical applications of monitoring and evaluation.

The purpose of this report is to share the findings of the workshop and bring to light the challenges and opportunities involved in applying rights-based monitoring and evaluation. It presents various methods, which can minimise the challenges for effective programme implementation.

 

 

 

 

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/scs_rights_monev.pdf

Organisation: 
Save the Children Sweden, Regional Office for South and Central Asia
Attachment Link: 
http://www.crin.org/docs/scs_rights_monev.pdf

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