Child Rights Governance
SC’s Child Rights Governance (CRG) work focuses on using our evidence to achieve positive outcomes for children by ensuring strengthened and accountable government systems, influencing child-sensitive policies and implementation practices that ensure positive outcomes for children. SC leverages its reputation, technical knowledge, existing partnerships, and convening power to build national and county-level movements of civil society organisations (CSOs), associations, networks, and coalitions, bringing together the public, civil society and private sector to drive the child advocacy agenda. Our advocacy employs the following approaches:
- System strengthening – collaborating with national and county governments to strengthen planning and implementation systems; and improve equitable public services for children
- Child rights legal frameworks advocacy – supporting the creation of stronger national infrastructure for children based on the measures of implementation recommended by the UN Convention of Child Rights (UNCRC) and other instruments.
- Policy advocacy – advocating for formulation of child sensitive policies that enhance positive development outcomes for children
- Budget Advocacy - advocating for an increase in budgets in programs that prioritize children’s survival, protection and learning.
- Child participation – Amplifying children’s voices and advocating for and with children to give effect to the shifting power agenda and localization.
- Child Rights Reporting Advocacy - monitoring and drafting reports under the various reporting mechanisms that support child rights including the UNCRC, Universal Periodic Review (UPR), African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – all of which duty bearers are responsible for upholding.
