Child rights governance program

The Child Rights Governance Program assesses the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, increases children’s participation in matters that affect them, and makes sure that children’s voices are heard by the community, the media, and decision-makers.

The program continually monitors the situation of children's rights in Mongolia and has successfully facilitated projects such as Children's Participation: Essential for Good Governance, Positive Participation by Youth, and Young Voices Surveys, 1, 2 and 3.

We also support Mongolian children to speak out about child-related issues: on violence, neglect, discrimination, corruption, conflicts of interest, and poverty, and to develop channels to make their voices heard by decision-makers.

We led a partnership of civil society networks to prepare the NGO Supplementary Reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of Child on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and presented and discussed the findings of the reports with the Committee in Geneva.

To help increase investment in children, we created the illustrated handbook Budget Analysis for Children in 2014. The handbook introduces a basic understanding of state and local budgets in Mongolia, budget information channels, how budgets are formed and distributed, as well as simple methods for children to analyze budgets.

We implemented Phase II of the civil society sub-projects of the Mainstreaming Social Accountability in Mongolia project undertaken by the World Bank and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in 14 locations across the country.

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