Summary:

NGOs have an important role to play in contributing to encouraging governments to give priority to the rights of the child and to fulfilling their commitments.

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NGOs have an important role to play in contributing to encouraging governments to give priority to the rights of the child and to fulfilling their commitments.

This guide is meant to be a practical tool for helping NGOs forming and sustaining child rights Coalitions. It contains ideas on how to promote Coalition building, methods of child rights advocacy and examples of how NGOs could use the monitoring mechanisms, particularly the reporting process to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (NGO Group for the CRC) is a network of international NGOs committed to supporting the sustainment and active work of children’s rights Coalitions in the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

This summary was written by Mayya Assaad for the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN). The full Guidelines are available at: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=1790&flag=report

See also:

• Guide for NGOs reporting on the implementation of the the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children
• Networking in the Child Rights Community
• A Guide for Non-Governmental Organizations Reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

Previous CRIN Guides and Toolkits items

• 19/12/2006: A Guide on human rights based approaches to programming [Arabic]
• 25/10/2006: Alimentación de lactantes e infants en casos de emergencies: Guía operativa para personal de apoyo de emergencias y gerentes de programas
• 11/09/2006: Manual de los Procedimientos Especiales de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas
• 18/05/2006: Guía para denunciar delitos de explotación sexual comercial de niños, niñas y adolescentes
• 04/05/2006: Çocuk Hakları için Ağ Kurma Çalışmaları: Hükümet Dışı Kuruluşlar (HDK) için Kılavuz

Organisation Contact Details:

Child Rights Connect (formerly the NGO Group for the CRC)
1 rue Varembé
1202 Geneva
Tel: + 41 22 740 47 30
Email: secretariat@childrightsnet.org
Website: www.childrightsnet.org

Last updated 02/12/2013 11:57:42

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