Summary:

This Advocacy Toolkit has been prepared by the NGO Group for the CRC to support those who are interested in joining the campaign for a communications procedure under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It contains background information about the campaign, lists of campaigning and lobbying activities you could undertake at national level, questions and answers, a glossary and a feedback form.

http://www.crin.org/docs/Advocacy_toolkit_December2009.pdf

How to use this Advocacy Toolkit

This Advocacy Toolkit has been prepared by the NGO Group for the CRC to support those who are interested in joining the campaign for a communications procedure under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

It contains background information about the campaign, lists of campaigning and lobbying activities you could undertake at national level, questions and answers, a glossary and a feedback form.

For this campaign to succeed, it is crucial that we all join forces. The NGO Group for the CRC is coordinating the campaign, particularly in Geneva at UN level. As a network, our aims are to strengthen links between national and international advocacy and lobbying actions.

Tell us what you think about this Toolkit

We would very much appreciate any comment you might have on this Advocacy Toolkit and especially we would like to know how you use it, what you find most helpful and if you think that other aspects of the campaign should be addressed. Please email Anita Goh, the NGO Group for the CRC Advocacy Officer at the UN, at goh@childrightsnet.org with your comments.


Further information

• Download the toolkit in pdf and  Word format
• OHCHR page on the WG meeting
• Ratification Table country by country of existing complaints mechanisms
• Further news and information about the campaign
  

Thank you
A very special thank you to The International Coalition of NGOs for an Optional Protocol on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for allowing us to use some of their materials in order to develop this toolkit. Find out more about them here: http://www.escr-net.org/

Previous CRIN Guides and Toolkits items

• 16/11/2009: Children's Rights: A Guide to Strategic Litigation
• 16/11/2009: WHY should you consider bringing strategic litigation?
• 16/11/2009: WHEN would you bring strategic litigation?
• 16/11/2009: WHO can bring strategic litigation?
• 16/11/2009: WHERE would you bring strategic litigation?

Contact Information:

Email: goh@childrightsnet.org

Last updated 03/12/2009 09:04:10

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