Child-Friendliness Index
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About
The African Child-friendliness Index was developed by the African Child Policy Forum in their 2008 report The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2008: How child-friendly are African governments?
The perspective taken to design the index was that the state plays a critical role in ensuring child well-being through social inclusion, basic services provision as well as its regulatory and oversight role over non-state welfare provision. The Index quantitavely assesses child rights and well-being. The measurement thus provides an indication of how important children are in governments' policy agenda. The concept of child-friendliness builds on three pillars of child rights and well-being: protection, provision and participation. This approach is based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
The dimensions of the Child-friendliness Index
The three dimensions of the index are protection, provision and participation.
- The first dimension, protection, is proxied by the legal and policy network, that is split up in two components: Ratification of international and regional legal instruemnts relating to children and national laws/policies/mechanisms.
- The second dimension, provision, is proxied by the following two components: budgetary commitment sub-dimension and child-related outcomes.
- The third dimension is participation.
See also
External links
The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2008: How child-friendly are African governments?
