African Child Charter Project Consortium (2024-2028)
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This support is for the work of a consortium of six child rights organisations: Plan International, Save the Children, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights (DOI), African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) / Mouvement Africain des Enfants et J...
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This support is for the work of a consortium of six child rights organisations: Plan International, Save the Children, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights (DOI), African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) / Mouvement Africain des Enfants et Jeunes Travailleurs (MAEJT), and the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), which is also the coordinator of the consortium and Sida's agreement partner. Since 2010, the consortium has had a joint action plan, the African Children's Charter Project (ACCP), to promote children's rights within the framework of the African Union's work. Sida has supported the implementation of the action plan since its inception. Support in this phase focuses on three emerging challenges facing children in Africa: children's rights and climate change, rights of children with disabilities, and children's rights and businesses. Through ACCP, the consortium contributes to strengthening the capacity of civil society organisations working on children's rights, stimulating collaboration and engagement, as well as influencing African governments to fulfil their commitments and enabling governments to ensure the protection of children's rights through improved policies, standards and programmes. The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) is an independent, non-profit, pan-African organisation that promotes policy change to advance the rights and well-being of children in Africa. The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) was founded in 2003 as an independent, pan-African organisation promoting policy change to improve the well-being of children in Africa. The organisation is guided by the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is inspired by African values and perspectives and based on the realities of African children and global knowledge.
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The program has an overall objective:- Contribute to creating an Africa fit for children, where governments fully meet their obligations under the ACRWC and where CSOs, adults and children can actively ensure accountability. This project addresses three thematically specific area of problems: 1) the limited efforts in prioritization of child rights in climate policy and action, 2) the gross neglect of the rights of children with disabilities, 3) the widespread abuse and exploitation of children in business practice as a result of weak policy and regulatory framework and implementation, to ensure the protection of children's rights from adverse impacts of business operations, and 4) the insufficiency of cross-regional, cross-country and cross-sectoral collaboration on climate change and child rights, rights of children with disabilities and child rights and business. The project aims to address these problems and contribute to creating an Africa fit for children, where CSOs, adults and children can actively ensure accountability and where governments fully meet their obligations under the ACRWC (desired impact). It does so by enhancing States capacities to fulfill their obligations to develop and enforce policies, standards and programmes for ensuring protection of children in the context of climate change, for protecting the rights of children with disabilities and for safeguarding child rights within business practices (outcome 1). It also does so by increasing the capacity of CSOs/child-led organisations to engage with AU mechanisms, RECs, State Parties and business related networks, with a particular focus on child rights and climate change, rights of children with disabilities and child rights and business (outcome 2). To enable a conducive environment in which both States and CSOs can actively advance the realization of children's rights in the context of climate change, disabilities and business practices, the first two outcomes are complemented by a third one which targets the work of the ACERWC, other AU mechanisms and RECs. More concretely, the project will enable the ACREWC and other AU mechanisms and RECs to develop and promote Pan-African and regional policies on child rights and climate change, rights of children with disabilities and child rights and business. Outcomes 1, 2 and 3 are interlinked and mutually enable their successful accomplishment. This means that advancements of governments to effectively integrate a child rights perspective in their law and policymaking on climate change, disabilities and businesses will allow CSOs and child-led organisations to be more effective in their work, and vice versa. The Embassy has observed that the program has included three very broad thematic areas (Child Rights and Climate; Child Rights & Disability and Child Rights and Business) which can stand on their own which might complicate the program a bit, but by the discussion made with ACPF, the Embassy is convinced that the synergy and the long years of experience among the huge child rights organizations will help in achieving the liklihoodof effectiveness and meeting the objectives.
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