{"id":119,"date":"2017-06-16T04:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T04:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charityplus.spyropress.com\/demo-4\/?p=119"},"modified":"2017-06-16T04:06:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T04:06:54","slug":"education-for-the-children-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emmanuelcharities.org\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Education for the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

An open letter to the UN Statistical Commission and Inter-\u00adAgency Expert Group on SDG Indicators<\/strong><\/p>\n

21 September 2015<\/p>\n

The signatories of this document welcome Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda\u00a0 for Global Action<\/a> and applaud all involved for including many of children\u2019s holistic needs, including health care, education, and protection from violence, exploitation, and abuse. We wholeheartedly support the intention to \u2018leave no one behind\u2019 in the post-\u00ad2015 global development agenda. To ensure that this is so, it is important that the global monitoring framework includes mechanisms to assess the most vulnerable and hard to reach populations.<\/p>\n

Indeed, all children count, but not all children are counted. As a result, some of the world\u2019s most vulnerable children \u2013 those without parental care or at risk of being so; in institutions or on the street; trafficked; separated from their families as a result of conflict or disaster; or recruited into armed groups \u2013 have largely fallen off the UN\u2019s statistical map. There are only limited data about how many children live in such precarious circumstances, except for scattered estimates from some specific countries.<\/p>\n

According to UNICEF\u2019s 2015 Progress for Children report:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the world prepares for a new development agenda, data and evidence will only increase in importance and national systems must be strengthened to meet new demands. The new data agenda will need to harness the potential of new technologies to collect, synthesize and speed up the use of data, and also reinvigorate efforts to ensure complete and well-functioning registration systems. The new data agenda will need to provide insight into the most vulnerable children, relying on household surveys that provide data regardless of whether or not a child attends school or is taken to a health facility, as well as developing new approaches for collecting information about children who are homeless, institutionalized or internally displaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

With this in mind, we, the undersigned, recommend the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Ensure that children living outside of households and\/or without parental care are represented in disaggregated data.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When assessing States\u2019 progress in improving the lives of children, living arrangements and caregiving environments are key markers for vulnerability, risk, and disadvantage. Children without parental care often experience abuse, neglect, lack of stimulation, and extreme and toxic stress, all of which have a profoundly negative effect on children\u2019s health, education, development, and protection.<\/p>\n

    If the post-\u00ad2015 agenda is to leave no one behind, it is essential that the global monitoring framework includes methodologies to ensure that children living outside of households and\/or without parental care are represented and that data is used to inform targeted, appropriate, and accessible interventions.<\/p>\n

    Data disaggregation by care\u00ad\u2010giving setting\/living arrangement is key to tracking progress for all children, particularly regarding Goals 1, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 16. This is critical to a) analysing how trends differ between children living outside of households and\/or without parental care and the general child population; and b) ensuring that programs and policies prioritize the most vulnerable children. Data collection should reflect the goals and definitions included in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children.<\/p>\n

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    1. Improve and expand data collection methodologies to ensure all children are represented.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The Committee on the Rights of the Child has urged all States to develop indicators and data collection systems consistent with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, children living outside of households and\/or without parental care are not covered in current mainstream data collection processes, which rely on household\u00ad\u2010based surveys such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (USAID) and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (UNICEF). Innovative approaches must be developed to assess the conditions of the world\u2019s most vulnerable children. The global monitoring framework must include mechanisms to track progress for all children, including those who are currently invisible as the result of inadequate indicators and data collection systems. The post-\u20102015 global monitoring framework must establish mechanisms to integrate household\u00ad\u2010based data with additional information on children temporarily or permanently living outside of households. In some countries, such data already exist although, to date, such data have not been routinely collected or analysed. The post-\u20102015 global monitoring framework offers an opportunity to do more and better on behalf of the world\u2019s most vulnerable children \u2013 ensuring, first and foremost, that they are no longer invisible.<\/p>\n

      Thank you for your consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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