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2. PROGRAMME
•
Introduction: Marc Dullaert – Founder and Chairman of
KidsRights
•
Methodology: Dinand Webbink – Professor of Policy
Evaluation, with specific focus on Health, Education
and Strategic Philanthropy at Erasmus School of
Economics
•
The Specific Role of the UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child in the KidsRights Index: Karin Arts –
Professor of International Law and Development at
International Institute of Social Studies
2
4. INTRODUCTION
•
57 million children have no access to school
•
1 in 6 children in the developing world is
undernourished
•
Worldwide 168 million child labourers
4
5. THE KIDSRIGHTS INDEX
•
First global Index
•
Focus on child rights (vs child wellbeing only)
•
Updated yearly
•
Country-ranking
•
Basis for policy recommendations
•
Concrete and easy to understand
5
6. METHODOLOGY
Dinand Webbink
Professor of Policy Evaluation, with specific focus
on Health, Education and Strategic Philanthropy
at the Erasmus School of Economics
6
8. DATA COLLECTION
Existing data sources:
1. The State of the World‘s Children 2012
(UNICEF)
2. Concluding Observations of the Committee
on the Rights of the Child (United Nations)
8
10. INDICATORS PER DOMAIN (1)
1. Life:
• under 5 mortality rate
• life expectancy at birth
• maternal mortality ratio
1. Health
• % of under five year olds suffering from
underweight
• immunization of 1 year old children
• % of population using improved sanitation
facilities (urban and rural)
• % of population using improved drinking
water sources (urban and rural)
10
11. INDICATORS PER DOMAIN (2)
3. Education
•
primary school participation
•
secondary school participation
•
primary school enrolment ratios
(female as % of male)
•
secondary school enrolment ratios
(female as % of male)
•
survival rate to last grade of primary (female as % of male)
•
primary school net attendance ratio (urban and rural)
4. Protection
•
child labour
•
adolescent birth rate
•
birth registration
5. Child Rights Environment: 7 qualitative indicators
11
12. 165 COUNTRIES
The KidsRights Index ranks 165 countries, which
are all that:
1. Ratified the Convention on the Rights of the
Child
2. And for which enough data is published in the
State of the World’s Children 2012
12
13. COMPUTING THE SCORES (1)
1. Standardize all indicator scores in between 0
(low) to 1 (high)
2. The score of each domain is the average of the
indicators
3. All five domains have equal weight in the final
score
4. The final score is the geometric average
5. Missing data: the average per domain is based
on that of the other indicators
13
15. RESULTS
Ranking of countries and clusters:
• For all domains together
• For each of the 5 domains separately
Colour coding:
blue, green, yellow, orange, red
15
22. ROLE OF THE CRC
Karin Arts
Professor of International Law and Development
at the International Institute of Social Studies
22
23. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CRC
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
• Nearly universally ratified standard for
children’s rights: 193 states parties
• Child rights-based framework for action
• Basis for a state reporting procedure
to the Committee on the Rights of the
Child; generating concluding observations
23
24. THE CHILD RIGHTS ENVIRONMENT (1)
• CRC also outlines general dimensions that
should be in place in a country
• Captured in domain 5 of the KidsRights Index:
child rights environment
• 7 qualitative indicators
24
25. THE CHILD RIGHTS ENVIRONMENT (2)
a. the extent to which the general principles of the CRC
are operationalized:
- non-discrimination
- best interest of the child
- respect for the views of the child/child participation
b. the extent to which there is a basic ‘infrastructure’ for
child rights policy, in the form of:
- enabling legislation
- best available budget
- collection and analysis of disaggregate data
- state-civil society cooperation for child rights
25
26. DOMAIN 5: COMPUTING THE SCORES
•
These elements were traced in the Concluding Observations issued
by the CRC Committee for all states parties to the CRC
•
And coded by ISS:
- where the Committee was unequivocally positive: a score of 3
- where the Committee came to a mixed assessment of positive
and negative elements: a score of 2
- where the Committee was unequivocally negative: a score of 1
•
Standardized into a value between 0 and 1, in conformity with
scores for domains 1-4.
•
Results in a unique qualitative addition to the quantitative
domains of the KidsRights Index
26
27. RESULTS
1. Ranking of countries and clusters: for all domains
(1-5) together and for each of the 5 domains
separately.
1. It is a very different measure than e.g. basic
economic
or social indicators.
2. Domain 5 has a large impact on the ranking of states.
3. ‘Rich’ countries do not necessarily rank high and
some ‘poor’ countries manage to do relatively well.
27
28. STRIKING RANKINGS
Relatively Highly Ranking States
1. Portugal KRI 1 (HDI 43)
2. Thailand KRI 18 (HDI 103)
3. Egypt KRI 43 (HDI 112)
Relatively Low Ranking States
1. Germany KRI 20 (HDI 5)
2. Canada KRI 60 (HDI 11)
3. Australia KRI 26 (HDI 2)
4. New Zealand KRI 75 (HDI 6)
5. Italy KRI 82 (HDI 25)
6. Luxemburg KRI 100 (HDI 26)
7. Brunei Darussalam KRI 109 (HDI 30)
28
29. STRIKING COUNTRY RESULTS:
calculation example domain 5
• Thailand ranks 18 in the KidsRights Index (while it is 103 in
the HDI): positive example
• Italy ranks 82 (while it is 25 in the HDI: negative example
– Specific scores Thailand and Italy on domain environment
29
30. FINDINGS
The KidsRights Index draws attention to the fact
that:
1.There is a lack of many data about the situation
of children, all over the world, for example on
child abuse
2.Much more could be done with existing data
(through systematic review, analysis and followup action)
30
31. USE OF THE INDEX
•
Tool to stimulate public opinion and debate on
children’s rights
•
Tool for governments, civil society and other
stakeholders to take action
•
Country specific policy recommendations
(phase 2)
31
32. AMBITION & NEXT STEP
Ambition:
•To develop the KidsRights Index in the coming
three years to be a renowned frame of
reference for monitoring the status of children’s
rights across the world.
Next step
•User-conference March 2014
32