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Exercise: Child Rights Mainstreaming through CRBA – What is it?
Please:
1. Download the table in .doc format.
2. Describe the five key elements of child rights mainstreaming through CRBA in the right-hand column of the table below.
3. Send it via e-mail to your tutor.
| Child Needs Approach | Child Rights Mainstreaming Through CRBA |
| A need is a legitimate desire. Initiatives for children are undertaken based on moral necessity. There is no guiding framework and no legal obligation to protect or fulfil needs. |
| The focus of policy and programming is on the needs of targeted children. Services are generally provided to address the needs of targeted children. Coverage and access to services are often used as measures of success. |
| It is assumed that adults know what children need and will meet those needs. The relationship between adults and children tends to be unidirectional with adults providing and children receiving |
| Needs provision can be very simple and direct, addressing immediate problems (e.g. food aid for malnourishment) as well as complex and multi-dimensional. |
| Children are passive beneficiaries of assistance – they do not have to participate or be empowered to have their needs met. |