Where child rights have been mainstreamed in the identification, formulation and implementation phases of a programme, monitoring and evaluating child rights realisation is greatly facilitated because monitoring and evaluation exercises will focus on comparing progress and performance against existing plans and budgets.

Where child rights have not been mainstreamed in the programme identification and formulation phases, it may be necessary to commission special analyses and studies which focus specifically on determining effects and impacts on specific groups of girl and boy children. In this case, the UNICEF/World Bank Child Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) methodology and tools are useful (see Identification section above and UNICEF & World Bank Resource Pack on Integrating a Child Focus into Poverty and Social Impact Analysis).