Evaluation

• Child Impact Assessment
  • This publication is about Swedish experiences of Child impact analyses as a tool for implementing the UN convention on the Rights of the Child.
• Child Rights Programming Handbook - Save the Children
  • This handbook aims to provide an introduction to Child Rights Programming - Save the Children's approach to the use of human rights principles and standards in its work with children, their families, carers and communities.
• Children and Patricipation: Research, monitoring, and evalutation with children and young people
  • This publication is about participatory information gathering in the process of research, monitoring and evaluation with children and young people. Its purpose is to guide the reader toward sources of information rather than provide detailed descrptions of particpatory project work or involving children in advocacy or policy work. Key sources are therefor highlighted either after each piece of text, or at the end in the bibliography.
• Children living in poverty, A review of child poverty definitions, measurement, and policies - UNICEF
  • Is the issue of children living in poverty recognized by and incorporated into antipoverty strategies? Who are the children living in poverty? Have governments, civil society organizations, and international organizations identified them and adopted policies to reduce child poverty? Is the situation of girls living in poverty taken into account? Are poverty reduction policies following a human rights-bases approach? This paper addresses some of these and reviews different concepts regarding child poverty (e.g. different definitions of children living in poverty and efforts to measure child poverty).
• Children participation - Evaluating effectivenes - International institute for environment and development
  • This note examines issues surrounding the evaluation of children's participation. It considers: what happens when children have opportunities to play an active role in shaping their communities and the conditions for their own well-being; how to determine if these initiatives serve the ideals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; and how to make evaluation itself a partnership between children and adults.
• Concerted development of social cohesion indicators, Methodological guide - Council of Europe
  • This guide brings our concept of social cohesion to life, and provides us with something which is very visual: social cohesion indicators. Based on the definition given in the Council of Europe's Strategy for Social Cohesion that “social cohesion is the capacity of a society to ensure the welfare of all its members, minimising disparities”, the guide applies the core values of our Organisation to make a reality of social cohesion: namely access to rights for all, respect for dignity of others, the right for all individuals to have the opportunity for personal development, and participation in the democratic process.
• Developing indicators for the protection, respect and promotion of the rights of the child in the European Union
  • The indicators presented in this report provide an initial toolkit to evaluate the impact of already adopted EU law and policy on children’s status and experience across various fields. They highlight the limitations of and gaps in current provisions and data, providing a springboard for future legal, policy and research development. The indicators cover several areas of substantive law and policy, and complement and build on other efforts to develop child indicators and monitoring processes at EU level.
• Ex-ante analysis of the impact of proposed taxation changes on vulnerable children and families
  • To respond to the effect of the global economic crisis, the government of Serbia put under discussion a variety of fiscal reform measures, including an increase in the Value Added Tax.
    
    In 2010, UNICEF Serbia promoted an ex-ante analysis of the impacts of the announced taxation reform, to highlight the potential effects of that policy reform on the most vulnerable group of the societies, in particular the families with children.
    
    The aim of this research initiative is to enable UNICEF to open a debate on the costs and benefits of the proposed reform. Using a tax-benefit micro-simulation applied to the data on the Household Budget Survey, the analysis aims to assess how the poor segments of the population would fare if the proposed changes in taxation policies are put into effect and also the potential effectiveness and costs of compensatory measures to alleviate the adverse impacts.
• Experiences of Save the Children on Impact Assessment
  • This document provides lessons learned from the implementation of impact assessment by Save the Children.
• Global impact monitoring guidelines - Save the Children UK
  • The purpose of these Guidelines is to help you use Save the Children UK’s approach to monitoring and evaluation. They provide with guidance and practical ideas on:
    
    - SC UK’s way of doing impact monitoring and assessment (GIM)
    - How to use the dimensions of change
    - How to collect quality data and how to use it
    - How to perform Impact Review meetings – and learn from them
    - How to complete Impact Reports
• Guidance Note on Integrating a Child Focus into Poverty and Social Impact Analysis and UNICEF (2007) Bosnia-Herzegovina: Child Rights Impact Assessment of potential electricity price increases.
• Instrument for the Children’s Rights Programming monitoring process
  • This guide aspires to be an instrument that can contribute to individual and collective reflection in placing greater emphasis on the incorporation of children’s rights in Child Rights Programming (CRP).
    
    It is a practical document used in the workshops on Child Rights Programming that reflects the work of Save the Children Sweden in applying a rights-based approach on programmes and projects. In addition, the document is a guide that helps identify the situations, elaborate diagnoses and recommend the steps to follow.
• International Institute for Environment and Development, Children’s Participation – Evaluating Effectiveness, October 2001
  
• Integrating a Child Focus into Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA): A UNICEF - World Bank Guidance Note
  • UNICEF and the World Bank have jointly produced a Guidance Note on how to integrate a child focus into PSIAs. The publication describes how different policy reforms may affect children and their families, when a detailed child-focused assessment may be warranted, a variety of quantitative and qualitative assessment methods, mitigation strategies to protect children from the negative impacts of a given policy, and strategies to include children’s perspectives in the PSIA process, among others.
• Menu of outcome indicators - Save the Children UK
  • A guidance note for developing monitoring and evaluation indicators for Child Protection, Education, Health & HIV, and Hunger Reduction projects and programmes. This guide should be useful for developing indicators and M&E; plans for thematic programme plans (TPPs) and also for donor funding proposals.
    
    The guide should complement local context and expertise. It provides good example indicators rather than a prescriptive list and does not cover indicators for every situation. The guide should be read alongside other SCUK key programme guidance documents.
• Monitoring and Evaluation of Children's participation in development projects
  • A guide created by Save the Children Sweden and the School for Development, offering tools for building indicators of children's participation.
    
    The document is divided into the following sections:
    
    chapter one develops the conceptual background of child participation assumed by Save the Children Sweden, upon which this proposal is based.
    Chapter two shows the methodological proposal as such, and chapter three presents the results of the application of this proposal in the organisations that participated in the validation process.
    These results can be taken as a source of reference for the application of other experiences.
• Operational guidance on taking account of fundamental rights in commission impact
  • The Operational Guidance on Fundamental Rights is for Commission staff preparing impact assessments and for impact assessment support units. It begins by describing the ‘Key context and background’, addressing a number of central questions on dealing with fundamental rights. The second section traces the methodological steps of standard impact assessments and, for each step, looks at how fundamental rights aspects should be taken into account.
• Report on indicators for promoting and monitoring the implementation of human rights
  • This report was prepared to undertake validation of the approach on the use of statistical information in States parties’ reports, develop further list of indicators and submit a report on this work. This report outlines the adopted conceptual and methodological framework for identifying the relevant quantitative indicators.
• Rights-based Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Over the past years many development agencies have begun to adopt rights-based approaches (RBA) in their work. With the growing popularity of these approaches comes an increasing demand for rights-based tools for planning, monitoring and evaluation.
    
    This discussion paper provides a framework and identifies the main principles, processes and implications of rights based monitoring and evaluation. As a result, it does not go into much detail on more specific topics, such as monitoring advocacy or evaluating child participation.
• UNICEF and world bank resource pack on integrating a child focus into proverty and social impact analysis
  • This Resource Pack is a complement to a Guidance Note based on a longer draft toolkit for analyzing the impacts of economic and social policy reforms on child rights (Marcus and Birdi 2010). This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union.