Introduction

• Alternative Report on the State of Child Rights in Pakistan - Save the Children UK
  • Example of an alternative report. This report has been prepared by Save the Children UK (Pakistan office) and the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC). It reflects the views of a number of civil society organisations working for child rights across the country.
• Child rights situation analysis for Middle East and North Africa Region
  • This regional situation analysis, which is guided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), explores the violation of child rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The study covers 17 countries in the MENA region, and concentrates on strengthening civil society organisations to be able to identify gaps in ensuring child rights in the region, report child rights violations, and take action to raise awareness and advocate for the fulfilment of these children&'s rights.
• CRIN - Child Rights Information Network - NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Search Alternative Reports
  • A list of alternative nongovernmental organization reports on CRIN website.
• CRIN - Child Rights Information Network - Regions - Country A - Z
  • Legislation on child rights by country on CRIN website.
• Child Rights Situation Analysis
  • A situation analysis forms a basis for planning of programmes, projects, or strategies. It involves collecting relevant information to assess the context of the problems, identify key issues, and establish priorities. The document contains seven tools: Tools on Sources of Information; Tools for Analysis of Child Rights Violations and Gaps in Provision; Tool for Government Institutions and International Frameworks Analysis; Tool for Causality Analysis; Tools for Power and Gender Analysis; Tool for Identification and Selection of Duty Bearers; and Tools for guiding writing of the child rights situational analysis (CRSA).
• Eldis’s Children and Young People Resource Guide
  • Eldis’s Children and Young People Resource Guide contains a collection of articles on different aspects of children’s and young people’s well-being. It does not have a specific section on the impacts of economic reforms; these are included in sections on health, child labor, street children, and others. The resource guide also contains links to manuals on research with children.
• Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities
  • The Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities, carried out in 50 countries and seven regions with UNICEF support, produces comparable analyses on child poverty and disparities in nutrition, health, education and child and social protection through collaboration with national and international partners.
• Monitoring the Situation of Women and Children in CEE/CIS
  • The TransMONEE Database captures a vast range of data relevant to social and economic issues relevant to the situation and wellbeing of children, young people and women in countries of Central Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of independent States (CEECIS). The data represent a particularly useful tool for governments, civil society organizations, funding institutions and academia in considering their decisions, policies, programmes and agendas.
• National MDGs reports
  • In this section you will find country MDG reports which showcase national progress on each of the MDGs by country.
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) - All Documents - Sorted By CountryName
  • A list of updated PRSPs sorted by country on IMF website.
• Statistics - Human Development Reports (HDR) - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• The State of the World’s Children 2011: Adolescence – An Age of Opportunity
  • The State of World's children 2011 focusing on Adolescence.
• The World Bank’s children and youth pages
  • The World Bank’s children and youth pages are a portal to World Bank resources on issues including: early childhood development, school-to-work transitions, citizenship, youth violence, and cross sectoral issues. They also highlight key World Bank publications on children and youth.
• UNHCHR - treaty database
  • The Treaty database of UNHCHR provides Government reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
• UNICEF - Situation Analysis - Examples of Recent Situation Analyses
  • The following are examples of recently published situation analyses and poverty analyses from Bangladesh, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Djibouti, the Eastern Caribbean, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nairobi, Nepal, Oman, the Russian Federation, Senegal, Viet Nam and Zambia.
• unstats - Millennium Indicators
  • This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The data and analyses are the product of the work of the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG Indicators, coordinated by the United Nations Statistics Division. You will also find the official progress reports and documents produced by IAEG. Links to related sites and documents and constantly updated news will keep you up to date with the ongoing activities on MDG monitoring.