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PROPOSAL SIDA CIVSAM 2017-2021 | SAVE THE CHILDREN SWEDEN 2016 1

APPLICATION

to Sida for funding of

the Global Civil Society Organisation Program

2017–2021

SAVE THE CHILDREN SWEDEN | 2016

© Save the Children 2016

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APPLICATION SIDA CSO 2017–2021 | SAVE THE CHILDREN SWEDEN 2016 3

Contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5

Internal change processes ................................................................................... 7 Save the Children and global strategic direction .............................................................. 7 Changes within Save the Children Sweden and strategic direction ............................. 8

Presentation of the Global CSO Program 2017–2021 .............................. 10 Strategic focus and expected results ................................................................................. 11 Thematic focus ........................................................................................................................ 14 Child Rights Governance ...................................................................................................... 15 Child Protection ..................................................................................................................... 21 Summary of country/regional programs ........................................................................... 27

Cross-cutting themes ........................................................................................ 50 Child Participation .................................................................................................................. 51 Gender Equality ...................................................................................................................... 52 Non-discrimination ................................................................................................................ 54 Civil society development and partnership ...................................................................... 55 Conflict Sensitivity .................................................................................................................. 56 Environment and Climate ..................................................................................................... 57

How Save the Children Sweden works with… .......................................... 59 …Program and Operations Quality................................................................................... 59 …Compliance Monitoring .................................................................................................... 61 …Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................................................... 61 …Risk management ............................................................................................................... 66 …Thematic Development and Expertise ......................................................................... 67 …Advocacy .............................................................................................................................. 69 …Stronger members ............................................................................................................. 71

Budget 2017–2021 ............................................................................................. 73 Summary 2017–2021 ............................................................................................................. 73 Detailed Budget 2017–2021 ................................................................................................ 74 Breakdown of Save the Children Sweden’s costs .......................................................... 74

Annexes ............................................................................................................... 76

Global Result Framework .................................................................................... i

Snapshots of country and regional programs in the CSO-program 2017–

2021 .............................................................................................................. iii

Examples Country Program Results Frameworks ...................................... xx Pakistan Country Program ................................................................................................... xx Palestine Country Program ............................................................................................. xxviii Rwanda Country Program ............................................................................................... xxxv


Summarized risk table .................................................................................... xlviii

Compliance Monitoring Plan ............................................................................... l

Budget Sida CSO 2017–2021 ........................................................................... liv Summary 2017–2021 ............................................................................................................. liv Detailed Budget 2017–2021 ................................................................................................. lv Save the Children Sweden Breakdown ........................................................................... lviii


Introduction

Save the Children Sweden (SC Sweden) is a member of the world’s leading

independent organisation for children, Save the Children International (SC

International) that bases its work on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This five years’ application includes SC Sweden’s Global CSO Program focusing

on the thematic priority areas Child Rights Governance and Child Protection. It

covers regional programs in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle

East, and national programs in 15 countries.

The main part of the program will be carried out by SC Sweden’s 200 partner

organisations. SC Sweden strongly believe that civic action is necessary to make

children’s right a reality, hence a strong civil society is crucial in order to promote,

defend and fulfil children’s rights.

Save the Children have very ambitious goals in the new global strategy Ambition

2030 with three global breakthroughs for children on survival, learning and

protection. In order to advance these three breakthroughs it will be imperative for

Save the Children and its partners to work together across thematic sectors and to

learn from each other. In this application SC Sweden put a strong emphasis on

thematic development and ways of working in order to improve children’s rights and

protection against all forms of violence. Evaluations and learnings from direct

interventions by partners will be a pre-condition for identifying and determining best

ways of working.

SC Sweden has developed this application in close collaboration with SC

International’s country and regional offices and civil society partners. When forming

the new direction, have taken into account aspirations set out by Save the Children in

the new global strategy Ambition 2030, the Global Thematic Plans and SC Sweden’s

Operational Focus for 2017–2024.

The application is structured to correspond to the key requirements set out in

Sida’s CSO Appropriation Grant instructions and the programs included in this

application are:

► Focused on strengthening of local civil society and the organisational capacity

development of civil society partner organisations.

► Based on integrated programming, emphasising synergies between thematic

and sub-thematic areas.

► Based on long-term sub-awards with local civil society partners.

► Developed with clear strategies to contribute to change in society, capacity-

building of civil society and empowerment of children.

► Based on and building capacity among local partners around the principles of

child rights programming.

The first part of the application presents the Global CSO Program 2017–2021, its

strategic focus, thematic priorities and expected results. In addition, it gives an


overview of the regional and country programs for the coming five years. The

second part presents how SC Sweden works with cross-cutting issues and program

operations quality, and monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL)

as well as with risk management, compliance monitoring and thematic development

and expertise. The last part covers the program budget with a break down of costs

for SC Sweden’s CSO program.

With the proposed Global CSO Program SC Sweden wants to continue the work

to realise children’s rights by being a global voice on children’s right in collaboration

with a strong civil society where children and their communities hold states and the

international communities to account. SC Sweden hope that the partner

organisations will continue to mobilise many more citizens, including children, and

local civil society organisations in order to achieve the set outcomes for this

application, and by doing so contribute to sustainable changes in the lives of

children.


Internal change processes

Save the Children and global strategic direction

The transition into one global Save the Children organisation is now established and

into its second strategy period. Save the Children Sweden is the third largest member

organisation of Save the Children and has invested a lot in the global organisation.

The journey to becoming ‘one Save the Children’ after the transition has gone faster

than predicted with a strong contribution from a solid and participatory process to

develop the new global strategy Ambition 2030. Despite the positive developments

while becoming a global organisation, there are still internal challenges that needs to

be addressed. Save the Children is built upon a federal model with 29 members (and

boards), 6 regions, 120 Countries and 26,000 staff belonging to the organisation. The

federative model with ‘networked leadership” is an important principle for SC

Sweden who wants to develop the movement as a federation of strong national

members with a high degree of knowledge, capacity and domestic programming. SC

Sweden is also stressing the need to develop strong national member organisations in

the south. However, the federative model also requires that all stakeholders involved

understand how decisions are made, who is accountable to whom and what roles and

responsibilities look like for key decision-making bodies and overall what good

governance looks like.

In the years to come, the global Save the Children has agreed on an ambitious

plan to further strengthen the organisation and its achievements for children. SC

Sweden and its CEO Elisabeth Dahlin has taken responsibility for ‘Governance,

Structure and Culture’, one of the focus areas in the strategy. SC Sweden is also lead

for an initiative focusing on Human Resources and diversity and plays an active role

in other priority areas, such as Knowledge Development where the online resource

centre is a knowledge base that SC Sweden wants to continue to develop. Further

initiatives and projects are on-going to enhance program quality in domestic and

international programs, reduce cost and complexity and increase the unrestricted

funding to become more flexible and able to respond to both unexpected

developments and strategic opportunities when they arise, as well as to further

sharpen global processes and systems.

Many factors will be critical to enabling the Ambition for Children 2030. In

addition to increasing both thematic focus and quality (quality learning, recruitment

and development of staff), Save the Children will focus on people and innovative

technology, as well as structure and governance as the areas where change and

investments are needed. By working as one Save the Children and being focused and

aligned, Save the Children can achieve immediate and lasting change in the lives of

children.

The 2030 Ambition, will be operationalised through 3-year strategic plans, the

first one covering 2016–2018.


Changes within Save the Children Sweden and

strategic direction

Save the Children Sweden’s planning process for the new strategy period 2017–2021

is moving towards finalisation. The main focus is on defining what SC Sweden’s

specific contributions will be towards the joint global Ambition and Strategy and on

the continued development and increased focus on its key competence areas. SC

Sweden will continue to chair Save the Children’s steering group for Child

Protection, and co-chair the one for Child Rights Governance. A new department

has been established at SC Sweden’s Head Office, to focus exclusively on working

with corporate bodies and the Child Rights and Business principles. Non-

discrimination is key to all SC Sweden’s programs, and Education will be especially

characterized by this, resulting in an ‘inclusive education’ focus. SC Sweden will

continue to promote strong and sustainable civil society partnerships and capacity

strengthening within Save the Children globally. For SC Sweden, working together

with partners is crucial to the achievement of the number one priority in Save the

Children’s global strategy: catalysing impact at scale to achieve immediate and lasting

breakthroughs for children. This can never be achieved by one organisation on its

own, but only through partnerships with others.

The sharp increase in the numbers of migrants and refugees in and around

Europe, as well as in all other regions, has posed new challenges to SC Sweden’s

standard ways of working. It has required a response to a humanitarian crisis in

Europe and cooperation with our domestic program responding to elements of the

crisis in Sweden. The migrants and refugees flee conflict, poverty and political

persecution, only to be met with denials of basic rights and inhumane treatment – if

they survive the dangerous journeys. Our child protection expertise has been drawn

upon heavily and our humanitarian operation capability has been focused on a new

and unfamiliar operating environment. As a new Save the Children work stream on

Children on the Move takes shape, SC Sweden must be prepared to bring all its

considerable resources to address one of the most complex international crises in

recent times.

In 2015, SC Sweden’s organisation was reviewed and one conclusion is that the

post transition reality is rather different from what it was expected to be. SC Sweden

has experienced a greater demand for knowledge and evidence-based thematic

development and support, and for operational capacity-building as well as for

strengthened monitoring of progress and compliance in the program than expected.

Our programs and activities are growing and SC Sweden is changing parts of the

work and organisational set up to keep up with developments. SC Sweden is moving

towards a more flexible organisation, with a scalable structure to ensure smooth job

rotation and interchangeable roles. The restructuring of the Head Office has begun

to equip SC Sweden for new challenges. At the same time, SC Sweden is undertaking


targeted and strategic investments in priority areas. The restructuring is intended to

allow us to do even more for children’s rights.


Presentation of the Global CSO Program

2017–2021

Save the Children Sweden’s global CSO-program presented in this application builds

on the strategic results achieved and lessons learnt at country, regional and global

level in 2013-2016, the aspirations set out by Save the Children in its new global

strategy Ambition 2030 and the Global Thematic Plans, as well as SC Sweden’s

Operational Focus 2017-2024.

The main thematic focus of this proposal is Child Right Governance (CRG) and

Child Protection (CP) that have been SC Sweden’s core priorities since 2009 and

remain strategic priorities for the period 2017–2021.

SC Sweden will contribute to the global objectives set out in the global strategy

for Save the Children, but concentrate its efforts to a number of countries selected

after an analysis of:

► Severity of child rights violations among deprived and marginalized children.

► Conflict situation and mobility in the region/country.

► Civil society organisations’ possibility to act and influence Child Rights

agenda.

► Strategic fit between country strategy plans and SC Sweden’s thematic

priorities.

► Overall funding portfolio, opportunities and gaps.

► SC Sweden’s added value in relation to other actors and other Save the

Children members.

► Partner capacity (planning, monitoring, evaluation, and implementation).

► Risks involved, e.g. country offices’ capacity, ownership and experiences,

security and access.

SC Sweden has decided to focus on the following countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia,

Côte d’Ivoire, Kosovo/-a, Myanmar, occupied Palestinian territory, Pakistan, the

Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Vietnam, Yemen and Zambia.

Alongside country focus, SC Sweden will continue to engage in regional

approaches to programming when considered strategic as a means to strengthen

child rights in a specific region. In this coming period SC Sweden will have regional

programs in: East and Southern Africa, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean,

Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, and West and Central Africa.

Regional programs are formed when meeting the criteria below:

► Regional focus on policy reform for children, influencing and fostering

collaboration with regional mechanisms, e.g. the African Union (AU) and

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

► Cross-border focus addressing issues concerning child rights in neighbouring

countries, e.g. children on the move.


► Multi-country focus driven by opportunities for learning and exchange to

enhance civil society mobilisation around a sensitive agenda, e.g. issues on

sexual violence.

Strategic focus and expected results

Ambition 2030

Save the Children Sweden has an advantage as part of a recognised and well

respected international organisation: it gives strength in terms of voice and

operational efficiency. To meet the emerging development and humanitarian

challenges, Save the Children has committed to do whatever it takes to ensure that

by 2030 all children survive, learn and are protected. ‘Ambition for Children 2030’ is

the new global strategy collectively developed across the Save the Children

movement.

Save the Children’s mission is as urgent and relevant as ever: more children are

surviving and thriving than ever before, but millions of children are denied their

most basic rights and are unable to fulfil their potential.

In order to inspire the breakthroughs listed above, Save the Children will focus on

reaching the most deprived and marginalised children in all contexts by combining

direct work on the ground with advocacy and public campaigning together with

partners to achieve sustainable results at scale.1 Save the Children will use all its

resources and innovative leadership skills to ensure that no child is left behind. Save

the Children will also make sure that civil society organisations, including children’s

own, have the knowledge, capacity and financial resources to push the boundaries

for those children who have been left behind due to social and economic concerns.

1 Save the Children defines ‘deprivation’ as a deprivation of rights relating to protection, survival and learning.


During coming years Save the Children globally will need to sharpen its program

focus, find new and better ways of mobilising supporters to bring millions more

people on board the cause and reach a new standard of efficiency and effectiveness

across the organisation. Only by working together, as one Save the Children and in

collaboration with diverse partners, will the organisation be able to deliver on its

promise of immediate and lasting change in children’s lives.

To make progress over the coming five years Save the Children will:

► Better integrate areas of thematic

expertise and ensure that the most

deprived and marginalized children

have the same opportunity to

achieve these breakthroughs as any

other children.

► Identify and replicate program

approaches that Save the Children

and partners have proven to make

the biggest difference for children,

and share guidelines and learn from

each other globally.

► Refresh Signature Programs

through a thorough focus on

thematic development, review of

the approaches used to ensure their

purpose is consistently understood, that they achieve national level impact in

the country where they are situated, and mobilise resources from across Save

the Children to do this.2

► Develop “thought leadership” understood as expertise/thematic excellence,

within a few areas where Save the Children will be recognised for its

competence; nurturing a culture of learning, developing evidence-based

approaches and influencing our standards of working, contributing to our

breakthroughs on survival, learning and protection.3

► Develop and roll out a new global result framework to measure and monitor

progress towards the global breakthroughs.

► Work in partnerships with other actors, organisations and companies at both

national, regional and international level.

2 SC’s signature program are defined as one or more thematic approaches meeting quality standards and using the Theory of Change in a

particular country to achieve breakthrough at national scale with the full support of the organisation. SC Sweden currently have two Signature programs in pipeline: ‘Children Counting First in Public Spending’ in Zambia and ‘Safer homes and communities’ in the

Philippines. 3 SC Sweden will develop Thought Leadership within the sub-thematic areas physical and humiliating punishment for children, civil and

military relations, and partnerships (incl with civil society organisations). Child participation and gender/non-discrimination will be important cross-cutting issues.

Deprived and marginalised

children first

► Children without appropriate care

► Children in urban slums and in

communities affected by criminal

violence

► Children with disabilities

► Children from stigmatized groups

► Children on the move and at the

risk of forced migration and

trafficking

► Girls from the poorest families


Save the Children Sweden’s Global CSO Program 2017–2021

The five year long CSO program is a thematically concentrated and focused effort

made by Save the Children Sweden that is expected to contribute significantly

towards the achievement of the global thematic objectives set out in Save the

Children’s global strategy 2030. With the CSO program, SC Sweden aims to

contribute to a strong and sustainable civil society, demanding and supporting strong

governance systems for children’s rights and for the protection of all children, in

countries and regions where SC Sweden works.

All Save the Children’s work shall promote, defend and fulfil children’s rights.

Results are achieved by collaborating and advocating with everyone who has a stake

in, and responsibility for, a world that ensures the rights of every child and where all

children have a voice in issues concerning them. The commitments from states are

clear, mainly through their ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the

Child. States have the main responsibility, but Save the Children strongly believes

that civic action and an enabling environment for civil society engagement is needed

to make children’s rights a reality. A strong civil society where children and their

communities hold states and the international community to account is crucial.

In the program SC Sweden uses Child Rights Programming as a tool, placing

children in the centre of the work. It recognises children as rights-holders and helps

to engage them in their own development. It recognises governments as the main

duty-bearers to fulfil children’s rights and promotes the governments’ accountability

to their citizens. Adopting a child rights-based approach is the most effective way to

bring about positive and lasting changes for children, their families and their

communities. In a child rights-based program, civil society works with the whole

chain: empowering citizens, mobilizing them, strengthening the whole society,

advocating for rights and for legal and policy changes, as well as enabling the citizens’

participation in public decision-making.

Result Framework

The CSO program is unique in the global movement in its clear focus on the

strengthening and capacity-building of civil society actors and it is built on a results

hierarchy and program structure that clearly will identify and measure progress

towards changed attitudes, and policy and practice at national/society levels within

the thematic focus areas. The global result framework (see Annex 1) has been

developed to guide Save the Children’s thematic analysis at global level and clearly

states how Save the Children Sweden, SC International, and partners will contribute

to the global strategy objectives in the coming five years.

At country and regional program levels all programs have developed their specific

result frameworks and strategies describing the pathway to identified outcomes and

enabling and hindering factors to achieve the desired changes in their respective

contexts. Save the Children is consistently assessing how well the results are achieved


by looking at changes in legislation, policies and practices; capacities of civil society

and the community to support children’s right; and finally for changes in children’s

participation and active citizenship. See illustration below.

Objective How Save the Children Sweden wants the situation for children to

change

Outcome

Changes in legislation, policies, practices

and attitudes

Citizens’ voice & participation in public

decision-making

Government / Society

Intermediary

Outcome

Civil society’s capacity to empower,

mobilize citizens, convey voice,

participate in public decision and

advocate

Civil society

Intermediary

Outcome

Child participation, empowerment/

capacity of individuals and children

SC Sweden’s thematic advisors, award managers and MEAL4 staff have been

instrumental in supporting SC International’s staff in the development of their

respective result frameworks in cooperation with the partners. Planning workshops

have been carried out in all regions. Moreover, previous results have been analysed in

close collaboration with partners to ensure that the country and regional CSO

applications capture all identified learnings and new innovative approaches and fits

well with SC Sweden’s and partner organisations’ coming priorities. Please refer to

Annex 3 for examples of regional and country program result frameworks.

Thematic focus

Save the Children Sweden has identified Child Rights Governance and Child

Protection as areas of thematic excellence within Save the Children’s five globally

thematic priority areas (visible below). Within these areas SC Sweden is aiming at

playing a leading role within the global organisation, but also in the wider child rights

community. These are thematic areas where SC Sweden has been working for a

number of years, gathered knowledge and lessons learnt, but they need to be further

developed, explicitly in terms of measuring impact and results for children and of

validation of methods and approaches used.

In the next chapter we describe each thematic priority, Save the Children’s 2030

objectives and SC Sweden’s 2021 objectives. We further describe a selection of

approaches and interventions that will be applied in countries, regions and at global

level to reach the set results.

4 Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning.


Child Rights Governance

Despite progress over the years in some areas of children’s rights, many children still

do not have an equal chance to fulfil their potential. The new Sustainable

Development Goals, specifically goal 16, clearly recognise that resources and good

governance are needed to ensure progress on all goals and for all children, including

the most deprived and marginalised. Successes in advancing child rights governance

is crucial to the realisation of Save the Children’s breakthroughs on survival, learning

and protection from violence.

Children’s rights to survive, learn and be protected are enshrined in international

law. Insufficient, ineffective and inequitable public spending on children is one of the

major reasons for poor implementation of children’s rights.5 Child rights governance

work identifies and addresses the systematic, underlying and/or structural aspects

that enable or hinder the realisation of these rights. This includes capable and

resilient institutions, supportive laws and policies, contingency plans, monitoring,

oversight and accountability mechanisms, spaces and opportunities for participation,

and the resources required to deliver on children’s rights.

In the coming strategic period SC Sweden aims at strengthening both the supply

and demand side of accountability by supporting citizens, including children, to hold

governments and other providers, such as the business sector, accountable by

5 Human Rights Council (2015) Resolution A/HCR/28/L, Rights of the Child: towards better investment in the rights of the child, Geneva,

Human Rights Council.


directly engaging in government policy and financial planning processes as well as

social accountability processes to improve access and quality of services.

Priorities and ambitions set for 2017–2021

Result Framework

Priority area Save the Children’s Global

Thematic 2030 objectives

SC Sweden’s CSO

Program 2021

outcome

Monitoring and demanding

child rights with children.

Improved accountability for the

rights of the most deprived

children.

Children influence local and

national governance to ensure

their survival, learning and

protection.

Children’s rights are

monitored and

mechanisms for regular

monitoring improved.

The state consults

regularly with civil society

organisations and children

on how children’s rights

are respected and fulfilled.

Good governance delivers

child rights.

Open and resilient institutions

deliver child rights.

Governance of children's

rights are improved

(through legislation, child

rights laws, child rights

divisions, data collection

systems, local and national

structures etc.).

Public investment in children.

Increased and improved quality

of public spending on essential

services for children.

Increased resource

allocation to public

services relevant for

children, such as

education, health, child

protection, social

protection; and improved

quality of public services

provision to children.

Monitoring and demanding child rights with children

SC Sweden will work in almost all of the selected countries to continue our

important work on support to children, child rights organisations and coalitions to

exercise their active citizenship to effect social and political change and collect

evidence on child rights situations, including support to an enabling civil society

operating environment. SC Sweden will further build evidence and experience on

child-centred social accountability6 as an effective approach to improve government

accountability for provision of equal access to quality services for children in line

6 Child-centered social accountability is a set of methods to facilitate dialogue between children and their communities, with local government and local service providers, around quality of, access to and resources for the services they provide.


with the UNCRC. We will strengthen CSOs to advocate for increased private sector

accountability for child rights, with a focus on the UNCRC General comment 16.

Expected outcomes 2021:

1. Children’s rights are monitored and mechanisms for regular monitoring

improved.

2. The state consults regularly with civil society organisations and children on

how children's rights are respected and fulfilled.

In order to reach the outcome set for 2021, SC Sweden will support country and

regional programs to:

► Hold governments accountable to international and human rights monitoring

mechanism and establish and operationalise a regular practice for follow-up

of concluding observations from UN Child Rights Committee and

increasingly implement concluding observations and recommendations from

CSOs and children.

► Ensure governments consult with children’s organisations on child rights

issues and support CSOs to advocate and campaign for children’s

participation in formulation of legislation and policy concerning children and

in policy changes specifically on Child Protection issues. For example, in

Senegal, Kosovo, occupied Palestinian territory and Côte d’Ivoire the

program will ensure that children are consulted in the development of

periodic reports and that child-led groups take part in developing their own

complementary reports. In the Philippines, the program will ensure that the

government has a mechanism in place for consulting with children in the

National Action Plan. In Zambia, the program will ensure the establishment

of platforms where children can participate.

► Support child-led coalitions to enhance child participation and take the lead

on child rights advocacy.

► Ensure CSO’s and children’s participation in child-centred social

accountability to improve quality of services. For example, a child-centred

social accountability mechanism will be established for child survivors of

violence in Côte d’Ivoire.

► Strengthen CSOs to advocate for increased private sector accountability for

child rights, with a focus on the UNCRC General comment 16 and build the

capacity of civil society including children on the Child Rights and Business

Principles (CRBP).


Good governance delivers child rights

Within this priority area, Save the Children Sweden will work in almost all of the

countries and continue to support civil society partners to advocate governments to

put a national child rights architecture in place, based on the General Measures of

Implementation. These GMIs is a set of measures, for example: legislation, child

rights laws, child rights divisions, data collection systems, local and national

structures etc. that need to be in place for a state to effectively implement and realise

children’s rights. SC Sweden will continue to support programs that identify gaps and

weaknesses in the implementation of the measures and also advocate governments to

ensure that infrastructure is in place focusing on the GMIs, such as: review of laws

and policies and in particular addressing discrimination of groups of children and

inequalities between girls and boys, child-centred budgeting to ensure increased and

fair allocation of public funds for e.g. education, health and protection. Further on

training and capacity-building, creation of mechanisms to ensure respect of the

UNCRC, monitoring and collection of data as well as creation of children’s rights

institutions.

Expected outcome 2021:

1. Governance of children's rights is improved.



► Ensure that legislation for child rights is in place, for instance child rights act,

national plans of action for children, and child protection policies.

Monitoring and demanding child rights with children in Senegal

In 2014, in consultation with children, Save the Children’s partner in Senegal,

the National Coalition of Child Rights Associations (CONAFE) focused on

three concluding observations by the UN Committee on the Rights of the

Child – the rights to birth registration, free health care for children under five,

and inclusive education – and monitored the progress made by the

Government towards its implementation. CONAFE mobilized and engaged

village chiefs, parents, women, and children’s groups in monitoring service

delivery to children in relation to these priority areas, and conducted advocacy

targeting relevant local authorities.

This resulted in an enhanced citizens’ participation in monitoring, which led to

an increased registration of birth and an increased number of children

benefiting from the universal free health care in five regions from 2014 to 2016.

During the period 2017–2021, Save the Children and its CSO partners aim at

expanding and scaling up these achievements, in Senegal as well as in Côte

d’Ivoire, and test the child-centred social accountability approach to further

influence public institutions in order to improve the quality and gender

sensitivity of child protection services. This approach is also expected to

promote child participation in decision-making processes, fight corruption, and ensure transparency and accountability.


► Support independent child rights institutions to advocate, defend and

demand child rights. For example, in Ethiopia the program will strengthen

child rights committees for implementation and monitoring of children’s

rights. In Rwanda, child rights institutions will be strengthened to put in place

systems to fulfil children’s rights and advocate the establishment of a

National Commission for Children (NCC) and a Child Rights Observatory to

fulfil their mandate with support and collaboration from civil society actors.

► Advocate for the establishment of national data collection system to ensure

child rights. For example in Myanmar, the program will support the National

Child Rights Working Group (NCRWG), other partners and broad-based

alliances to generate and analyse data from a child rights monitoring system

and jointly pursue evidence-based advocacy to the government on emerging

issues related to children.

► Influence governments at national and local levels to put in place quality

structures and systems to fulfil children’s rights. For example in Kosovo, the

program will promote social accountability tools to enable the creation of

responsive systems with children’s priorities taken into account.

► Strengthen CSOs to advocate for legislations, local and national structures,

child rights commissions, creation of responsive systems for child rights and

interest for and ratification of protocols.

► Support involvement of child-led groups in advocacy, social accountability,

research and decision making processes for good governance.

Good governance delivers child rights in Pakistan

With the Child Rights Movement - a national CSO network with regional

members and reach - as the principal partner, the program in Pakistan

engages in activities to both monitor and support the government in the

enactment of legal reforms for children’s rights. The work capitalizes and

builds on the structure developed during previous programming period

with its clear multi-level approach; targeting national and decentralized

levels of government as well as various levels within key line ministries.

The program strategies includes review of existing and pending policies

to identify gaps in legislation, consultation with multi-stakeholders for

drafting improvements and advocacy toward parliamentarians (national

and regional parliaments) and other state and non-state stakeholders. It

also includes support by partners to government in establishing and

developing its mechanisms to ensure that international and national

commitment to children’s rights are translated into measurable actions;

and support to ensure that existing formal national institutions and

functions (more effectively can engage with relevant federal ministries

and provincial governments.


Public investment in children

Save the Children Sweden will work in two thirds of our prioritised countries with

this priority area. In the coming strategic period, the work to improve the way money

is spent and on whom will be further strengthened. SC Sweden will increase budget-

tracking activities and support children and their communities in using a child-

centred social accountability approach to improve access to, and the quality of,

services for the most deprived children.


1. Increased resource allocation to public services relevant for children, such as

education, health, child protection, social protection; and improved quality of

public services’ provision to children



► Advocate governments to engage with civil society and children in budgeting

processes. For example in Zambia, the program will promote legal

framework to allow public access to budget and mechanism for CSOs and

children to give feedback. In Kosovo, the program will ensure that actions

are taken by the state to improve its accountability to children and improve

services delivered to children.

► Increase national and district level budget allocations and spending towards

education, health, child protection, and social protection programs; and

ensure public budgets become more sensitive to child rights.

► Support CSO’s reports on budget analysis, budget tracking, research on

budget proposals, child-friendly materials on budgets, as well as strengthen

their capacity to advocate government demanding increased and more

effective public spending. For example the Pakistan and Côte d’Ivoire

programs will ensure that CSOs analyse resource allocation and spending on

child focused sectors. In Zambia, the program will ensure that CSOs and

children engage with community in social accountability practices and child

responsive planning and budgeting.

► Support children to participate in planning and budget processes in the

community and with authorities. For example, in Lebanon, children will

engage in producing advocacy materials and studies on budget analysis and in

Ethiopia, children will be supported to conduct budgetary seminars.


Child Protection

The work on child protection requires strong focus on changing social norms

through awareness raising, campaigning and community mobilisations, and include

work with governments and other partners to develop robust child protection

systems. Violence against children is a multi-faceted problem with causes at the

individual, family, community and societal levels. The new comprehensive 2030

development agenda – ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable

development’ – includes goals and targets to end violence against children. Over the

course of the next five years, Save the Children Sweden will be strengthening

partnerships, scaling up advocacy and increasing integrated programming in order to

achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly goal 16.2, 5.2 and

5.3, and contribute to Save the Children’s breakthroughs on survival, learning and

protection from violence. Violence is now at the heart of the SDGs unlike the

Public investment in children in Zambia

Improvement of public services to early and primary education, child

health and child protection is a strong focus for the Zambia program.

With its main partners - Copperbelt Health Education Project (CHEP),

Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD), and Civil Society for

Poverty Reduction (CSPR) – the program aims to increase public

investment in children and to improve the use of these resources to

realize children’s rights. The program adapts a child-centred social

accountability approach to strengthen both the demand side and supply

side of governance. The program strategy includes:

1. enhancing children’s agency to effectively participate in local

governance and budgeting processes and to hold public officials and

service providers to account;

2. creating and expanding opportunities for child-centred multi-

stakeholder dialogues and engagements on child rights issues

throughout planning and budgeting cycles;

3. research, policy analysis and budget advocacy at national level and in

selected districts to ensure improved public spending in order to

implement children’s rights;

4. supporting civic engagements/actions by children and communities

aimed at monitoring public spending and service delivery to children;

and lastly:

5. supporting actions by public officials in selected districts to

institutionalize public participation, accountability and transparency in

planning.


Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which failed to address children’s

protection rights.

During this strategic period SC Sweden will seek to answer key learning questions

and strengthen the evidence-based approach, in order to respond with quality to

more children. Promoting gender equality is central to ensuring that children are

protected. For girls and boys to have an equal opportunity to survive, learn,

participate, play and develop, child protection programming must be informed by,

and challenge, restrictive gender norms and discrimination that result in gender

inequality in all contexts.

Priorities and ambitions set for 2017–2021

Global Result Framework

Priority area SC Global Thematic

2030 objectives

SC Sweden’s CSO Program’s

2021 outcome

Protection of children

from violence.

Children are protected from

physical and humiliating

punishment in the home and

in school.

Changed attitudes and increased

knowledge on the negative effects

of PHP.

Countries have legal framework in

place to eliminate PHP.


sexual violence.

Changed attitudes and increased

knowledge on how to prevent and

respond to sexual violence.

Countries have legal framework in

place to eliminate sexual violence.


violence in conflict situations.

Children at risk of being associated

with harmful gangs and armed

forces or groups can access

prevention and response programs.

Child protection

systems.

All children are protected

through a strong child

protection system, integrating

both formal and informal

components.

Improved community and national

child protection systems, in

particular to meet the needs of the

most deprived children including

children on the move.

Protection of children from violence

Save the Children Sweden will work in almost all (90 percent) of our prioritised

countries with this area. In the coming strategic period, SC Sweden will build the

capacity of civil society actors to raise awareness about physical and humiliating

punishment (PHP), and to advocate for a legal ban on PHP in both homes and

schools along with the development of appropriate policies, and in so doing, build

on the priorities and participation of children. We will strengthen national advocacy

platforms for CSO’s use in advocacy together with others for national laws and


policies to end sexual violence against girls and boys, which include raising the age of

marriage to 18 and outlawing female genital mutilation (FGM). Advocacy for

adequate financial resources for high-quality and sustainable support programs for

children directly or indirectly affected by violence will also be included. Partner CSOs

will challenge existing social norms around PHP through awareness-raising

campaigns and by continuing to support children, community members, men and

boys as ‘change agents’ in preventing family violence. They will work for wide-spread

practice of the innovative violence prevention approach Positive Discipline7 (in

Everyday Parenting and in Everyday Teaching), and an effective behaviour change

program, and support partners in advocacy to integrate it into national positive

parenting programs and other government programs such as cash transfers, family

planning and teacher training, and increasingly target fathers and male caregivers. SC

Sweden will put an extra emphasis on strengthening CSO’s efforts to prevent and

respond to sexual violence and to challenge gender discrimination and norms

perpetuating sexual and gender-based violence against children, including child

marriage and FGM by working with boys, men and communities. Lastly, high-quality

prevention and response services will be provided to children at risk of recruitment

into harmful gangs, and their reintegration into their families and communities will

be supported.

Expected outcome 2021

1. Changed attitudes and increased knowledge of the negative effects of

physical and humiliating punishment.

2. Countries have legal framework in place to eliminate PHP.

3. Changed attitudes and increased knowledge of how to prevent and respond

to sexual violence.

4. Countries have legal framework in place to eliminate sexual violence.

5. Children at risk of being associated with harmful gangs and armed forces or

groups can access prevention and response programs



► Support parents, teachers and caregivers to practice positive discipline8

instead of PHP in schools and communities by strengthening CSOs to carry

out awareness-raising campaigns and continue to support children,

community members, men, and boys as ‘change agents’ to decrease the

practice of PHP.

► Ensure education institutes promote inclusion of positive discipline in their

curriculum and support CSOs to advocate and influence the government and

education authorities. For example, the Kosovo program will work to ensure

7 Positive Discipline is a method with which parents and teachers (and other professionals who meet children) can learn more about how

children develop and how they themselves can develop their relationship with the children accordingly. 8 Based on SC Sweden’s training package on Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) and Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching

(PDET).


positive discipline is accredited and affiliated by the University of Prishtina.

The Pakistan program will make sure that positive discipline becomes a part

of teachers’ training curriculum and that safe school policies are in place in

the schools.

► Advocate for the legislation banning corporal punishment, sexual violence,

FGM and early marriage; improve the capacity of CSOs to advocate and

engage with government on policy reforms, strengthen networks of CSOs to

eliminate PHP and involve children in the advocacy for the legal prohibition

of PHP of children in all settings. For example, the Rwanda program will

work to ensure positive discipline is endorsed by the government as an

approach to prevent violence against children. The Sudan program will

strengthen legal frameworks to ban PHP, the Vietnam program will advocate

for state champions to be committed to eliminate PHP and the Senegal

program will ensure that the revised child act includes provision against

sexual violence9, FGM and child marriage.

► Strengthen the capacity of CSOs to support children, community members,

men and boys as ‘change agents’ in preventing and responding to sexual

violence. In Bangladesh, the program will promote positive fatherhood to

address sexual and gender-based violence and in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire,

the program will ensure that cases of sexual violence against children are

identified, reported and referred through appropriate channels by using

ICT4D10 services.

► Increased capacity of CSOs to advocate against all forms of violence against

children in conflict situations. For example, the Côte d’Ivoire program will

ensure that government actors, local authorities and communities are taking

initiatives to reduce the number of children at risk of recruitment by or

associated with harmful gangs, and to provide affected children with

appropriate support. The Sudan program will ensure increased access of

children at risk of violence and effected by violence (including those with

harmful gangs, armed forces/groups) to prevention and response services

through direct support and referrals by CSO partners.

9 Sexual violence and abuse includes sexual harassment, rape, sexual exploitation, child abuse, and all forms of intrafamilial sexual abuse of

children including incest, images, grooming for sexual purposes, trafficking for sexual exploitation, child marriage and FGM. 10 Information, communication and technology for development


Child Protection Systems

Save the Children Sweden will work in two thirds of our prioritised countries with

this priority area. It is a well-established knowledge that building and strengthening

of community-based mechanisms and national child protections systems represents

an inclusive and sustainable and well-coordinated way to protect all children, while at

the same time addressing more specific needs of particular groups. SC Sweden will

continue to build on its experience to improve community and national child

protection systems by integrating both formal and informal components. A child

protection system provides a basic ‘infrastructure’ that delivers a range of protection

outcomes for children. This infrastructure includes the people, laws, money and data

that need to be in place to make the protection real. It includes key approaches such

as case management to the work with the most deprived and marginalised children,

including children on the move. Coordination between different actors is a critical

part of building an effective system. During this strategic period SC Sweden will

support CSO partners’ advocacy with governments and the international community

for legislative, policy and budgetary reform, support CSO engagement with

governments to provide: good-quality, accessible, and child- and gender-sensitive

preventive and responsive services. SC Sweden will strengthen the CSO’s capacity to

use Information Communication and Technology (ICT) to support improved data

collection, accountability and programming in national child protection systems.

Protection of children from violence in the Philippines

Save the Children in the Philippines implements the Signature program

“Safer Homes and Communities” with the aim of reducing physical and

humiliating punishment (PHP). This violence prevention program consists

of different components that are implemented in parallel, including the

promotion of legal and policy change (prohibition of PHP by law),

changing attitudes (the public no longer accepts PHP) and behaviour

change (parent, caregivers and teachers practice of Positive Discipline).

Child participation is a cross-cutting component in this program. The

local CSO partners have a long experience in working on attitude and

behaviour change and conduct trainings in Positive Discipline in Everyday

Parenting/Teaching reaching out to target parents, teachers and service

providers in the respective communities across the country.

Among other things there are anecdotal reports gathered from focus

group discussions with public school teachers who have undergone

Positive Discipline Training and Orientation have indicated that they no

longer practice PHP in their schools in compliance with the regulation at

Department of Education from 2012. The knowledge on the issue and

capacity of the partners is strong and the work will continue in the

coming period.



1. Improved community and national child protection systems, in particular to

meet the needs of the most deprived children, including children on the

move.



► Strengthen formal and informal child protection systems to provide good

quality, accessible, flexible and gender-sensitive preventive and responsive

services. For example in Pakistan, the program will support the

establishment of child-sensitive social protection, mobile child protection

units, and will ensure formal child protection units are strengthened. In the

Philippines, the program will ensure that school-based child protection

committees are established by local government units and by schools. In

Yemen, the program will advocate the Ministry to establish Child Protection

Systems based on international guidelines and standards.

► Support CSO partners to advocate governments and the international

community for legislative, policy and budgetary reforms in child protection,

compliant with children’s rights, international standards and best practice.

For example, the Pakistan program will advocate for allocation of resources

for formal child protection units and in the Philippines, the program will

ensure that child protection programs, projects and activities with

corresponding budget allocation based on costing estimates are included in

the strategic and annual plans of target cities and municipalities. In occupied

Palestinian territory, the program will ensure the application of endorsed

protocols, guidelines and procedures for working with marginalised children.

► Support CSOs and children’s engagement in child-centred social

accountability mechanisms to improve child protection services.

► Ensure policies and practices addresses the needs of children on the move.

For example in Kosovo, the program will promote family- and community-

based alternative care models and strategies that tackle the risks associated

with unsafe migration. The Sudan program will advocate that the

implementation of legal frameworks for protection of children includes

children on the move. In Latin America, the regional program will ensure

child-friendly and child-sensitive asylum and migration services that

adequately respond to migrants, refugees and displaced children, and in

Senegal, the program will ensure implementation of a common strategy for



Summary of country/regional programs

Below, SC Sweden’s global CSO program is described from a regional perspective,

highlighting the region and country specific conditions and contextual factors,

including the child rights situation, which have informed program outline and

strategies in the country and regional programs included in the global CSO program.

This section also summarize the strategic focus in each region and highlight some of

the expected results. More country specific information can be found in Annex 2,

with snapshots of the main thematic focus, objectives, local and regional partners as

well as the budget per partner and country.

West and Central Africa

In West and Central Africa (WCA), Save the Children

Sweden will continue to support the ongoing work in

Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal with a strong focus on

building the capacity of CSOs and children and their

own organisations to monitor and demand the rights

of every child.

SC Sweden will further concentrate on a regional

program, based in Senegal, in cooperation with

partner organisations and ECOWAS in countries

such as; Guinea, the Gambia, Togo, Mali, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, with the

purpose of improving accountability for the rights of the most deprived children.11

Regional context

The West and Central Africa region has a diverse economic, social and political

environment with 51 percent of the population under the age of 18 years. Several

countries in the region have suffered serious political instability or violent conflicts in

the past 20 years, and some have also been highly affected by the Ebola crisis. Since

last year, some of West African countries face attacks from Islamism groups posing

great risks to the population.

The situation for children in the region is harsh. It is the worst region to be a

child or a mother in, and the one with the highest child mortality rate in the world.

One in every eight children do not make it to its 5th birthday. Children in West and

Central Africa are facing an unacceptable range of protection risks, including,

domestic violence, child labour, sexual exploitation and abuse, child trafficking,

female genital mutilation (FGM), and child marriage. Without progress by 2050,

almost half of the world’s child brides will be African.12 Widespread poverty, chronic

11 All 15 West African States are part of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). 12 http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/UNICEF_SOWC_2016.pdf, p. 38.

http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/UNICEF_SOWC_2016.pdf


conflict, and gender and generation relations, as well as certain cultural beliefs are

major root causes of violence, exploitation and abuse of children.

Poverty and traditional beliefs keep 40 percent of children out of school,

especially the girls.13 Systems for the social and legal protection of children are

generally weak, under-resourced and poorly coordinated. Migration and the fast

growing urbanization put a strain on the traditional safety nets and family networks.

Half of the region’s population is living in towns and cities, and that leads to an

expansion of slums and breakdown of families leaving many children in extremely

vulnerable situations. Traditionally, in West and Central Africa, the family and the

community have been the most important sources of support and protection for

vulnerable children. This is now changing rapidly due to the fast growing

urbanisation and migration where many children leave their home of origin on their

own.

Even if all countries in West and Central Africa have ratified the UNCRC, and all

but the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo have

ratified the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), these

instruments are not widely known among elected officials, in the private sector and

in the communities. Reporting on the ACRWC is still not considered as a priority.

Many of the countries in the region do not respect their own obligations to report on

time.

In West and Central Africa, legislation and policy frameworks have often been

copied from other countries and do not reflect the culture and aspirations of the

children, families and communities they are supposed to serve. Further, the lack of

political will, leadership and a coordinated approach from the government to child

rights implementation is a weakness throughout the region. But governments are

even so increasingly enacting laws to prohibit physical and humiliating punishment

of children. Four states in West and Central Africa have achieved prohibition in all

settings, including the home: Benin, Cape Verde, the Republic of Congo, and Togo.

Five others have expressed a commitment to enact full prohibition.14 Both Guinea,

Senegal and the Gambia have prohibited female genital mutilation, even though

communities still continue to practice these girls’ rights violations.

Across the region, allocated resources for child rights are often inadequate or not

efficiently used, and high expectations are therefore placed on civil society

organisations in West Africa. Child rights coalitions in West Africa have played an

important role in the monitoring of child rights, pushing states to fulfil their

engagements in relation to the CRC and the ACRWC. Central African countries

don’t have functional national networks in the same way. CSOs know they need to

strengthen their capacities for critical but constructive engagement with

governments, but governments need to meet them part way to build healthier

relationships. Governments in most contexts need to improve the legal and

13 UNICEF: The State of the World’s Children 2016. 14 http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/legality-

tables/West%20and%20Central%20Africa%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf

http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/legality-tables/West%20and%20Central%20Africa%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf

http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/legality-tables/West%20and%20Central%20Africa%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf


regulatory environment for CSOs to make it more enabling for all the CSO roles,

and they may need to be supported by donors to do so. Spaces need to be preserved

where governments and CSOs can work together and build up collaborator

routines.15

Strategic Focus

For the coming five years, Save the Children, in partnership with CSO organisations,

will be engaged in influencing and advocating for governments to be accountable to

human/child rights monitoring mechanisms; and in holding governments

accountable for the allocation and utilization of adequate resources for the realization

of children’s rights. Together with partners, Save the Children will also focus on the

harmonization, revision and implementation

of existing laws on child protection, and

particularly on female genital mutilation,

prohibition of corporal punishment in all

settings and of child marriages, and approval

and roll-out of the Minimum Care Standards

for Care Institutions. Social mobilisation will

be organized along with a series of

consultative workshops and dialogues at

various levels to make sure that policy makers,

community leaders, teachers and parents have

equal understanding and ownership and will

ensure that agreed changes will be implemented at community level.

SC Sweden will use previous experiences and best practices to develop

programming on prevention and responses to violence against children. The

program will strengthen the integration of Child Protection and Child Rights

Governance into programs, especially in communities where children are affected the

most by child poverty and child rights deprivation. Through advocacy for policy and

behavioural change and a strengthened civil society, including children’s

organisations, the regional program aims to promote states’ capacities to respect and

fulfil the rights of the most deprived children to survival, learning and protection,

and advocate for open and resilient institutions to deliver children’s rights through

national coordination mechanisms.

Capacity strengthening of core local and sub-regional partners will be of further

importance to effectively lead and manage strong organisations both at the national

and regional level. SC Sweden will build on and develop the long-term collaboration

with child rights coalitions in West Africa and explore possibilities for support and

emergence of similar networks in Central Africa. Save the Children, in partnership

with regional organisations/networks will lobby ECOWAS and ACERWC to hold

15 http://www.civicus.org/images/stories/CSI_RA_West%20AFrica%20Regional%20report_Final.pdf

http://www.civicus.org/images/stories/CSI_RA_West%20AFrica%20Regional%20report_Final.pdf


West African countries accountable for adequate and gender-sensitive policies and

budget allocation and utilization for child rights in line with their commitment to

accelerate progress towards children’s rights.

In addition the program will build strong alliances with the UN Office for High

Commissioner for Human Rights, the Council for the Development of Social

Science Research in Africa, the Global Initiative to end all forms of corporal

punishment, the Panos Institute, the Tax Justice Network, and the Open Society, to

amplify our regional advocacy and conduct suitable research enabling partners to

work on an informed basis.

More program highlights:

► The program will provide technical support to its partners MAEJT,16 Sabou-

Guinea and WAO-Afrique to hold local authorities accountable for effective

and adapted reintegration services for children exposed to abuse and

exploitation, with emphasis on children on the move. MAEJT will be using a

child-centred social accountability approach to hold service providers

accountable for quality standards and advocate municipalities to increase

resource allocation for the improvement of the quality of services.

► In Senegal, children that have survived violence, including children on the

move and talibé children, will have access to multi-sectorial and high-quality

child protection services.

► In Côte d’Ivoire, CSOs, including child-led groups, will advocate the

government to hold the private sector accountable to child rights (general

comment 16 implementation) to ensure that the private sector increasingly

take concrete measures to respect children’s right.

East and Southern Africa

In East and Southern Africa (ESA), Save the Children

Sweden will continue to work in Ethiopia, Rwanda,

Sudan, South Africa and Zambia. SC Sweden

supports governments and partners to put measures

and structures in place to respond to abuse, neglect,

exploitation and violence affecting children, and

improve access to good quality services.

Save the Children’s regional program in East and

Southern Africa is based in Nairobi in Kenya, and

primarily targets regional processes and mechanisms to generate regional learning

and analyses to influence policy and catalyse transformative change for the most

vulnerable children, including children on the move. The regional program was

established as a separate program unit in 2014 called the Regional and Multi Country

16 MAEJT stands for le Mouvement Africain des enfants et jeunes travailleurs (the African Movement of Working Children and Youth

(AMWCY)), a child- and youth-led regional network that has a national chapter in most countries of West Africa.


Program Unit (RMCPU), to better reflect both the regional dimension and the need

to work with the country offices building on their evidence. In January 2016, Save

the Children’s Southern Africa regional office merged with the Eastern Africa

regional office and established the main office in Nairobi.

Regional context

East and Southern Africa is a vast, geographically diverse region with a population of

more than 470 million people, of which more than 50 percent are children.17 Most

countries in the region belong to the low or lower middle income countries, e.g.

Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan and Zambia. South Africa belongs to the upper middle

income countries, however it is also characterized by the most severe income

inequalities in the world.18 Even though progress is made in more and more countries

in the region that indicate that child protection policies are in place, and that

spending on child protection services has increased, many children suffer from

multiple violations. Deeply rooted cultural beliefs and practices, such as corporal

punishment, child marriage, and female genital mutilation, continue to be prevalent

in many places, putting children, especially those from the most marginalized

communities, at harm. Among them, child marriages remain extremely common.

About one third of the region’s women aged 20–24 were married before their 18th

birthday. Female genital mutilation is particularly prevalent in Eritrea, Ethiopia,

Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania.19

As a region, East and Southern Africa has the highest rate of child labour in the

world, together with West and Central Africa. Nearly a third of the children aged 5–

14 in Sub-Saharan Africa are engaged in work. Furthermore, huge numbers of

children especially in Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa are also engaged in

unsafe, unaccompanied migration in search of better socio-economic opportunities.

Children and youth engaged in irregular migration or affected by large-scale

involuntary migration and trafficking constitute some of the most marginalized,

hidden citizens on the African continent. Lack of legal status and a foreign identity

lead to further stigmatisation in transit countries. Migrant children form very seldom

a part of the voice of civil society. It is crucial for duty-bearers and civil society to

have a deep understanding of the potentially devastating risks for children and the

driving factors behind migration, and further, how to proactively safeguard children

during all stages of their journey.

In the region, progress has been made and priority has been placed on policy and

legal reform. However, the countries are at different stages of law and policy

development. Necessary laws, legal systems and enforcement mechanisms are still

lacking. The practice of physical and humiliating punishment (PHP) is a significant

threat to the protection of children across the region. Kenya and South Sudan are the

17 http://www.worldometers.info/population/africa/ 18 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2172rank.html 19 http://www.unicef.org/esaro/5480_child_protection.html

http://www.worldometers.info/population/africa/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2172rank.html

http://www.unicef.org/esaro/5480_child_protection.html


only states that have achieved prohibition in all settings, also at home. Governments

of at least 11 others states in the region have expressed a commitment to enact full

prohibition, among them, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia. Ethiopia, on the other

hand, has yet to enact the law. Progress towards prohibition of PHP outside the

home is also gaining pace in East and Southern Africa: corporal punishment is now

prohibited in schools in 14 states, and in penal institutions in 11 states.

National funding continue to be a persistent problem for the countries in the

region, with clear effects on the capacities to plan, implement and coordinate

institutional arrangements, human resource development, legislation, financing and

budget for an effective child protection system.

Civil society remains threatened by shrinking national space for engagement and

decreasing resources. The restrictions have emerged for a variety of reasons and have

become a reality for civil society in countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan,

Angola, Botswana and Zimbabwe. The national laws have either threatened the full

functionality of civil society or restricted their opportunities for engagement at

national levels to hold governments accountable on child rights, clearly affecting the

level of engagement in child rights monitoring with the African Committee of

Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) and the UN Child

Rights Committee.

Strategic Focus

The East African Community (EAC) adopted its Child Policy on 26th April, 2016

through direct support from Save the Children. Save the Children engaged with the

EAC to ensure that children’s issues featured prominently in the regional integration

and development agenda over the past three years. The East African Community

stands to benefit from this coherent Child Policy that will be responsive to all

emerging trans-national child related issues.

Save the Children works on projects with a broad objective of integrating child

rights within other regional mechanisms including the African Union (AU) and its

institutions, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the

Child (ACERWC), the East African Community (EAC), the East African Standby

Force (EASF), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Save the Children implements programs in all settings by being responsive to

programming in both development and humanitarian contexts. Another important

part of a regional program is regional advocacy that can provide a platform for

discussing sensitive thematic issues, and a safer platform for civil society

organisations in countries where civil society space is highly regulated or restricted.

For the coming period the regional program seeks to improve the capacity of

regional bodies in Africa to hold governments accountable to commitments made

for children including budgetary allocations and equitable resource distribution to all

children; increase civil society space and capacity to monitor child rights; increase

opportunities for child participation in local, national and regional decision making


and policy processes; and improve the capacity of community-based, national and

trans-national child protection systems to serve the most vulnerable child

populations, with a specific focus on children on the move.

In addition to the long-term support to a strengthened civil society (both in WCA

and ESA) promoting and monitoring the fulfilment of children’s rights in Sub-

Saharan Africa through the global CSO

program, Save the Children also has

other projects where the inclusion of

children’s rights on the agenda of

regional mechanisms is the focus.

Currently three pan-African projects

are being implemented, supported by

the Swedish Pan-African result

strategies through the Embassy of

Sweden in Addis Abeba and Lusaka.

The first of these projects is led by

Plan Sweden and Save the Children

Sweden through a consortium with

other child rights organisations, such as

the Africa Child Policy Forum, the

Institute for Human Rights and

Development in Africa and the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law,

Governance and Human Rights. This project promotes the African Charter on the

Rights and Welfare of the Child and has a very close collaboration with its expert

committee.

The second project aims at integrating child protection within the African Peace

and Security Architecture both focusing on the regional mechanisms (such as the

African Union Peace & Support Operations Division, ECOWAS, EAC and the

peace keeping training institutes) and a number of troop contributing countries in

Africa. Finally, a third project promotes children’s rights to a comprehensive

sexuality education preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted

diseases.


► Save the Children will through improved CSO capacity ensure that

particularly vulnerable groups of children, including cross-border and in-

country unaccompanied migrant children access their rights. This will be

done by piloting two projects providing services to unaccompanied children

at drop-in centres and providing access to quality care and protection for

children on the move living in informal board and lodge establishments.

► In Rwanda, child protection systems are strengthened and positive discipline

is endorsed by the government as an approach to prevent violence against

children.


► In Zambia, the program will support coalition of local NGOs to engage and

pursue advocacy strategies that maximize investment in children across Save

the Children’s three breakthroughs: Education, Health and Protection.

► In Ethiopia, the program will establish and strengthen child parliaments and

child-led coalitions, child-centred social accountability groups, and other

community-based governance structures to engage them in monitoring the

provision of essential services for children. To ensure mobilisation of

necessary resources SC Sweden, Norway, Denmark and UK have started a

joint pilot project to enhance child rights governance in Ethiopia.

South Asia

In South Asia (SA), Save the Children Sweden’s long-

standing support to the programs in Bangladesh and

Pakistan will remain. They will both focus on having

protection mechanisms in place to prevent and

respond to violence in all settings, and to strengthen

civil society and the political and civic space for

children.

The regional program, based in Thailand, is a

smaller child protection program entirely focusing on

reducing the prevalence of physical and humiliating punishment in targeted countries

in both the South Asia and the South East Asia regions. This program will

strengthen and support country activities in Asia.

Regional context

The population of South Asia is over 1.8 billion or about one fourth of the world’s

population, making it the most populous region in the world, and its southern part

the most densely populated.20 Children in South Asia are faced with a number of

challenges, such as not surviving their first birthday, malnutrition, stunting, child

marriages, trafficking, corporal punishment, sexual violence, and exploitation.21 Other

issues are lack of access to education and health facilities, child labour, recurring

natural disasters, and conflict. With a long period of robust economic growth,

progress has been made in improving the lives of people in the region. Despite that,

poverty still remains high and unevenly distributed financial resources and gender

inequality continues to create barriers to development. More than 40 percent of the

world’s poor that survive on less than 1.25 USD a day live in the region.22

The countries in South Asia have been working hard towards achieving the

Millennium Development Goals, particularly in reducing levels of poverty and

20 http://www.worldometers.info/population/asia/ 21 http://www.saievac.org/ 22 http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/sar/overview#1

http://www.worldometers.info/population/asia/

http://www.saievac.org/

http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/sar/overview#1


gender disparities. However, maintaining a good balance between economic, social

and environmental sustainability remains a challenge in the new Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs). Progress has been uneven, and the region is still

fighting hard to reduce hunger, improve the children’s nutrition status, and to

eliminate violence against children.

Collectively, countries in South Asia have a commitment to implementing the

recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children, including the

prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment in all settings. In South Asia

there is a strong regionally coordinated action to promote law reform. Up till now

(April, 2016) no state in South Asia has achieved prohibition in all settings. The

governments in Bangladesh and Pakistan have formally accepted the Universal

Periodic Review recommendation for prohibition in all settings, but this has not yet

led to enactment.23 Achieving law reform to prohibit corporal punishment in South

Asian countries will have a significant impact not only on the children in the region,

but also across the world, since over a quarter of the world’s children live in South

Asia.

CSOs play a critical role in their countries and communities but have to fight

against both corruption and a shrinking space. During previous planning period SC

Sweden could see an increased surveillance from governments of the civil society

actors in several South Asian countries, not least in their advocacy work. According

to the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index24 the government in

Bangladesh is exacerbating corruption by clamping down on civil society and in

Pakistan, the government’s failure to tackle corruption is feeding ongoing vicious

conflicts. Save the Children partners with many organisations that have great

experience on how to balance the increased restrictions from governments with their

continued articulation of children’s rights and their support and protect of children

exercising them.

Strategic Focus

In this coming planning period the regional program, operating from Bangkok but

covering both South East and South Asia, will be instrumental to mobilise civil

society actors to raise awareness of the issue and pressure governments to prohibit

physical and humiliating punishment (PHP) in their fulfilment of their international

obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Two partners,

Child Line, and the Life Skill Development Foundation, will proactively work for the

elimination of the PHP in the region, and also form a new network with CSOs in

South Asia (in Bangladesh and Pakistan to begin with) and South East Asia (in the

Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam).

23 http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/legality-tables/South%20Asia%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf 24 https://issuu.com/transparencyinternational/docs/2015_corruptionperceptionsindex_rep?e=2496456/33011041

http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/legality-tables/South%20Asia%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf

https://issuu.com/transparencyinternational/docs/2015_corruptionperceptionsindex_rep?e=2496456/33011041


Partners in the Philippines and Bangladesh will be instrumental in supporting

capacity-building for the CSO partners in

the other selected countries that will play

a critical role in involving children and

young people, especially in national and

regional advocacy, through child and

youth forums. A special focus will be put

on engaging boys and men, alongside

girls and women in fostering gender

equality and in promoting fathers’

involvement in positive discipline and

parenting. This orchestrated effort to

eliminate PHP in the targeted countries

will secure greater commitment for

change among the government

representatives and bring about sustainable results for children.25

Several recent achievements present strategic opportunities. For example, the

Save the Children’s Asia region endorsed a regional plan of action in 2015 to

eliminate violence against children, emphasizing a need to eliminate particularly PHP.

In addition the Asia region is preparing to implement the sustainable development

goals (SDGs), especially goal 16.2 on the elimination of violence against children and

women. As the Philippines and Indonesia act as ‘pathfinder’ countries, they will offer

an intervention model that will inspire and guide other countries across the region in

banning PHP.


► The program will improve protection and care for children on the move in

three urban centres in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan

respectively. This project will be connected to the IKEA-funded CHAON

program in order to develop a holistic program for children on the move that

embraces all the settings that send, transit and receive the children.

► CSOs in Pakistan will strengthen their advocacy capacities, build evidence

around the dynamics of children on the move, identify and advocate for

policies and practices that address the need those children and improve their

access to quality services.

► Sexual and gender-based violence will be reduced in Bangladesh through

Save the Children’s continued engagement of men and boys as active agents

of change.

25 Among e.g. the following government representatives: South Asia Initiative to End Violence Against Children (SAIEVAC); South Asia

Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to secure greater commitment for change; Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).


► The government of Bangladesh, as a matter of practice, consult with

children’s organisations, in the formulation of legislation and policies that

concern children.

► In Pakistan, the program will work with partner CSOs and engage them to

further strengthen their gender-based work at both national and provincial

levels, with a strong focus on engaging boys and men in existing good

governance networks.

South East Asia

In South East Asia (SEA), Save the Children Sweden

will continue to support the Philippines, a country with

a long-standing relation to SC Sweden, and continue to

support Myanmar and Vietnam that were added to the

Sida CSO portfolio in 2016. All three countries will

carry on their work towards robust legal frameworks to

protect children against violence and towards strong

and vivid civil societies working to ensure that the state

meets its obligations to monitor and implement

children’s rights. SC Sweden’s support to the Philippines will have a specific feature

as Save the Children in the Philippines is foreseen to become a national Save the

Children member during the planning period.

The regional program, based in the Philippines, will for the coming five years

focus on strengthening coordination between civil society and government in

monitoring children’s rights and in supporting the ASEAN and its member states in

implementing policy reforms to address gaps in, and violations of, children’s rights.26

Regional context

South East Asia consists of 11 countries with a total population of more than 640

million people with diverse economic, political and sociocultural systems.27 22

percent of the population in the South East Asia remain below the ‘Asian poverty

line’ of 1.51 USD/person/day.28,29 While a majority of the population in the region

still live in rural areas, urbanization is rapidly increasing and is projected to reach 64

percent by 2050.30 Migration, both domestic and international, is also growing and

together with the urbanization huge challenges to children’s well-being are created.

26 The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has 10 member states: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the

Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. 27 http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/south-eastern-asia-population/ 28 Poverty in Asia – A deeper Look. Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific. Special Chapter. Asian Development Bank. 2015. 11 p.

https://think-asia.org/bitstream/handle/11540/739/ki2014-special-chapter.pdf?sequence=3 29 Using $1.51/person/day as the extreme poverty line. Poverty in Asia is estimated by the Asian Development Bank as the average of

national poverty lines of the nine least developed countries in Asia and the Pacific: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, the Lao

People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Nepal, Pakistan, the Solomon Islands, and Tajikistan. 30 United Nations, “World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision,” 2014

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/south-eastern-asia-population/

https://think-asia.org/bitstream/handle/11540/739/ki2014-special-chapter.pdf?sequence=3


Across South East Asia many children continue to face grave violations that

severely impact their rights to thrive and grow up safe in an environment free from

violence. Common violations are trafficking, sexual exploitation, physical and

humiliating violence, abuse and neglect, child labour, children being kept as soldiers,

children put into institutions or unlawfully detained.31 Although ASEAN countries as

a whole have made progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and

have set high aspirations in its new 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the

performance is uneven among countries and even within countries. Services that may

help to prevent violations or provide support to affected children and families are

less available to the poor and marginalized.

Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP) is highly prevalent across Asia with

deep roots in social norms and culture. In South East Asia, Save the Children in the

Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam has been proactively working to

prohibit PHP, both in the countries and regionally. The governments of the

Philippines and Thailand have both accepted the Universal Periodic Review

recommendations for prohibition in all settings, while the governments in Myanmar

and Vietnam have not yet made clear commitments to law reform.32 Greater focus is

therefore needed to eliminating and prohibiting PHP both nationally and regionally.

Mongolia became the first Asian country to prohibit PHP in all settings in March,

2016, though progress has been slow in other countries’ work towards legal reform.

In many of the ASEAN countries, the legal framework still do not comply with

the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All

Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or other human rights treaties. The

implementation of child-specific laws and policies is weak. Although the region has

one of the world’s highest foreign investment inflows, basic services for children are

not prioritized in public investments.33 Corruption and weak governance prevent

already limited resources from reaching the children.

Many corporations are investing and sourcing opportunities in South East Asia.

Some of these companies are slowly understanding their role in protecting children’s

rights in their businesses, and CSOs in the region are step by step beginning to

understand that companies are not only a source of funding for social projects, but

also important factors and actors in themselves to protect children’s rights.

Given that socio-political conditions in ASEAN vary among member countries,

the role and space for civil society and the capacity of local CSOs to promote and

protect children’s rights also varies from one country to another. Local and

international CSOs have played many roles, from advocacy and the delivery of basic

services to monitoring the performance and accountability of state institutions. CSOs

have been crucial in raising public awareness on issues affecting children. Civil

society’s contribution to good governance for children come in a variety of forms:

31 http://www.unicef.org/eapro/activities_3601.html 32 http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/legality-

tables/East%20Asia%20and%20Pacific%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf 33 ILO and ADB, “ASEAN community 2015: Managing integration for better jobs and shared prosperity,” 2014

http://www.unicef.org/eapro/activities_3601.html


monitoring children’s rights, offering expert information on specific issues, providing

technical support to government in policy formulation and implementation, or

monitoring the consequences of such policies.34

Strategic Focus

Building on the gains from the earlier programming period, the next five years will

focus on reducing prevalence of physical and humiliating punishment (PHP) in all

settings in the targeted countries in the region, and in implementing legal and policy

reforms to address gaps in, and violations of, children’s rights. In the Philippines,

Save the Children established a signature program ‘Safer homes and communities’ in

2014, with a variety of components all

contributing to a good governance

program for children. One component is

advocating for legal reform. Another,

training of teachers, parents and

caregivers in a child rights-based program

called Positive Discipline in Everyday

Parenting/Teaching.35 A third component

is awareness raising on the negative

effects of PHP, and to mobilise the public

for attitude change and enactment of the

law. SC Sweden will always continue to

put an extra effort in including boys and

men, not least men in their role as fathers

and teachers. This way of working will be

scaled up in the coming years, but how far we will be able to reach in each country

will vary. Much depends on the current status and the political context. In Vietnam,

the program cannot foresee a legal change during this planning period, and focus will

therefore be on public awareness and practical training for parents with significant

reach for behavioural change.

During the period, countries in South East Asia will team up with Save the

Children’s Centre for Child Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility (CCR CSR)

based in China to provide training of partners and increased knowledge of child

rights and business principles.36

SC Sweden has laid the foundation for constructive engagements with civil society

and government in the ASEAN region.

The creation of CRC Asia in 2012, as an ASEAN regional actor, is now followed

by a partnership relation with Save the Children. In 2017–2021, SC Sweden will

34 Chong, Terence, An ASEAN Community for All: Exploring the Scope for Civil Society Engagement. 2011 35 Positive Discipline is a method with which parents and teachers (and other professionals who meet children) can learn more about how

children develop and how they themselves can develop their relationship with the children accordingly. 36 Save the Children’s Centre for Child Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility (CCR CSR) based in China has been a pioneer in advising

businesses on child rights in the Asian region since 2009.


continue to strengthen the coalition and scale-up and replicate work done nationally

and regionally. SC Sweden will support CRC Asia members to take more active part

in national and regional advocacy, particularly in the implementation of the ASEAN

Regional Plan of Action on the Elimination of Violence Against Children, adopted in

2015.

SC Sweden sees a clear added value in building civil society partners’ technical and

organisational capacities thus strengthening their ability to influence governments at

national and ASEAN levels to implement recommendations related to child rights.

The program will further support them, including child-led organisations, to

undertake actions relevant to child rights monitoring and to raise the concerns of

different child rights accountability mechanisms.


► In partnership with CSOs and others in targeted countries, the program will

carry out research for more evidence to strengthen the regional CRG

program, e.g. through a legislative review on violence against children vis-à-

vis children’s rights and international human rights standards;37 or on benefits

and threats to children’s rights from the implementation of the ASEAN

economic integration; or through a mapping of government investment for

children’s health, education and protection in ASEAN member states.

► In Myanmar, the program will engage actively with the NGO Child Rights

Working Group and with other CSOs to continue advocating the Myanmar

National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) for official endorsement of

a Child Rights Divisions under their jurisdiction.

► In Vietnam, the program’s good reputation and leverage will contribute to

the inclusion of children and young people in the ordinary work of civil

society actors. These organisations are now leading non-child focused

networks that at the end of this coming planning period will have

encompassed a clear child rights agenda.

Middle East

In the Middle East (MIE), Save the Children Sweden

will continue to support the occupied Palestinian

territories and Yemen and enhance the capacity of

their governments to uphold the rights of all children

through child-friendly systems and structures, with

special emphasis on the most marginalized children.

SC Sweden will further capacitate and empower civil

society, caregivers and children to support the

elimination of violence against children.

37 Priority action identified in the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on Elimination of Violence against Children (RPA EVAC).


The Middle East regional program, based in Lebanon, will for the coming five

years continue its focus on strengthening the capacity of civil society and child-led

interventions to ensure government accountability and resilient national institutions

that are realizing and delivering the rights of the most deprived and marginalized

children without discrimination. The Manara Network consists of civil society

partners based in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and

Yemen.

Regional context

The region consists of some 16 countries with a total population of 275 million, the

vast majority living in middle-income countries.38,39 However, protracted conflicts

and the upheavals that have affected the Middle East and North Africa since the

Arab Spring continue to affect the communities and have left instability, and in the

case of Syria, civil war, in their wake. This insecurity exposes children to violations

on all sorts of rights, such as the right to life and survival, the right to education and

to protection from all types of violence, and especially for the most vulnerable

groups like children with disabilities, internally displaced children, refugees and

children living and working on the streets.

The war in Syria has now entered into its sixth year, a conflict that has displaced

millions of children and adults. Up till now over 11 million people have been forced

to flee their homes and it is the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time.40

Indiscriminate and brutal violence against civilians, as well as the denial of their aid

has forced half of the population to flee their homes, with 6.6 million people

displaced inside the country and another 4.8 million refugees seeking safety and

assistance in neighbouring countries. The situation in Lebanon and Jordan challenges

the existing systems. Host communities are carrying an immense burden. Lebanese

national services for health, education and infrastructure are overstretched. For many

of the poorest and most vulnerable communities, including displaced Syrian families

and Lebanon’s long-term Palestine refugees, daily life is increasingly dominated by

poverty and debt. This manifests itself directly in restricted services and

opportunities for children and young people.

The Yemen conflict escalated in 2015 and nearly 90 percent of the children are

now in need of emergency humanitarian aid and their situation, the desperate plight

of 10 million children is still being largely ignored. The dire situation for children has

compounded an already severe humanitarian situation and prompted a large scale

protection crisis.

In the occupied Palestinian territory, Palestinian children and their families

continue to live in an environment characterised by violence, poverty and insecurity.

Nearly 2 million children, almost half of the total population, continue to suffer from

38 https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Mellan%C3%B6sterns_l%C3%A4nder 39 http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/mena, 40 http://syrianrefugees.eu/

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Mellan%C3%B6sterns_l%C3%A4nder

http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/mena

http://syrianrefugees.eu/


the impact of occupation and intra-Palestinian division. In the West Bank and Gaza,

severe restrictions on movement in all areas of the country and the continuing

political instability have depleted family coping mechanisms and led to a significant

deterioration of services, affecting all aspects of child well-being.

As a result of the increased stress on the parents due to the turmoil in the region,

coupled with cultural acceptance of corporal punishment, children are experiencing

relatively high levels of violence at home, severely affecting their expressed right to

live free from violence. The governments in the Middle East are increasingly

enacting laws to prohibit corporal punishment against children in all settings,

including the home. Even so, Israel is the only state that has achieved prohibition in

all settings (April, 2016). Occupied Palestinian territory and Yemen are so far states

without a clear commitment to law reform in all settings. Yemen has prohibition in

schools and penal institutions, the oPt to some extent.41

The civil society space in these countries suffer from various challenges that

include difficulties in accessing the population controlled by armed groups (Iraq), the

government’s restrictions on the mobilisation of civil society (Egypt), the lack of

proper legislative framework to which the government can be held accountable by

the civil society (Jordan), the lack of money and prioritization of child rights in

combination with widespread corruption (Lebanon), and the absence of a legitimate

government coupled with the high security risks that affects effective participation of

children (Yemen). Civil society organisations are nonetheless acting as watchdogs

and contributing to the provision of basic services in all countries in the region. In

oPt over 90 percent of social services in all sectors are managed by CSOs. Child

rights and human rights organisations have a long and diverse experience, excellent

outreach and acceptance by communities in which they operate.

Strategic Focus

Based on lessons learnt from previous period, SC Sweden will in the coming five

years support the Manara Network to become a strong advocacy platform to push

governments to change laws, policies and practices related to the realization of

children’s rights and ensure that child-friendly systems and structures are in place to

prevent and respond to violations of these rights. Equally important is the support to

child participation and child- or youth-led initiatives to further empower children and

youths in the region to become socially aware rights activists - given tools and

knowledge to represent both themselves and their peers in the wider community -

driving the change along. Partners’ work to promote child protection in their

countries will be further developed in oPt and Yemen.

41 http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/legality-tables/Middle%20East%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf

http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/legality-tables/Middle%20East%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf


The program is about supporting civil society, children and communities to be

participants in the change and in hold

duty bearers to account, taking into

consideration the equal participation of

boys and girls, men and women, the most

vulnerable and marginalized children that

includes refugees, internally displaced,

children with disabilities and children

facing all forms of violence and

oppression.

SC Sweden sees a clear added value in

building civil society partners’ technical

and organisational capacities and facilitate

networking and strengthening of their

capacity to create opportunities for

learning and exchange to enhance civil

society mobilisation around a sensitive agenda.


► In oPt, the program will support the development and revision of laws,

bylaws, policies, strategies, plans, guidelines, and protocols together with

national key stakeholders that support the commitment towards child rights

as per the gaps identified in the reports to the UN, the national and child

monitoring reports and the recommendations from the Universal Periodic

Review.

► In Yemen, the program will continue to support and empower the Child

Parliament to ensure that children participate in all the processes and the

Parliament’s capacity benefits from the lessons learnt in 2016 and in the years

before.

► In oPt, the program will offer technical expertise to ensure that parents and

teachers are equipped with the skills and techniques necessary to practice

positive discipline, and with knowledge to eliminate violence against children.

SC Sweden also anticipates demonstrated changes in behaviour and attitudes

that favour protection of children from violence.

► In Yemen, the country program, partners, and other stakeholders will work

closely with government agencies to review existing policies and procedures,

especially on violence against children, issues around juvenile justice,

detention and alternative care, to promote alternatives based on international

standards and guidelines. Community-based alternatives and restorative

justice based on diversions will be promoted.


Europe

In Europe (EUR), Save the Children Sweden will

focus on one country: Kosovo/a, that will continue

the work to further strengthen and support a strong

and resilient child care and protection system and the

work toward legal reform to prohibit corporal

punishment in all settings. Local CSO’s, children and

other stakeholders will be supported and capacitated

as active participants and agents of change for the

realization of child rights.

The regional program, based in Kosovo/a, will for the coming five years focus on

ensuring that a preventative and responsive child protection system is put in place

and that includes mechanisms for child rights and is supported by strong legislation.

The emphasis is on governments to ensure their meaningful engagement with CSOs

and children in matters affecting children. Key partners are based in Ukraine, Serbia

and Moldova and new opportunities will be sought to engage other and new CSOs in

the region, contributing to a wider network for children’s rights as well as seeking

possibilities to involve them in emergency situations.

Regional context

Europe consists of approximately 50 countries with a total population of 742 million

people. The economy of Europe is currently the largest in the world and it is the

richest region if measured by assets under management. However there is huge

disparities between many European countries in terms of their income.42 The effects

of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 are still seen in Serbia and Ukraine and the

armed conflict in Ukraine has further added to their economic and social problems.

In Moldova the income of households with children is only 700 Euros a month.43

Many families in the region have a low income and face high unemployment rates,

at the same time less funds are available for public expenditures. This has a negative

impact on the quality of the education and the child care system as well as the

healthcare system (including reproductive health), adding further stress to the

households with children. As a result, many children are left behind alone, or in

institutions or with ageing grandparents, often neglected and deprived of most of

their rights. In e.g. Moldova every fourth child in rural areas has at least one parent

abroad, and both parents of 5 percent of the children have migrated.44 Children drop

out of school to work to support the household and care for their siblings and they

experience violence and risk sexual exploitation. The situation affects the poorest

42 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe. 43 National Bureau of Statistics, 2014 44 Republic of Moldova. Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2012. Final Report. UNICEF, 2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe


population and add to the existing discrimination of the Roma population making

them even more excluded and with even less access to services.

The migration flow in Europe is another factor that increasingly affects not only

the children in Serbia, Moldova and Ukraine, but in Europe in general. Children that

accompany their parents, or migrate on their own, from countries within as well as

from without Europe, are often exposed to severe threats of abuse, neglect,

exploitation and violence and to hostile environments. They are in a special need of

support as are the children left behind by their migrating parents.

In terms of concrete actions from governments to realize children’s rights in the

three countries, there have been some signs of improvement in certain areas, but

these seems not to be systematic nor sustainable. However, a major achievement is

that physical and humiliating punishment today is prohibited in all settings in

Moldova and Ukraine, and chances are good that it will be prohibited in Serbia soon,

too, since the government has accepted the Universal Periodic Review

recommendation for prohibition in all settings, including the home. In the region as a

whole 30 out of 53 states (July, 2016) have achieved prohibition in all settings.45 The

strong position in the region of SC Sweden’s partners, their work so far, and the

cooperation they have achieved at the local and national level is enabling factors to

the delivery of the expected, planned outcomes.

Strategic Focus

Based on the lessons learnt in the previous period, SC Sweden will further enhance

our partners’ capacity and the close collaboration to allow for more synergies

between regional and local partners in

the coming five years. This includes

partners building other partners’

capacity as per their expertise. For

example, in Moldova and Ukraine the

focus of the partners is, among

others, to follow up on and ensure

that the ban of physical and

humiliating punishment in all settings

is implemented and monitored

closely, looking particularly at

schools, and also to share lessons

learnt with other CSOs in the effort

to legalize a ban. Another strategy is

to further build on the experiences of

the broad and integrated approach to child rights governance and child protection,

often at all levels; local, district and national and engage new partners in the same.

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tables/Europe%20and%20Central%20Asia%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf

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In sum, the program will strengthen the partners; scale up and replicate work

done at national and regional level; build capacity of service providers and of parents

and children as agents of change; and ensure that flexible child protection systems

are in place and also respond to humanitarian crises. At country level, the strategy in

Kosovo is to implement integrated programs at municipality level to continue to

facilitate a holistic response addressing the most marginalized children in the country.

SC Sweden sees an added value in contributing to the development and

understanding of organisational capacity-building and the strengthening of its

partners’ capacity to be important actors in their communities for children’s rights.


► In Kosovo/a, the program will work in partnership with and support local

CSOs to strengthening their capacities to influence and advocate for

improvements to the draft child protection law to ensure that corporal

punishment is banned in all setting; lobby the national parliamentarians and

key stakeholders at national level to ensure that the law, with the required

budget, is approved by the Assembly; and advocate for a functioning formal

and informal child protection system with provision for equitable, quality

services that are responsive and compliant with children’s rights and

international standards, also during emergencies, such as increased migration

influx and natural disasters.

► The program will support partners in Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia and Kosovo

to work with children’s groups and through networks with other CSOs in the

production of various monitoring reports identifying children’s priorities, the

basis for strong advocacy initiatives. Partners will continue to involve

children in the monitoring process, aiming to increase number and reach of

the children involved.

Latin America and the Caribbean

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Save the

Children Sweden will focus on a regional program and

for the coming five years’ work in close partnership

with national and regional networks of child-serving

and child-led organisations in Brazil, Costa Rica,

Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico,

Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.

Save the Children and partners will improve

government compliance with international human

rights standards regarding children’s rights and that includes increased public

investment in programs for children and in systems to protect children’s rights. The

central premise of the program is that by strengthening the capacity of children,

communities and civil society to advocate for their rights and hold policy-makers


accountable, governments can be encouraged to meet the commitments they have

made to children.

Regional context

Latin America and the Caribbean consists of 33 countries with a population of 642

million.46,47 Latin America and the Caribbean is facing a continuing deceleration of

economic growth since 2012.48 Social improvements of the last decade, mainly

poverty reduction and access to basic opportunities, are being rolled back. The

region is now the most unequal in the world where 10 percent of the population has

accumulated 71 percent of the region’s wealth.49

Rapid urbanization, human mobility throughout the region - with over 80,000

child migrants detained in Mexico and the US in both 2014 and 2015 - and high

levels of violence in many countries have contributed to a significant deterioration of

the situation for children and adolescents. Inequality and social exclusion are

increasing in the region, particularly affecting indigenous and afro-descent groups.

Extremely harsh conditions during all stages of the migratory processes, sexual

violence, high levels of homicides and extreme violence, physical and humiliating

punishment being a common practice at homes and in schools, bullying and sexual

harassment causing school dropout and teen pregnancies, cyberbullying, grooming

and sexual abuse on the internet is the reality for millions of children in the region.

The growing access of children to Information and Communication Technologies is

an opportunity for development, but can also lead to children facing risks without

adequate preparedness.

The region has improved the legal and institutional frameworks. Up till now (July,

2016) nine states have adopted legislation to prohibit physical and humiliating

punishment in all settings, including the home; and governments of at least nine

others have expressed a commitment to enact full prohibition.50 These legislative

successes reflect major achievements and currently 47 percent of children in the LAC

live in countries where there are prohibitions against PHP. However, there are still

many barriers to ensuring the legislation is implemented.

National child protection systems are still of much concern and governments are

not addressing child protection needs adequately. Financial resources to implement

regulatory changes are often lacking and public officials often do not see themselves

as part of a system, with specific roles that need to be articulated and coordinated

with others, and child-focused agencies working on this issue are not coordinating

sufficiently. Prevention is still not a priority. Save the Children and partners

recognize the current international trend that limits their actions, reducing spaces,

46 http://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-in-latin-america/ 47 http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-population/ 48 World Bank LAC Overview 13 April 2016. (http://www.worldbank.org/en/region/lac/overview) 49 OXFAM, 2015. “Privilegios que niegan derechos”: Desigualdad Extrema y Secuestro de la Democracia en América Latina y el Caribe.

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tables/Latin%20America%20and%20Caribbean%20progress%20table%20(commitment).pdf

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opportunities and resources and hence their power for pushing for change. Some

governments in the region are making it very difficult for CSOs to operate, especially

when dealing with sexual and reproductive health, protection of the environment and

human and women’s rights. Nevertheless, CSOs do have a key role to play and do

play a key role improving the lives of children in the region. There is a challenge for

them to combine and balance the requirements to offer service delivery, sometimes

requested by authorities, and to create space to play the role as watchdog.

Strategic Focus

Based on lessons learnt Save the Children will work in close partnership with

national and regional networks of child-serving and child-led organisations with

focus on children’s participation and voices. The program will be developed in close

partnership with national and regional networks (REDLAMYC, REDNyAS, and

MOLACNATS) to actively monitor

compliance with children’s rights

standards. The work also includes work

at national and local level with partners in

Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala,

Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.

These countries collectively represent

over 60 percent of the population of the

region, thus legislative and policy changes

have the potential to affect the majority

of the region’s children. Some partners

are identified as technical support

partners who will facilitate development of expertise and exchange of experience in

the region.

The Child Rights Governance component within this program will increase the

capacity of civil society organisations, including child-led ones, to monitor public

budgets and spending at the national and local level. The Child Protection

component will promote legal and policy frameworks to protect children from

physical and humiliating punishment and promote the use of positive discipline

methods. In partnership with CSOs and government actors, Save the Children will

work to strengthen national protection systems for child migrants, displaced and

refugee populations in Central America.

Moreover, the program will contribute to reduce sexual violence and protect

children against technology-based violence. The program also includes a Child Rights

and Business component designed to develop CSO’s capacity to hold the business

sector accountable for delivering childrens rights and by doing so becoming role

models in the region. Several themes cross-cut the program strategy: child

participation, non-discrimination, gender and sustainability.



► The program will strengthen and build capacity of partners to promote

alliances with diverse civil society organisations in order to identify key actors

(women organisations, indigenous movements, environmental organisations).

► The program include the development and scale-up of a contextualized and

piloted methodology to promote education without violence targeting

parents (Positive Discipline for Everyday Parenting) which include a gender

transformative focus.

► Building on past experiences the regional program and its partners will

strengthen the capacities of CSOs and partners to address sexual violence in

digital media and online and to advocate governments to create regulations

that prevent sexual abuse facilitated through ICTs.51 The technical support

partner RedNATIC52 will be instrumental in assisting countries in developing

regulations, plans and policies to promote safe and responsible use of ICTs.

► Build alliances for child protection rights, including those regarding the

child’s legal status migration and ensure quality assistance to children on the

move along the migratory route.

51 Information Communication and Technology (ICT) 52 Red de Organiziationes de Américana Latina por el derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescents a un uso seguro y responsable de la

Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC).


Cross-cutting themes

Save the Children recognizes that effective development work needs to be firmly

rooted and aligned with the organisation’s understanding of how sustainable change

for children is achieved, its views on rights and the democratic values that form the

fundamental principles for Save the Children as an organisation.

To make sure that the development cooperation adapts a Rights Based Approach

(with its focus on non-discrimination, equality, and children’s participation) and

integrates ways of working that reinforce and empower our partners as democratic

actors for children’s rights, foundational cross-cutting themes in all of SC Sweden’

programs have been created. In addition to these broader ‘approaches’, climate

change/destruction of the environment and conflicts have been identified as key

development obstacles that the operation needs to take into account in order to

contribute to sustainable development.

The cross-cutting themes of SC Sweden, that should permeate the organisation’s

work, are:

► Child Rights Programming (Save the Children’s Rights Based Approach),

including:

Non-Discrimination

Gender Equality

Child Participation

► Strengthening of the civil society, including:

Civil Society Partnerships

Partner Capacity-building

Civil society space

► Conflict sensitivity

► Environment

Common for cross-cutting themes are that they are both means and ends to our

work. That is, they are not only considered objectives (included and followed-up

through our development programs), but will also define and influence our working

methods.

The integration of cross-cutting themes should be regarded as a permanent

process that requires long-term commitment; on-going knowledge development and

dialogue; adaptation of systems; development of tools; continuous capacity-building

and awareness raising; and oversight and follow-up. As part of an international

organisation, with various members and sometimes competing interests, the

successful integration of cross-cutting themes also requires ‘internal’ advocacy both

vis-à-vis SC International and other members and a readiness to lead the global

organisation, when and if necessary. The engagement of the global organisation is

necessary to safeguard the quality in programs funded by SC Sweden, but will also


contribute to the strengthening of the cross-cutting themes throughout the

organisation and in all work of the global organisation and its various members, thus

creating a strong added value to the thematic work of SC Sweden.

A precondition for the effective integration of the cross-thematic themes in our

programs is that SC Sweden has the necessary in-house capacity to:

► Conduct, support and coordinate knowledge development.

► Define policies, strategies and guidance that contribute to effective

integration of cross-cutting themes in our programs.

► Develop and continuously adapt and improve methods and systems, i.e.

making positions, policies and guidance practically applicable through tools,

guidance, formats and manuals.

► Provide capacity-building and support to partners and relevant functions

within SC Sweden and SC International.

► Provide oversight and monitoring of the programs.

► Influence and lead the global organisation, SC International, when

strategically relevant.

► Engage in external advocacy and contribute to international discourse.

To ensure the quality in the programs under the cross-cutting themes, work in all

areas outlined above is continuously necessary, but the focus and emphasis will vary

over time. In relation to Sida funded programs, however, follow-up and quality

assurance of the cross-cutting themes’ integration in the programs, are always

included in SC Sweden’s core responsibility.

Below follows a description of the main ambitions and the focus of SC Sweden’s

work on method development in, and methodological support to, the cross-thematic

themes.

Child Participation

Save the Children Sweden’s ambition is that child participatory

approaches that contribute to strengthen children as citizens are

applied in all programs and projects.

Despite considerable progress in the work to achieve children’s rights over the past

25 years, very few countries have fully recognized children as active agents in their

own lives. In general, children continue to be viewed as passive recipients of adult

care and protection, with legislative frameworks operating on a presumption of

incompetence until children reach 18 years of age. Far too often, adults make

decisions on behalf of children without any reference to the children’s own

knowledge, experience or preferences. Adults need to recognize that the right to be

heard applies to individual children in relation to decisions that affect their lives

specifically, but also to the wider arena of policy-making and service provision.


Save the Children Sweden approaches children’s participation both as an

individual right – to have their views heard and taken into account in issues

concerning them – and as an ambition across all themes. Programs supported by SC

Sweden should always contribute to a strengthened position of children as citizens in

the societies and contexts where SC Sweden works.

Save the Children Sweden’s priorities during program period

Save the Children Sweden has over the last decades been spearheading child

participation and this will remain an absolute top priority for the organisation. SC

Sweden has over time built the necessary knowledge base and policies as well as the

tools, guidance, and formats required to support child participation in the programs.

In order to strengthen and assure the child participation results in our Sida funded

programs, key priorities in SC Sweden’ thematic work/support are:

► Maintain and capitalize on already achieved levels of expertise in child

participation and when necessary review and tweak existing tools, formats

and guidance etc.

► Capacity-building support and technical support to implementing country

offices and partners.

► Oversight, monitoring and follow-up of child participation aspects in the

programs.

► Strengthen SC Sweden’s position as a leading Save the Children member in

child participation and push the agenda on child participation within the

global organisation. During the previous programming period SC Sweden has

been successful in pushing for and supporting the creation of a permanent

working group on child participation in the formal structure of SC

International. A continued engagement to ensure that the global organisation

gives priority to and build capacity for child participation is regarded as

necessary to improve and safeguard the quality in the programs both in the

shorter and longer perspective.

Gender Equality

Save the Children Sweden’s ambition is that all programs supported

by SC Sweden are gender-sensitive as a minimum standard, and aim

at being gender transformative.

Gender equality is a basic right for all people, including girls and boys. Based on this

understanding, Save the Children believes that it is critical to directly address gender

discrimination and promote gender equality in order to advance the organisation’s

vision of a world where every child attains its equal right to survival, protection,

development, and participation. Gender inequalities cut across all thematic areas.


While contexts and gender roles vary from place to place, inequalities occur

everywhere.

Gender equality is an essential component of a child rights approach. Save the

Children needs to address the root causes of gender inequality and address social

norms and institutions that reinforce gender inequalities. Traditionally, gender-

focused work has primarily targeted women and girls. Save the Children Sweden

recognizes that it is critical to also engage men and boys in order for change to be

meaningful and sustainable. Engaging men and boys around topics of caring

fatherhood, parenting, positive role modelling, and gender equality completes the

circle of care that a gender-transformative approach demands.

Gender should be mainstreamed throughout the program cycle in all programs

supported by SC Sweden in accordance with Save the Children’s guidelines, and

engage in gender programming. The longer-term ambition is that all SC Sweden’s

programs should be gender transformative. As a minimum standard they should all

be gender-sensitive.


To ensure overall support and capacity for this endeavour, be it in the head office,

country office or among partners, the organisational culture needs to be influenced.

Save the Children Sweden will prioritize gender analysis as a core element of

program design, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting to ensure that girls and boys,

women and men, have equal opportunity to participate in, influence and benefit from

the programs.

In order to lift this important issue higher on Save the Children’s agenda, SC

Sweden will support programs, advocate, partner and organize for gender equality.

SC Sweden will work gender-sensitively as a minimum standard with the goal that all

programs shall be gender transformative. SC Sweden will be the innovator for high-

impact and high-quality programming by identifying and addressing the root causes

of gender inequalities and thereby supporting girls and boys in fulfilling their equal

rights.

Key priorities are:

► Capacity-building and technical support to country offices and partners on

gender aspects in the implementation of programs funded by SC Sweden.

Special focus in supporting programs to go from being gender-sensitive to

gender transformative.

► Provide oversight, monitoring and follow-up of the gender perspective in the

programs.

► Through and together with other international partners push the international

agenda on boys’ and girls’ gender equality with a particular focus on

spearheading the international discourse on boys’ and men’s engagement.


► Provide support and participate in SC International’s gender working group.

SC Sweden has been a leading force in pushing the agenda on gender within

the global organisation. SC Sweden’s continued engagement at this level is

important to increase the gender focus of the whole organisation but also in

order to ensure the quality of gender aspects in SC Sweden’s own programs.

Non-discrimination

Save the Children Sweden’s ambition is that all supported programs

promote non-discrimination and diversity awareness, with and for

children, in all sectors.

The right to non-discrimination is widely recognized in international human rights

law. In most countries, however, children have limited or no representation in

political institutions and are excluded from decision making processes. Although

children as a group many times face discrimination, in most situation specific groups

there are children that are especially vulnerable and marginalized and whose access to

rights and services are particularly limited.

Universality of rights is a key element of all programming for children. Save the

Children Sweden works for the elimination of discrimination in three main areas:

against individual children, against specific groups of children; and against the

population as a whole.

SC Sweden’s programs should analyse and find strategies to counter unequal

power relations and discrimination and their negative impact on children, especially

those groups of children that are particularly marginalized in society, such as children

with disabilities, girls, children from ethnic minorities etc. However, non-

discrimination is not only an objective for our work, it should also define and

influence our programs and working methods. That is, the programmatic work

should adapt inclusive strategies to ensure the participation and influence of

discriminated groups throughout the program cycle.


Save the Children has been working with non-discrimination for a long time. At the

same time SC Sweden recognizes that there now is a specific need to revitalize and

deepen the organisation’s understanding of how to work more effectively with non-

discrimination issues in the programs. To create a stronger awareness and

understanding of discrimination throughout the implementing organisation and

among partners, other key priority areas during the programming period are:

► Gathering experience and developing new knowledge on more effectively

ways to address discrimination in SC Sweden’s programs.

► Awareness raising, capacity-building support and technical support on non-

discrimination to implementing country offices and partners.


► Oversight, monitoring and follow-up of non-discrimination aspects in the

programs.

Civil society development and partnership

Save the Children Sweden’s ambition is to contribute to the

strengthening of a vibrant, democratic civil society, and its capability

to defend and promote children’s rights in all contexts where the

organisation operate.

A strong and inclusive and democratic civil society with the capacity to defend and

promote children’s rights is an essential part of any governance system and a

precondition for a sustainable change process to realize the rights of all children.

To work in partnership with civil society actors and with the objective to

strengthen civil society as democratic actors for children’s rights is at the very core of

Save the Children Sweden’s approach to development, and it should permeate all its

development work. This means that SC Sweden’s programs should:

► Have clear objectives and strategies for how the program will strengthen civil

society actors’ capacity to mobilize children and citizens, promote

participation and defend children’s rights.

► Promote and develop high quality civil society partnerships. I.e. adapt SC

Sweden’s partnership principles of joint ownership, transparency,

accountability and mutual learning.

► Include specific components and activities to support capacity-building and

organisational development of partners.


The thematic work on civil society and partnerships has the highest priority in Save

the Children Sweden, who has assumed leadership in relation to civil society support

and partnerships within the global movement. The ambition is to further consolidate

and strengthen this role during the programming period. SC Sweden has been

requested by SC International to formally assume a networked leadership role in

relation to partnerships. Partnership is not only an issue in program strategy but also

to a large extent a matter of structures and systems to manage programs. In order to

assure the quality in SC Sweden’s development programs it is therefore imperative to

continue to strengthen the systems for quality partnerships throughout the global

organisation. It is assessed as highly strategic for SC Sweden to engage at this level.

There is currently a strong global trend of governments restricting the space

available for civil society to operate freely and effectively in. This is of grave concern

and has practical implications for SC Sweden’s work across all sectors. With strong

support from SC Sweden, SC International has initiated work to address this. Among

other things Save the Children has developed a programming guide and adopted a


policy note on civil society space. However, there is still a need to deepen the

organisation’s understanding of how to better counteract the negative consequences

that these restrictions have on program implementation and how to find effective

ways to actively defend and promote an enabling civil society environment. Specific

priorities during the programing period are:

► Take network leadership in Save the Children’s global organisation in the area

of partnerships. That is, to lead and strengthen the way Save the Children

works to live up to its partnership principles of joint ownership,

transparency, accountability and mutual learning.

► Continued knowledge development and capitalization on already achieved

levels of expertise on effective ways to strengthen civil society through the

programs. A strong focus area here is to deepen the organisation’s

understanding of how the programs can more effectively promote and

safeguard an enabling environment for civil society, including children’s own

organisations.

► Review and up-date existing tools, formats and systems to ensure the quality

of program partnerships and the capacity-building support to partners.

► Capacity-building support and technical support to implementing country

offices and partners. Specific focus of the capacity-building support is on:

quality partnerships; more effective capacity-building support in the

programs, including organisational capacity development; and civil society

space.

► Oversight, monitoring and follow-up of partnership quality and the capacity-

building to support to partners in SC Sweden’s programs.

Conflict Sensitivity

Save the Children Sweden’s ambition is that all programs consider

their interaction with the contexts in which they operate, seek to

avoid causing harm, and reinforce positive drivers of peace.

Save the Children Sweden’s development (and humanitarian) programs operate in a

range of contexts where violent and non-violent conflicts exist. The programs

inevitably have an impact on the peace and conflict environment, whether positive or

negative, direct or indirect, intentional or unintentional. Whilst there are good

examples of programs that actively seek to reinforce peace, the majority of SC

Sweden’s current programs seek to minimize negative consequences through

participatory programming approaches.

Being sensitive to conflict, SC Sweden will analyse how context and program

interact and take conscious actions to minimize unintended negative impacts that

exacerbate conflict and tension, and to maximize positive impacts that reinforce

peace.



During the program period, Save the Children Sweden will advocate for conflict

sensitivity approaches to be mainstreamed into SC International’s strategic planning

and program cycle management processes. Geopolitical analyses will be carried out

to ensure contextual understanding and adaptation. Pilots, in which all elements of

the ‘do no harm’ principle are incorporated, will be conducted in a limited number of

countries where development and humanitarian programs coincide. Finally, SC

Sweden will invest in dedicated staff and in training and awareness raising for staff of

head office, country offices and of partners.

Environment and Climate

Save the Children Sweden’ ambition is that all supported programs

should, as a minimum, include environmental impact assessments and

measures to ensure that the program has as little negative impact on

the environment as possible.

The ambition is also that a growing number of programs adapt

strategies to actively address issues relating to environment/climate

change.

Environmental disasters, overuse and scarcity of natural resources, and climate

change are increasingly affecting communities’ and children’s well-being all over the

world. They also progressively gain in importance as main driving forces of conflicts,

migration and human rights abuse. These are trends that with all certainty will both

continue and intensify over the foreseeable future.

In order to contribute to sustainable development and children’s enjoyment of

their rights it’s necessary for Save the Children Sweden’s programs to increase their

focus on environment and climate changes. To have environmental impact

assessments is a minimum standard, but the programs need to move beyond this and

adapt strategies for how they proactively can contribute to resilience and a

sustainable use of natural resources, involving children and local communities, as

well as contributing to political solutions at national and international levels.


Save the Children Sweden’s experience of addressing environment and climate

change issues through its programs is currently limited, as this hasn’t been a strong

focus area for the organisation. There is, hence, a need for piloting and for

development of the organisation’s overall capacity and knowledge on how to

effectively work with climate change and environmental issues from a child

perspective.


Key priorities are:

► Gathering experience and developing new knowledge of how proactive

strategies regarding environment and climate can be integrated and adopted

in SC Sweden’s programs.

► Awareness raising, capacity-building support and technical support to country

offices and partners to increase resilience and sustainable use of resources.

► Oversight, monitoring and follow-up.


How Save the Children Sweden works with…

…Program and Operations Quality

As a global organisation, it is essential that all adhere to shared policies, standards

and procedures, with shared goals and approaches to achieving change for children.

The common internal control framework – ‘The Quality Framework’ – is the

foundation or platform on which the global organisation is built and it provides a

base from which all aspects of programs and operations are designed, developed and

implemented. It shows the minimum expected and offers resources to support

country and regional offices to do quality work. The Quality Framework consists of

SC International’s Essential Standards that specify the basic requirements outlined

for all Save the Children’s operations, mandatory organisation-wide policies and

procedures as well as best practice guidance, tools and templates to support staff to

meet policies and standards well.

The Quality Framework

The Quality Framework and all underlying documents are published on Save the

Children’s internal webpage, OneNet, accessible for all Save the Children’s members

and SC International’s staff.

The roles of Save the Children’s members and country offices in the program

cycle are defined in the Award Management Manual. Accompanied by a set of

separate guidelines, this manual provides comprehensive, step-by-step descriptions

of the awards management process and the respective roles of different actors in this

process.


While the direct responsibility for the development of and decision making in

relation to the direct operation, partner management and implementation of the

programs supported by different members lies with SC International’s country and

regional offices, SC Sweden as a member organisation has had a very active and

influential role in the program planning and design phase of the CSO Program and

will continue to be heavily involved. SC Sweden saw an increasing demand from SC

International and partners for support in relation to thematic development and

strengthened monitoring of progress and compliance during the period 2013-2015.

For the upcoming program period SC Sweden has adapted its organisation and the

staffing around the program to ensure quality program implementation and results.

SC Sweden’s key functions/roles involved in the implementation of the CSO

program are as follows:

Role Description

Award Manager Monitors and follows up on operation quality and compliance (See

compliance monitoring plan). Assists in planning, monitoring,

evaluation and reporting processes and acts as the main focal point

for each award towards SC International’s country and regional

offices.

Regional Thematic

Advisor

Provides thematic expertise, quality assurance and direct support in

form of capacity-building and coaching of partners and Save the

Children’s staff. Based in a region with frequent travels between the

different country and regional offices. Offers continuous support to

ensure quality in the programs. Conducts regional results and context

analyses to spread knowledge across the movement and partners, and

supports partners and SC International in the MEAL processes.

Thematic Advisor Based in Stockholm. Provides specialized thematic expertise/support

to partners and to SC International’s and SC Sweden’s staff within a

selected number of thematic/cross cutting areas. Develops new

cutting edge programming together with SC Country Offices and

partners. Conducts annual thematic results analyses and support the

global reporting processes.

Key Account

Manager

Manages the relationship with Sida. Coordinates planning and

reporting processes with regards to the Sida funded awards and

ensures that Sida’s requirements are being adhered to.

Budget Controller Provides assistance and oversight regarding the monitoring and follow

up of the CSO program at the global level e.g. global forecasts.

Grants Controller Supports Award Managers in the financial monitoring and follow up.

Quality assurance of budgets, financial data and reports received from

SC International’s country/regional programs.

MEAL specialist Offers coordination and support in planning, monitoring and learning

processes e.g. results workshops. Contributes to the global MEAL

process and capacity-building of staff through the participation in

several working groups at global level.

Area Director Manages and monitors the strategic direction of programs funded by

SC Sweden in a region. Acts as an entrance point and senior

representative of SC Sweden for donors and country and regional

programs.


Further details regarding the number of full time employees active in and funded by

the CSO program can be found in the annexed budget.

…Compliance Monitoring

As a means to further systematize SC Sweden’s monitoring and follow up of the

quality implementation in terms of donor requirements and operations quality, and

to complement SC International’s own internal control mechanisms and risk

management, a Compliance Monitoring Plan has been developed. The plan identifies

the specific compliance risks associated with the Sida CSO Agreement and the

compliance monitoring mechanism used by SC Sweden for early identification and

mitigation of these risks. The Award Management Section of SC Sweden will bear

the main responsibility for the plan and the development of standardized routines,

and the Award Managers will play an essential role in its implementation. Based on

the lessons learnt from the previous period and recommendations by internal and

external auditors, the plan will mainly focus on audit requirements and partner

management, as these have turned out to be the most critical risks.

In the first year, SC Sweden will focus on monitoring partner assessments and the

sub-grant agreements that SC International’s country and regional offices sign with

local partner organisations. Additionally, SC Sweden will follow up on and review the

quality of the partner audits as well as SC International’s follow up of

recommendations raised in management letters and the management responses and

plans developed by partners, by doing sample tests in each country involved in the

CSO Program.

SC Sweden’s ambition with the plan is that weaknesses in operation quality and

compliance are detected and corrected and that the number of findings and

recommendations raised by external auditors are reduced. The detailed plan can be

found in Annex 5.

…Monitoring and Evaluation

An important lesson learnt from the period 2013-2015 and the results analysis

workshops conducted with Save the Children’s staff and partners in late 2015, was

the clear challenge in assessing progress against the objectives and outcomes stated in

the log frames developed for that period. The traditional logical framework approach

that links output, outcomes and impact along with indicators, has neither been a

useful approach to provide evidence of change towards better outcomes for children

nor an approach that makes partners’ and other actors’ contribution to reported

results visible. It has been a challenge to track and understand how change happens,

since so many actors are involved in the development processes at country and

regional levels and the legal landscape and country specific contexts change

frequently.


The MEAL framework which SC Sweden will apply to the program in 2017–2021

will make use of various methods and tools to assess progress against agreed

objectives and outcomes. It is inspired by the learnings from the previous period and

is anchored in Save the Children’s global MEAL framework and system. The first

part of this section describes SC Sweden’s program specific framework and the

second part gives an overview of the general development and progress Save the

Children as a global organisation is undergoing in terms of MEAL systems and

processes.

SC Sweden wants to prioritize the operationalisation of a MEAL framework that:

► Focus on assessing progress in relation to the long-term global thematic

objectives 2030 as well as the CSO program specific outcomes for 2021.

► Achieves the right balance between countries and regional programs’

contextualized MEAL frameworks and the need for aggregated information

for global reporting.

► Enhances the organisational ability to promote internal learning and the

capacity to deliver quality reporting.

The illustration below is intended to describe the results hierarchy with partners’

projects and activities in its base and the global thematic objectives at the top.

The sources of information and data that will be gathered throughout the program

period are listed to the right. The results analysis workshops, mid-term review and

final report are the most important milestones in terms of analysing and gathering

results in which all stakeholders; partners, SC International’s staff and SC Sweden’s

staff will be involved.

Baselines

SC International’s

country and regional

programs will, based on

needs and context,

conduct baselines in

relation to their result

frameworks during the

first quarter of 2017.

The information

provided by SC

International country

and regional offices and

partners in the first

annual narrative report

to SC Sweden will be used as the basis upon which SC Sweden will make its global

program baseline. This baseline will be used to assess progress in relation to the

global program outcomes.


Annual Reports and Results analysis process

As part of SC Sweden’s ambition to strengthen the monitoring, evaluation,

accountability and learning (MEAL), critical to the success of all our programs, yearly

results analysis exercises will be done aiming at gathering and analysing information

region-wise as well as thematically in line with SC Sweden’s global program

outcomes. The global analysis is pivotal to monitor achievements and identify

challenges and deviations timely so informed decisions regarding resource allocation

and input to the country and regoinalprograms in form of capacity-building and

thematic expertise can be made. The analysis will be based on: data and information

provided by SC International in their annual reports; the input and information

gathered by regionally place thematic advisors; information from award managers’

dialogue with, and monitoring visits to, the programs; as well as input from the

thematic advisors based in Stockholm, who follow the progress within their specific

thematic areas.

Result logs

In order to collate the results of all SC Sweden’s programs, a result log (an IT-based

tool) has been designed, where reported results can be collected and tagged against

priority themes and global objectives. The majority of the data comes from reports

submitted by SC International, but also from SC Sweden’s staff, who registers pro-

gress evidence gained through monitoring and evaluation throughout the year, e.g.

reports analysis, field visits, evaluations, and program reviews.

Regional Results workshops

As a complement to the annual reporting of results from the country and regional

programs and to SC Sweden’s annual global results analysis process, regional results

analysis workshops will be arranged twice during the period. The first workshops will

be arranged in year 3 as part of a mid-term review and the second round of

workshops are planned for year 5 before the final report. The process of analysing

the program results will involve staff and partners across all regions, countries and

head office. The workshops are also spaces for discussion of qualitative partnerships

and other key development approaches in the program.

Evaluations

Save the Children has adopted the following definition of evaluation (based on

OECD/DAC53):

“An evaluation is the systematic and objective assessment of an ongoing or

completed project, program or policy and its design, implementation and results. The

53 Quality Standards for Development Evaluation, OCED/DAC, 2010.


aim is to determine the relevance and fulfilment of objectives, development

efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability.”

As part of the country and regional offices’ responsibility to follow up and assess

the progress and results of their programs and projects, they conduct evaluations.

The country offices are guided by the Save the Children International’s country

office Essential Standards for operation quality when deciding on when an evaluation

should be carried out (mid-term or end-of-project) and what type of evaluation

(internal or external). Learning and continuous improvement is an important

objective of evaluation and the essential standards also stipulate that the country

offices should develop action plans in response to evaluation recommendations and

findings.

SC Sweden also commissions evaluations and maintains a strategic evaluation

plan. An evaluation plan for SC Sweden’s new strategic period 2017-2021 including

the Sida funded CSO program, will be developed in the course of the autumn of

2016. With the purpose of ensuring and advancing the quality, relevance and use of

SC Sweden’s commissioned evaluations, SC Sweden will introduce a new

management structure for evaluation and will also continue to develop the technical

support and internal capacity development for evaluation.

Assessing quality partnerships and Organisational Capacity Development

A variety of tools will be applied to assess the program progress in terms of

development of qualitative partnerships between SC International country and

regional programs and the local partners (applying Save the Children’s partnership

principles) and the organisational strengthening of civil society partners (OCD).

These include:

► Partnership Assessment tool – All partners included in the program will be

assessed or re-assessed (where applicable) before being included in the

program. A specific assessment tool is used for this purpose.

► OCD Reporting Tool – In order to monitor, follow-up and report on

capacity changes of partners and the progress of Organisational Capacity

Development (OCD) activities, an OCD reporting tool has been developed

to assess capacity change in five OCD dimensions: Institutional

Arrangements, Implementing Capacity, Planning Monitoring and Evaluation,

Sustainability, and Financial Management. The country and regional

programs will also, as part of the annual narrative reports, provide a narrative

results analysis on progress of the OCD-work with a selected number of

partners in the program.

► Partnership framework analysis – This tool consists of indicator statements

of minimum and good and better partnership practice. The tool is designed

to be used by the country and regional offices to assess their own current

partnership practice in relation to Save the Children’s global partnership

principles and to formulate improvement plans. The self-assessment tool will


be mandatory for all programs included in SC Sweden’s CSO program and

SC Sweden will follow up on the progress in the implementation of the

partnership principles annually.

Further progress in terms of civil society and partner strengthening to achieve

outcomes for children, is anchored in the programmatic result framework for each

country and regional program and will be assessed as part of the annual reporting

and analysis process described above.

Gender Marker

The gender equality marker is a tool that provides guidance on and measures

whether or not a project meets Save the Children’s essential standard on gender sen-

sitivity. The tool was initially designed to be used at the proposal stage but is also ap-

plied at the reporting stage of a project both as a means to measure the quality of the

proposal/report in terms of gender sensitivity but also to measure progress in terms

of how the project has advanced in terms of gender equality throughout the imple-

mentation by comparing the scoring of the project at the initial application stage with

the scoring at the final reporting stage.

Summarized MEAL-plan – Save the Children Sweden’s CSO Program

What When By Whom

Baseline at country or regional

program level First Quarter SCI CO/RP and partners

Global baseline analysis 2018 first half SCS HO TA/AM/MEAL

Narrative and financial Report Annually SCI CO/RP and partners

Regional results and context

analysis Annually SCS HO AD/TA/AM/MEAL

Global thematic objectives/cross

cutting analysis Annually SCS HO AD/TA/AM/MEAL

Global deviation report to Sida 2018, 2019, 2021 SCS HO

Global risk analysis Annually SCS HO

Global indicators TBD MEAL/TA

Results log continuously SCS HO AD/TA/AM/MEAL

Results workshops Autumn 2019 and 2021 SCI and SCS and partners

Global mid-term report to Sida 2020 first half SCS HO TA/AM/MEAL

Evaluation at country or regional

program level TBD SCI CO/RP and partners

Strategic evaluations at head office TBD SCS HO TA/AM/MEAL

Final report to Sida 2022 SCS HO TA/AM/MEAL


Improving the overall MEAL system in the organisation

In order to further improve Save the Children’s work on MEAL in general, a project

to develop an Organisational MEAL Framework was initiated in 2015 by Save the

Children members and SC International. The framework describes the systems,

capacities and processes that Save the Children believes need to be in place in a

country office and regional office to deliver high quality MEAL across the whole

portfolio. It splits MEAL into a number of different components: Monitoring,

Evaluation, Research, Accountability, Knowledge Management, Learning, and

Culture/Function. SC Sweden has been leading the development of the evaluation

component and has been a key member of the groups elaborating the components

on monitoring and learning.

As part of the global strategy process a global results architecture is also being

developed to assess progress towards the global breakthroughs. A set of global

indicators in relation to the global thematic objectives are being reviewed and there

are plans for a pilot in a few countries in early 2017. The MEAL framework

developed for SC Sweden’s CSO program will be complemented by global tools and

indicators developed during the period if/when considered appropriate.

In particular, SC Sweden will continue to follow up on and promote the

development and application of the so called SPEL methodology:54 as well as the

processes and tools developed to assess advocacy impact, both being highly relevant

for the CSO program.

…Risk management

Risk management is an integral process in Save the Children’s planning and

monitoring cycle. Risk assessments are regularly made at different levels of the global

organisation. Internal control plans and mitigation strategies are developed and

monitored through different processes.

In addition to annual risk assessments, Save the Children’s country programs use

SC International’s award risk assessment tool, for each proposal equal or above

250,000 USD. The award risk assessment covers risks related to implementing

individual awards in accordance with Save the Children’s standards and specific

donor requirements. The assessment is used to inform both the decision to go for a

funding opportunity or proposal development and the planning so that risks are

mitigated appropriately.

SC Sweden performs annual risk assessments and develops internal control plans

as part of the annual plan of action where the international program is focusing on

assessing and managing risks related to its Strategic Objectives for the period. The

54 The Strategic Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (SPEL) Guide is designed to support the country offices to make strategic

decisions about what, why and how to program, monitor performance, assess results and impact and learn from programs which is

focusing on long-term changes in the structures and institutions of governance to realise children’s rights e.g. CRG programs, advocacy and campaigning.


CSO program is central to the annual plan of action, thus the risk associated with

this program is very much integrated into this exercise.

As part of the proposals submitted to SC Sweden for the CSO program, all

country and regional programs have also been requested to highlight the main risks

identified to the proposed program and provide a summary on how these risks will

be managed and mitigated. SC Sweden has especially stressed the importance of

taking into account child safeguarding risks for girls and boys (cultural aspects taken

into consideration) and risks related to local civil society partners. Partners’ risk

assessments and management plans will also be considered by SCI and is reflected in

the summary provided in the proposal.

During the general assessment and quality assurance process, when all proposals

have been reviewed by SC Sweden, risks have also been considered. The three most

critical risks (internal and external) for each program have been identified and in turn

been grouped and listed along with program specific risks as identified by SC

Sweden. The identified main internal and external risks are: weak capacity (thematic

and operational), shrinking space, natural disasters, conflicts and volatile political

situations, extreme exchange rate fluctuations, and non-compliance with the program

specific requirements and Sida’s guidelines and agreement. For further information

see the summarized risk table in Annex 4. The risk table will be monitored and

updated as part of the annual analysis process and feed into SC Sweden’s annual risk

analysis and control plan.

The identified risks in country and regional programs are monitored by the

country and regional offices but will also be followed up as part of SC Sweden’s

regular monitoring e.g. during field visits, annual meetings and in narrative reports

that the country and regional programs send to SC Sweden.

…Thematic Development and Expertise

In order to accelerate change in achieving Save the Children’s global breakthroughs

and SC Sweden’s set outcomes for 2021, SC Sweden will during coming years focus

on advancing knowledge development, and the understanding of the approaches

used in programs and advocacy work. The aim is to systematically capture what has

worked well or less well in SC Sweden’s programs, to identify new ideas and good

examples to be shared across the movement. Altogether, to enhance learning, map

out evidence-based approaches that will help to deliver towards the breakthroughs

and set outcomes, and ensure that these are shared and scaled up within country and

regional programs as well as among partner organisations. Further, it is also to stop

using those methods where SC Sweden is not reaching the changes for children it

aims to achieve. Additionally, to demonstrate how SC Sweden, in partnership with

others, tackles issues that threaten children’s ability to survive, thrive and achieve

their rights. By doing this SC Sweden hopes to maximize the use of the

organisation’s knowledge and contribute to the global development of Save the


Children’s and partners’ knowledge culture, and ways of working. SC Sweden will

have a particular focus on areas where the organisation wants to become ‘thought

leaders’; in physical and humiliating punishment, civil military relations, partnerships,

and child rights and business.

Knowledge development requires dedicated and appointed staff and partners that

are able to focus on the follow-up, monitoring, documentation, analysis, scale-up and

national, regional and international communication of programs and certain issues.

To maintain and strengthen SC Sweden’s position as a knowledge and evidence-

based authority on child rights, space will be created in ‘think tanks’ to develop new

knowledge, approaches and methods around partnerships and other strategic areas,

involving head office staff and by linking up with academia, country and regional

programs and partner organisations.

The thematic advisors at SC Sweden’s head office and in the regions have the role

of developing the thematic expertise. They provide thematic support, technical

assistance and programmatic guidance to SC Sweden’s country and regional

programs. They also assure the program quality and are responsible for building and

strengthening the knowledge, competence and capacity of relevant functions across

the organisation. Additionally, they also answer for planning – in cooperation with

partners and other stakeholder – learning events, presentations, workshops, round

tables etc. to share, but also to critically analyse results, conclusions and

recommendations.

A specific initiative within Save the Children is the development of signature

programs. They are interventions that will be evidence-based, replicable, and scalable

and generate positive results for children. SC Sweden has so far identified two

signature programs; ‘Safer homes and communities’ in the Philippines and ‘Children

Counting First in Public Spending’ in Zambia. SC Sweden is also planning to develop

the regional children on the move program in Southern Africa into a signature

program.

The signature programs require documentation of results and achievements and

building of an evidence base that will promote the multiplication and scale-up of the

programs in other countries. A great deal of SC Sweden’s learning and knowledge

management work will feed into the development of the signature programs, but will

also constitute stand-alone pieces of research and learning that will be instrumental in

building, strengthening and consolidating SC Sweden’s knowledge, competence and

capacity in child rights.

SC Sweden plays a crucial role in forming the agenda within two of Save the

Children’s five, so called,Global Themes. Both the global theme on Child Rights

Governance and Child Protection are co-led by SC Sweden with a steering group

representing Save the Children’s members. SC Sweden is also responsible for co-

chairing several of its sub-thematic task groups. The Global Themes are formed as

internal mechanisms for Save the Children members to engage in key thematic areas

to maximize their impact. They act as a technical advisory and servicing body to Save


the Children’s member organisations and international programs by providing

thematic leadership, expertise and a strategic framework for programming, advocacy

and communication. Through all global themes, capacity-building, advocacy and

support will be provided to the country offices in their development of their

strategies.

Finally, SC Sweden has been instrumental in the development of its Resource

Centre55, a digital library that plays an important role in the sharing and dissemination

of reports, evaluations, case stories, etc. The centre is an open source with over 6,000

full text publications on child rights issues. The centre has approximately 20,000

visits per month from across the world. Surveys show that a great number of them

are local CSO organisations including SC Sweden’s partners. The Resource Centre

also has editorial material highlighting topical issues, and creates websites for specific

events where links to relevant publications are gathered and used as the go-to site for

relevant material.

…Advocacy

Save the Children’s advocacy at regional and global levels aims to foster an increased

understanding and commitment to global sustainable development and human rights

issues among decision-makers at global, regional, national and local levels. Within the

scope of the CSO program SC Sweden will support three different advocacy

components which are complementing and strengthening the work done at country

and regional program level. The advocacy components funded under the global CSO

program will contribute to the achievements of the set program outcomes for 2021,

strengthen the local ownership, and ensure children are making their voices heard.

Political commitments made at local and national levels are pivotal for change, and

global and regional advocacy provide necessary incentives for these commitments. In

contexts where the local civil society space is limited, regional and global level

advocacy also contribute to furthering an enabling space – by doing advocacy on the

“shrinking space” issue and offering a space for civil society where it can engage with

decisions makers, and platforms and opportunities to connect with other civil society

actors.

SC Sweden will work through a number of key, mutually reinforcing, advocacy

components, all of which build on the linkages between the country level and global

level:

► Local to Global (LtoG) through Save the Children’s global advocacy offices.

► International advocacy platform engagement by SC Sweden child protection

advisor.

► The international Young voices initiative.

55 http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.se/


All of these components aim to ensure formal commitments to child rights at

national and sub-national level – and contribute to the larger advocacy work

undertaken by Save the Children globally.

The Local to Global approach is about simultaneous advocacy work at local,

national and regional/global levels to strengthen country and regional program

objectives and thus achieve better results for children. The linkages between the

country offices (or Save the Children members) and the global advocacy offices in

New York, Geneva, Brussels, and Addis Ababa are key, supporting dynamic

advocacy efforts from the local level up to the national and relevant regional/global

platforms. In the 2017–2021 period, LtoG is no longer a separate project but

integrated as a method into a selected number of country and regional programs

included in the CSO program. These programs receive an additional financial

incentive to strengthen their respective partners and programs in terms of advocacy.

In addition, the advocacy advisor at SC Sweden and the global advocacy offices will

work with partners in these countries to build their advocacy capacity and identify

opportunities at regional and global levels.

As global lead on child protection, SC Sweden has a special interest and

responsibility in terms of advocacy on child protection. SC Sweden wants to

strengthen the thematic expertise on child protection on global and regional

advocacy with links to national and local level across SC International and is

therefore complementing the advocacy offices with a Child Protection Advocacy

Adviser, working closely with the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection’s office

and other relevant international platforms such as the Council of Europe, Beyond

the links to the Convention of the Rights of the Child, the Violence Against

Children-study (VAC-study), and the SDG 16:2 and other relevant targets in Agenda

2030 addressing violence against children and the need for child protection at global

fora.

To further strengthen children’s capacity to participate in and to influence

decision making at country, regional and global level, SC Sweden has also taken the

initiative to “Young Voices”, a method where child participation is enhanced at

either national and global level, or both, with the aim that more children can

influence matters concerning them. Through Young Voices, child-friendly and

statistically correct surveys will be conducted at national levels that can function as a

baseline and advocacy tool but also to enhance child participation in advocacy. It will

also allow children to not only define problems and needs but to present solutions to

child rights issues in each specific context. The long-term aim is to use these surveys

for global advocacy, to highlight children’s voices globally, linking it to and using the

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and recommendations made by the

Committee on the Rights of the Child.


…Stronger members

Save the Children invests globally in strengthening its member organisations across

the world, building a strong global child rights movement rooted in the local context

and close to children. Within the structure for Member Growth and development,

there are processes to promote the continuous improvement of members’

organisations and governance. All members will be periodically assessed against

agreed criteria under the Member Accountability framework, through self-

assessments and peer reviews.56 The reviews will document best practices as well as

areas for improvement and recommendations.

Globally, Member Growth invests specifically in Prospect Members and Future

Leaders.

Prospect Members (currently Colombia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) are

country offices that have been selected to ultimately become members of Save the

Children, based on specific criteria including advocacy potential, fundraising ability

and local programmatic needs. The prospect members are supported by investment

and expertise from Save the Children members and SC International to help them

strengthen their voice in the country, develop their local fundraising capacity, and

build solid governance and adequate organisational internal capacities. The transition

to membership is expected to take roughly 5 years and will give these previous

country offices a stronger influence within the wider movement.

The Future Leaders (currently Hong Kong/China, India, and South Africa) are

members located in the global leading countries of tomorrow and therefore they are

a priority for Save the Children. As the world changes and power and money

continue to shift east and south, the strengthening of these Save the Children

members is essential to achieve the organisation’s aims for children.

Save the Children Sweden sets out to actively support the continued

strengthening of these developing member organisations as part of the CSO program

in the 2017–2021 period. SC Sweden firmly believes that these organisations, as an

integral part of local civil society, have a key role to play in defending, implementing

and promoting children’s rights. SC Sweden’s ambition is to build Prospect Members

and Future Leaders as strong child rights organisations to become the go-to

resources nationally for children’s rights and issues of concern, and be at the

forefront of building knowledge, exacting accountability and driving change for

children’s rights in their respective countries with high-quality programs. In addition,

these new Save the Children members will have a stronger voice and be able to take

an active role in our own global movement. SC Sweden will initially focus on

supporting SC South Africa and SC Philippines under the Stronger Member strategy

in 2017–2021, although other developing member organisations will also remain

potential candidates for this support during the period.

56 The following categories will be considered: Financial sustainability and growth oriented; Strong governance, leadership, and management;

High quality programs; Effective advocate for children; Strong brand; and Active role in the movement.


SC Sweden’s Stronger Member support follows a similar logic and the same

criteria for support to Organisational Capacity Development (OCD) of other local

civil society organisations and is a core strategy in SC Sweden’s approach to

development.

The overall objective of the capacity strengthening of new members is to build

these organisations’ overall and long-term capacity to give voice and leverage to

children’s claims for their rights. The support should be seen in the broader context

of strengthening civil society ‘in its own right’ and the capacity support to Stronger

Members can focus on any aspect/-s in the organisation that limits the organisation’s

ability to effectively fulfil its mission. In many cases it may therefore be relevant to

focus on, for instance, financial management systems; planning, monitoring and

evaluation capacity; organisational structures; human resource management systems;

etc.

Core principles/criteria for the support to Stronger Members include that the

capacity-building process is based on a holistic organisational assessment and owned

by the organisation itself, and that the capacity-building activities are implemented

and followed up in a systematic way – with clear timeframes, responsibilities,

objectives and indicators.

It is important to emphasize that the support to Stronger Members is for building

organisational capacity and not an institutional support. That is, all supported

activities should clearly translate into the sustainable strengthening of the

organisation over time. Key examples of disallowed activities include training of

individual staff members that is not clearly linked to an organisational capacity

development objective, normal operating costs that can be considered organisational

overhead (including procurement of goods unless specifically justified), payment of

core staff salaries, and fundraising.

Alongside the support for organisational capacity-building, SC Sweden will also

direct Stronger Member support to initiatives taken by these developing member

organisations to promote knowledge development, learning, and innovation broadly,

in their programs and operations.


Budget 2017–2021

Save the Children Sweden applies for 1,000,016 TSEK (including administration of

80,001 TSEK) for 2017–2021.

The budget provided in Annex 1 includes the following components:

► Summary 2017–2021 including Key Performance Indicators.

► Detailed budget 2017–2021 including program budgets at country/regional,

global and SC Sweden level.

► SC Sweden’s break down of costs at head office level.

Summary 2017–2021

A key requirement for the Sida CSO Appropriation Grant is the ownership and

direct involvement of local and/or national civil society organisations in the

programming. Save the Children Sweden’s target for 2017–2021 is that 68 percent of

the funds budgeted for country and regional programs are transferred to local

partner organisations.

In the planning all countries and regions have reached the targeted percent, with

one exception, Yemen (66 percent), that SC Sweden has decided to approved due to

the context.

The percentage of funds that the country and regional programs transferred to

local partner organisations during the previous agreement period varied between 66.8

percent and 69.6 percent. SC Sweden has been satisfied with this result but during

the results workshops and further consultations it has become clear that the partner

percentage as a goal in itself may hamper program quality and efficiency. Save the

Children is working in increasingly complex and challenging contexts and civil

society organisations are often operating in fragile states or in contexts where their

operational space is shrinking. In these countries, organisations have not been able or

allowed to develop properly and are often struggling to mobilise their constituencies

and to safeguard their own existence. Yet it is in these contexts that Save the

Children is most needed and where civil society space and children’s rights are most

important to protect. Although our partner organisations might be strong advocates

for children’s rights their operational capacity is often weak. Applying a strict and

high requirement on the level of funding to partners at program levels leaves only

limited amounts for Save the Children to support organisational capacity

development and in capacity-building around our thematic areas of Child Protection

and Child Rights Governance and rather than developing our support to the weaker

organisations in most need of our partnership the requirement risks leading us to

already well established partners with strong systems and ability to absorb funding

without further support and dialogue.


In the planning for the upcoming period SC Sweden has decided not to push for

a further increase in the partner percent at program levels. By this, SC Sweden will

continue to safeguard investment in training and other capacity-building efforts at

country and regional program levels and also to boost operational aspects, such as

the country and regional programs’ management, MEAL and logistical capacity.

When analysing the partner cost in proportion to the total budget volume,

including the administration cost and own contribution, in line with Sida’s new

guidelines, SC Sweden has decided to set a high ambition for the upcoming period.

Cuts have been made and cost saving measures have been established at SC Sweden

to further increase our investment in the actual programs at country and regional

levels. In 2016, 52 percent of the total budget was transferred directly to partner

whereas SC Sweden proposes in its budget for 2017–2021 that 54 percent of the

total budget is going directly to the partners. Including the costs for the estimated

percentage of time all SC Sweden budgeted staff are working directly with partner,

the key performance indicator for the partner percent is raised to 57 percent.

Detailed Budget 2017–2021

The presentation of the program budgets builds on the budget outline agreed on

with Sida during the previous agreement period detailing the budget amount per year

for each regional and country program, the global program costs and the SC

Sweden’s costs and including Save the Children Sweden’s own contribution.

SC Sweden’s own contribution towards the program is planned to include

financing from the Swedish Postcode Lottery and the Swedish Broadcasting

Foundation (Radiohjälpen). The budget for 2017–2021 is an estimate summarizing

up to a level of 15 percent but will depend on the final outcome of Swedish

fundraising campaigns and lotteries during the period.

The budget volumes per country and regional program, indicated in the detailed

budget is based on the operational costs that SC Sweden and the country and

regional programs agree upon on an annual basis. The detailed budgets which the

country and regional offices have submitted to SC Sweden, specify direct

implementation costs per objective, linking the budget directly to the

country/regional specific result frameworks. The budget also specify other direct

program-related costs in the categories, Personnel, External services (such as local

consultancies and other contract-based services, e.g. studies, surveys and other

thematic support), Supplies and Equipment, and Transportation. In addition all

programs have presented a detailed list of staff involved in the program and the level

of effort in percent. The partner costs has been presented both as a total and with a

breakdown per partner and year. A procurement plan is developed for all programs

and the total value of procurement per year is indicated in the detailed budgets for

each program.


The components listed as global program costs in the detailed budget are initiatives

and investment which SC Sweden have identified as strategic and which will

contribute to the achievements of the set program outcomes for 2021. The role of

the Global Themes, the global advocacy offices and the Stronger Member support

has been described in the section “How Save the Children works with…”. In

addition the budget also include earmarked funding for Child Rights and Business

investments at country and/or regional program level. Several of the country and

regional programs have, within the indicated budget for their respective programs,

planned for activities related to Child Rights and Business. However, taking into

account that this is a new program component for some of the SCI offices and

partners, SC Sweden has decided not to allocate all the funding at once but to keep

part of the funding to be allocated to especially promising partners and initiatives

during the period. Finally, SC Sweden’s has included part of its contribution to the

overhead costs for SC International Center (London) as well as the regional offices

in the global program budget

Breakdown of Save the Children Sweden’s costs

In the breakdown provided for Save the Children Sweden’s costs, all staff included in

the implementation of SC Sweden’s CSO program has been listed. The budget also

indicates the percentage of time they will spend on direct support to local partners.

In addition, the breakdown details the costs for salary, travel and activities for each

function. Each budget post has been described and justified in light of the value

added and direct contribution to the program outcomes defined for the five-year

long program.


Annexes

► Annex 1: Global Result Framework

► Annex 2: Snapshots from country and regional programs including list

of partners

► Annex 3: Example of Regional and Country Program Result

Frameworks Pakistan, Rwanda and oPt.

► Annex 4: Summarized risk table

► Annex 5: Compliance Monitoring Plan

► Annex 6: Budget 2017–2021

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Annex 1

Global Result Framework

Sub-theme

SC Global Thematic

2030 objectives

SC Sweden’s CSO

Program – 2021 outcome

Monitoring and demanding

child rights with children.

Improved accountability for

the rights of the most

deprived children.

Children’s rights are

monitored and mechanisms

for regular monitoring

improved.

Children influence local and

national governance to

ensure their survival, learning

and protection.

The state consults regularly

with civil society

organisations and children on

how children's rights are

respected and fulfilled.

Good governance delivers

child rights.

Open and resilient

institutions deliver child

rights.

Governance of children's

rights are improved (through

legislation, child rights laws,

child rights divisions, data

collection systems, local and

national structures etc.)

Public Investment in

Children.

Increased and improved

quality of public spending on

essential services for

children.

Increased resource allocation

to public services relevant for

children, such as education,

health, child protection,

social protection; and

improved quality of public

services provision to

children.

Protection of children from

violence.


physical and humiliating

punishment in the home and

in school.

Changed attitudes and

increased knowledge on the

negative effects of PHP

practice.

Countries have legal

framework in place to

eliminate PHP.


sexual violence.

Changed attitudes and

increased knowledge on how

to prevent and respond to

sexual violence.

Countries have legal

framework in place to

eliminate sexual violence.


violence in conflict situations.

Children at risk of being

associated with harmful gangs

and armed forces or groups

can access prevention and

response programs.

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Sub-theme

SC Global Thematic

2030 objectives

SC Sweden’s CSO

Program – 2021 outcome

Child Protection Systems. All children are protected

through a strong child

protection system,

integrating both formal and

informal components.

Improved community and

national child protection

systems, in particular to meet

the needs of the most

deprived children including


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Annex 2

Snapshots of country and regional programs

in the CSO-program 2017–2021

West and Central Africa

Thematic Priorities

Monitoring and demanding child rights with children,

Good governance delivering child rights, Public

Investment in Children, Protection of children from

violence and exploitation, National child protection

systems

Geographical reach West and Central Africa

Objective The capacity of West African states is improved to meet

their overall obligations to uphold children`s rights

Total Budget 59 000 000

Name of local partners Budget

Child protection alliance (CPA) 4 180 113

GAMCOTRAP 2 669 986

MAEJT 6 767 936

UWAC or any other Regional

network identified 6 455 166

Child Rights Coalitions in Cape

Verde (CCDE) 2 129 021

Guinea-Bissau (CODEDIC) 2 048 523

Sabou Guinea 2 499 059

Forum des Organisations de

Défense des Droits de l'Enfant au

Togo (FODDET)

1 290 603

COLTE 2 729 124

WAO 2 830 469

Senegal

Human Development Index ranking: 170 of 188

Thematic Priorities

Violence against children, Investment in children, Good

governance, Education, Monitoring and Demanding, Child

rights and business principles (CRBP)

Geographical reach Kedougou area, Dakar, Guediawaye

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Senegal

Objective 1

Civil society actors, including children organisations,

influence national and local authorities to put in place

structures and systems to prevent and respond to

violence against children.

Objective 2

Civil society actors including children influence the

establishment of accountable, responsive, inclusive and

transparent governance structures to ensure the

realisation of child rights.


Name of partner Budget

ENDA JA 8 378 325

OFAD Nafoore 2 273 884

Enfance et Paix 1 409 750

KEOH 1 330 038

Unies Vers Elle (UVE) 2 548 338

Association des Juristes

Senegalais (AJS) 2 001 018

CONAFE 9 358 646

Côte d’Ivoire


Thematic Priorities

Monitoring and Demanding, Good Governance, Child

rights and business principles (CRBP), Education, Child

Protection, Investment in Children, Good Governance

Geographical reach Abidjan, Man, Odienné, Abengourou, Bouaké.

Objective 1 Civil Society actors including children hold the

government accountable to fulfil children’s rights.

Objective 2

Child protection systems are strengthened to prevent and

respond to violence against children by empowering

CSOs and children/individuals.



Forum des ONG 2 267 554

Association des Enfants et Jeunes

Travailleurs (AEJT) 3 686 025

Notre Grenier 2 385 714

Fondation Djigui 1 074 776

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Côte d’Ivoire

Renaissance Santé Bouaké 3 742 837

Réseau des Acteurs des Médias

pour les Droits de l'Enfant en

Côte d'Ivoire (RAMEDECI)

3 044 888

SOS Violences Sexuelles 3 708 934

SILOE 1 369 269

ORASUR 1 120 000

East and Southern Africa Regional Program

Thematic Priorities

National Child Protection Systems, Protection of Children

from Violence, Children on the Move, Monitoring and

demanding child rights with children, Good governance

delivering child rights, and Public investment in children.

Geographical reach Eastern and Southern Africa

Objective 1

Child rights governance systems and mechanisms in East

and Southern Africa are strengthened, inclusive and

benefit the most deprived children.

Objective 2

Children in East and Southern Africa are protected by

strengthened inclusive community, national and trans-

national child protection systems.



Africa Child Policy Forum (ACPF) 8 600 000

Child Rights Network Southern

Africa (CRNSA) 1 450 000

East Africa Center for Human

Rights (EACHRights) 4 300 000

BONELA 1 400 000

Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) 3 270 000

Media Institute of Southern Africa

(MISA) 1 250 000

Media Network on Child Rights

and Development (MNCRD) 2 650 000

Tax Justice Network Africa

(TJN-A) 2 150 000

Dullah Omar Institute 4 728 645

Ufadhili Trust 3 170 843

SONKE Gender Justice 8 600 000

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East and Southern Africa Regional Program

African Movement for Working

Children and Youth (AMWCY) 2 631 579

Childline Botswana 2 631 579

Skillshare Botswana 2 631 579

SC South Africa -SCSA 3 002 841

SC Swaziland-Protection 1 748 000

SC Swaziland-COM 2 631 579

Africa Platform for Social

Protection (APSP) 2 150 000

CRNSA-Subtheme 1 2 232 000

Ethiopia


Thematic Priorities

Monitoring and demanding Good Governance, Health,

Child rights and business principles (CRBP), Investment in

children, Education, and Protection.

Geographical reach Ethiopia

Objective 1

By 2021, civil society, the private sector, children, and

communities influence government to ensure access to

essential social services to the most vulnerable children in

Ethiopia.

Objective 2

By the end of 2021, child focused policies, strategies, and

information systems supporting children’s rights (to

adequate health, equal opportunity to quality education,

and protection) are in place in child rights governance

program areas.

Objective 3

By the end of 2021, civil society actors including children

influence relevant government institutions to allocate

adequate resource for prioritized child rights

interventions and use those resources in the most

effective manner.


Name of local Partner Budget

Hiwot Ethiopia 2 596 153

Ratson Women Youth and

Children Development Program 2 211 538

Tigray Youth Association (TYA) 1 442 308

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Guraghe Peoples’ Self-help

Development Organization

(GPSDO)

2 596 156

Organization for Social

Development (OSD) 1 653 846

Rwanda


Thematic Priorities

Monitoring and Demanding, Child rights and business

principles (CRBP), Investment in children, Education,

Child Protection system, Violence against children,

Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP)

Geographical reach Nyarugenge District, Rutsiro District, Burera District,

Gicumbi District

Objective 1 Government is accountable to fulfil children’s rights in

Rwanda.

Objective 2 Child protection systems are strengthened to prevent

and respond to violence against children.



UMUHUZA 5 565 758

Child Rights Coalition 4 715 525

Children’s Voice Today (CVT) 6 892 688

Sudan


Thematic Priorities

Violence against children, Child Protection system,

Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP), Children on

the move, and Children without appropriate care.

Geographical reach North/West/Central Darfur, North/South Kordofan, Blue

Nile, and Khartoum

Objective 1

Child protection systems are strengthened to prevent

and respond to violence against children in Sudan

including children on the move.

Objective 2

The Government of Sudan adopts a Good Governance

system i.e. accountable for its commitments to realization

of children’s rights.

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Sudan



Sudan National Committee on

Traditional Practices Harmful to

the Health of Mother and Child

(SNCTP)

4 000 000

Sudanese National Society For

The Deaf (SNSD) 2 650 000

Reyada for Capacity Building

studies and Consultations

(Reyada)

2 000 000

Journalist for children (JFC) 2 630 000

SABAH Association for childcare

and development (SABAH) 6 970 000

Shamaa Organization (Shamaa) 2 750 000

South Africa


Thematic Priorities Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP), Children on

the move, Education, Monitoring and Demanding

Geographical reach Limpopo Province, Mupalanga Province, Gauteng Province

Objective 1

Children in South Africa experience less violence in

schools, homes and communities through strengthened

and inclusive community and national child protection

systems.

Objective 2

Governance systems and mechanisms functioning,

resourced and accountable for the realisation of children’s

rights



Phoenix Child Welfare (PCW) 1 250 000

Penreach 450 000

TBD 125 000

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Zambia


Thematic Priorities

Good Governance, Monitoring Investment in children,

Monitoring and Demanding, Heath, Education, Protection,

Violence against children, Physical and humiliating

punishment (PHP)

Geographical reach

Lufwanyama District, Masaiti District, Kitwe District,

Copperbelt Province – Lufwanyama, Masaiti and Kitwe;

Eastern Province – Chadiza and Katete, and in Central

Province – Chibombo.

Objective

Civil society actors, communities and children influence

government at national and local level to put in place

structures and systems that protect children and

strengthen accountability to deliver on and invest in

children’s rights.



Zambia Civic Education

Association (ZCEA) 4 123 571

Media Network on Child Rights

Development (MNCRD) 4 123 571

Copperbelt Health Education

Project (CHEP) 4 123 571

Civil Society for Poverty

Reduction (CSPR) 4 123 571

Lifeline Zambia, Child

Participatory Initiative (CPI) 4 123 571

Child Participatory Initiative (CPI) 4 123 571

Women in Law in Southern

Africa (WILSA) 4 123 571

South Asia Regional Program

Thematic Priorities Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP), Monitoring

and demanding children’s rights with children

Geographical reach Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and

Vietnam (managed by Thailand CO)

Objective Reduce prevalence of PHP in all settings in the targeted

countries Asia Region.


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Childline Thailand Foundation

(CTF) 4 200 000

Gabfai Community Theatre

Group 2 060 000

The life skill development

foundation (TLSDF) 4 240 000

Bangladesh


Thematic Priorities

Education, Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP),

Monitoring and Demanding, Good Governance, Health,

Nutrition, HIV

Geographical reach

Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Sylhet, Satkhira, +

nationwide with the NCTF (national network) at district

level (all 64 districts of Bangladesh)

Objective 1

To focus on enacting a law on banning Physical and

Humiliating Punishment (PHP) in all settings, promote

Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) in order

to reduce PHP by parents/caregivers and reduce Sexual

and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) in project locations.

Objective 2

To track Government commitments to child rights and to

strengthen the political and civic space for children,

adolescents and youth to participate in the democratic

process, and to ensure open and resilient institutions

delivering on child rights in Bangladesh.



Association for Community

Development (ACD) 1 597 276

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services

Trust (BLAST) 2 041 307

Breaking the Silence-BTS 1 597 276

INCIDIN Bangladesh 1 585 073

MAMATA 2 771 829

TBD 207 239

National Children’s Task Force

(NCTF) 1 082 341

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Bangladesh

Ain O Salish Kendro (ASK) 1 082 341

Breaking the Silence (BTS) 1 082 341

Social and Economic

Enhancement Program (SEEP) 952 976

Pakistan


Thematic Priorities

Child Protection system, Children with appropriate care,

Monitoring and Demanding, Good Governance,

Investment in children, Physical and humiliating

punishment (PHP), Health, Nutrition, Children on the

move

Geographical reach Lahore, Karachi, ICT (Islamabad territory), Punjab Rural,

Karachi Urban, Sindh Rural

Objective 1

Protection mechanisms (institutional and community-

based) are in place to prevent and respond to the

violence against children in all settings in nine (3 urban

centres and 6 rural districts) locations of Pakistan by

2021.

Objective 2

A vigilant civil society, including child support to the

government to deliver on the international commitments

for the children’s rights by 2021.



ICT (Islamabad territory) 3 256 786

Lahore Urban 4 885 179

Punjab Rural 6 513 572

Karachi Urban 4 885 179

Sindh Rural 13 027 144

ICT (Islamabad territory) 2 262 555

Lahore 1 696 916

Karachi 1 696 916

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South East Asia Regional Program

Thematic Priorities

Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP), Monitoring

and demanding children’s rights with children, Good

governance delivering child rights

Geographical reach South East Asia

Objective

To contribute in improved accountability for the rights of

deprived and marginalized children to health, education,

and protection from violence in South East Asia region.



Child Rights Coalition Asia

(CRC Asia) 5 750 000

Ateneo Human Rights Center

(AHRC) 5 432 242

Women's Legal and Human

Rights Center (WLB) 1 165 756

Partner (to be identified) 997 000

Myanmar


Thematic Priorities Good Governance, Physical and humiliating punishment

(PHP),

Geographical reach Mandalay Region, Kayin State, Chin State, Mon State,

Yangon Region

Objective

National child rights system strengthened through

enhanced voice and accountability, Monitoring and

Demanding



Child Focus Network (CFN) 4 025 000

Karen Women Empowerment

Group (KWEG) 4 025 000

Pan Taing Shin (PTS) 2 012 500

Social Actions for Communities

Changes (SACC) 2 012 500

Shwe Kyun Thar Network (SKT) 2 012 500

Upper KM Network (UKMN) 2 012 500

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The Philippines


Thematic Priorities

Investment in children, Child Protection System, Physical

and humiliating punishment (PHP), Education, Monitoring

and Demanding, Good Governance

Geographical reach Mindanao, Metro Manila

Objective

Contribute to promoting children’s rights, particularly the

right to be protected from all forms of violence against

children and especially physical and humiliating

punishment by strengthening government commitment

and action to implement concrete measures (such as

policy frameworks, structures and systems, plans of

action and budget allocation) for child rights, including

systems for prevention and response for child protection

issues; creating a culture of rights and nonviolence, and

strengthening children and civil society’s participation to

demand children’s rights.



Zone One Tondo, Inc. ZOTO) 4 545 455

Family Planning Organization of

the Philippines (FPOP) for the

Mindanao Action Group on Child

Right and Protection (MAGCRP)

4 527 273

Philippine Educational Theater

Association (PETA) 2 727 273

John J. Carroll Institute on

Church and Social Issues

(JJCICSI)

2 018 182

Baseline Study and Project

Evaluation Partner 392 000

Enet 2 727 273

Partner in conflict area (to be

identified) 2 218 182

Partner in indigenous community

(to be identified) 2 218 182

Social Watch Philippines 2 272 727

Civil Society Coalition on the

CRC (CSC-CRC) 2 744 000

Zone One Tondo, Inc. (ZOTO) -

C2C 3 130 909

Affiliated Network on Social

Accountability (ANSA) 2 250 909

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The Philippines

Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap

Panligal (SALGAN) 2 654 545

NGO supporting AKKAP 1 055 636

NGO supporting YMETCO 1 055 636

Policy research partner (to be

identified) 181 818

Vietnam


Thematic Focus Priorities Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP), Monitoring

and Demanding

Geographical reach Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hue

Objective

CSOs have space for systematic dialogue with

Government for fulfilling the gaps identified in the CRC

concluding observations.



Research Center for Management

and Sustainable Development

(MSD)

3 100 000

The Institute of Social and

Medical Studies (ISMS) 3 200 000

LIN Centre for Community

Development (LIN Center) 2 350 000

Center for Rural Development in

Central Vietnam (CRD) 3 050 000

Vietnam Association for Child

Right (VACR) 2 300 000

Middle East Regional Program

Thematic Focus Priorities Monitoring and Demanding, Child Protection system,

Good Governance, Investment in children

Geographical reach Middle East

Objective Improved government accountability influenced by

children in local and national governance in the MENA

region, through enhanced resilient national institutions

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Middle East Regional Program

that are realizing and delivering the rights of the most

deprived and marginalized children without

discrimination.



ALEF 418 482

NABAA 2 883 849

NADA 418 482

ECCR 418 482

MIZAN 418 482

DS 418 482

SOUL 418 482

AMAL 418 482

BAYTI 418 482

NOIFCR 418 482

Occupied Palestine territory/State of Palestine


Thematic Focus Priorities

Monitoring and Demanding, Good Governance, Child

Protection System, Physical and humiliating punishment

(PHP)

Geographical reach Regions of East Jerusalem

Objective 1

Improved capacity of states to respect and fulfil children’s

rights to survival, learning and protection as part of their

overall obligations to uphold children’s rights for the most

marginalized children through enhancing child

participation, inclusion, increased budget allocation to

children and child rights monitoring and reporting.

Objective 2

MoSA-led child protection system is strengthened to

prevent and respond to violence (physical, sexual and

corporal punishment/humiliating behaviours) against

children by empowering CSOs, caregivers and children to

support elimination of violence.



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Occupied Palestine territory/State of Palestine

Palestinian Center for

Democracy and Conflict

(PCDCR)

6 900 000

Association for Woman & Child

Protection (AISHA) 2 905 000

Palestinian Counseling Center

(PCC) 4 740 000

Juzoor for Health and Social

Development 6 900 000

Maan News 1 335 000

Defense for Children

International Palestine (DCIP) 4 910 000

Birzeit University 1 080 000

Qader 1 330 000

Yemen



Monitoring and Demanding, Violence against children,

Physical and humiliating punishment (PHP), Child

protection system, Health, Education.

Geographical reach Yemen with focus on Saan’a, oPt, West bank and Gaza

Objective 1

Civil Society actors including children having improved

capacity to engage with the government and other duty

bearers to fulfil children’s rights in Yemen.

Objective 2

CSO Partners including children influenced the

government to put in place structures and systems to

ensure prevention and response to child protection

issues.



Yemen NGO Collation (YNGO) 4 550 050

Millennium Development

Foundation (MDF) 4 550 050

Democracy School (DS) 4 550 050

Together Foundation (TF) 4 550 050

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Europe Regional Program


Violence against children, Physical and humiliating

punishment (PHP), Child protection system, Good

Governance, Monitoring and Demanding

Geographical reach Ukraine, Serbia and Moldova, Kosovo

Objective 1 Children are protected by a responsive child protection

system, supported by a strong legislation

Objective 2

Systems, structures and mechanisms for implementing

children’s right are in place in program countries and

governments are including CSO’s and children’s voices in

these processes.



Women’s Consortium Ukraine

(WCU) 3 930 000

Child Rights Information Centre

(CRIC) 3 670 000

Child Rights Centre (CRC) 3 386 500

new partner to be identified 3 065 000

new partner to be identified 2 399 000

Kosovo

Human Development Index ranking: ---


Good governance, Monitoring and Demanding, Child

Protection system, Physical and humiliating punishment

(PHP), Education, Child rights and business principles

(CRBP

Geographical reach Kosovo

Objective 1

Children in Kosovo are protected by strong, resilient and

care child protection system supported by a strong

legislation against PHP.

Objective 2

Local CSO’s, children and other stakeholders work and

participate in improving systems to deliver children’s

rights.



Syri I Vizionit 6 885 574

Handikos 5 864 254

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Kosovo

Roma and Ashkalia

Documentation Center (RADC) 4 401 320

Down Syndrome Kosova 1 950 000

Action for mother and children 1 500 000

Organizata per femijet pa kujdes

prindor 1 500 000

North Mitrovica 1 500 000

Rrograek 1 500 000

Grate Ashkane per Grate

Ashkane (GAGA) 1 500 000


Thematic Priorities

Protection of children from violence (physical and

humiliating punishment and sexual violence), child

protection systems, Monitoring and demanding child

rights with children & delivering child rights through good

governance, Investment in children

Geographical reach Latin America and the Caribbean

Objective 1

Increase States’ compliance with international children´s

human rights standards in the LAC region, including

increased public investment in programs for children and

in systems to protect children´s rights.

Objective 2

Decrease violence against children in LAC, especially

violence related to physical and humiliating punishment,

violence towards children in situations of human mobility

and sexual violence.



Acción por los Niños

(Socia 1 Peru) 4 150 000

CECODAP 2 600 000

Cedeca 3 400 000

EQUIDAD (socia 3 Peru) 3 900 000

Fundación Silencio (Fundasil) 4 799 592

Global Infancia, of the Asociación

Gobal 3 398 543

Global Infancia (sub-socio

Paniamor) 1 312 250

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Carribean Movement of Working

Children and adolescents

(MOLACNATS)

3 343 000

Paz y Esperanza (Socia 2 Peru) 4 250 000

Red Nao Bata 3 400 000

Redlamyc 10 154 830

Redlamyc (sub-socio RedNatic) 1 433 750

Ria/Rednnyas (socia 2 El

Salvador) 2 566 090

SC Guatemala 6 772 819

SC Honduras 5 945 148

Fundación Mexicana de Apoyo

Infantil A.C. (SC Mexico) 7 873 978

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Annex 3

Examples Country Program Results Frameworks

Pakistan Country Program

Component 1: Child Protection

Objective: Protection mechanisms (institutional and community-based) are in place to prevent and respond to the violence against

children in all settings in nine (3 urban centres and 6 rural districts) locations of Pakistan by 2021.

► Appropriate care

► Protection of children from violence (Physical & Humiliating Punishment)

► Child protection systems

Pakistan: CP Outcomes – Changes in legislation policies and practices

Intervention Logic Indicator/Progress Markers Means of Verification

1.1 Improved protection and

care for children on move in 3

urban centres

State’s commitment(strategy, programs and action plans)

towards the issues of CoM

Adoption, rolling out and monitoring of minimum quality

care standards for care institutions for CoM by relevant

government authorities

A functional referral mechanism developed between the

care service providers in Urban centres with the formal

child protection system

Policy statements and briefs

PC1 (governments annual plan) addressing CoM issues

Approved minimum quality care standards

Notification by relevant provincial and federal government

authorities for rolling out and implementation of minimum

quality care

List of care service providers / institutions following and

are incompliance with minimum quality care standards

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Pakistan: CP Outcomes – Changes in legislation policies and practices


Monthly reports on referral, reintegration and

rehabilitation of CoM generated through MIS system

Quarterly monitoring reports

Baseline, midline and end line

1.2 Reduced PHP in

communities, homes, and

schools in 6 rural districts and 3

urban centres

% decrease in corporal punishment in homes, schools and

communities

Inclusion of positive disciplining in formal teacher training

curricula

xxx formal teacher training institutes capacitated to deliver

positive disciplining as part of teachers training

xxx master trainers / teachers enhanced knowledge on

positive disciplining

Safe school policies are in place in 225 schools

Pre and Post assessments

Approved teachers training curricula with positive

disciplining incorporated

Approved teachers training design to roll out positive

discipline in teachers training

SMCs approving and allocating resources for safe school

policies and procedures

Operational researches

Database of formal and informal CP structures

Baseline, midline and end line

1.3 Improved prevention and

response mechanisms to child

protection violations in 6 rural

districts

% decrease in cases of child protection violations

Existence of interagency coordination mechanism for child

protection system in 6 district

Established linkages through referral and case management

mechanism between Child protection structures in urban

(CoM) and rural (CP System strengthening) work

# children (based on inclusiveness guidelines)benefitted

from prevention and/or response interventions by the

centralized integrated system

# of CPUs sustained by government within available

resources by 2021

MoU with district governments

Signed copy of approved interagency protocols by district

governments

Monthly reports of formal Child Protection System / Units

Referral Mechanism

Sustainability strategy developed and PC 1 prepared and

approved by Government

Baseline, Midline and end line reports

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Pakistan: CP Intermediate outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening


1.1.1 CSOs are strong

advocates for policies and

practices that address the

needs of CoM

Evidence generated around drivers and dynamics of

children on move in 3 urban centres to influence the

policy agenda and practice

Increased capacity, knowledge and understanding of CSOs

that leads to recommendations and solutions for

protection and care of CoM

Evidence generation studies and reports

Policy recommendations

CoM included as a target group in strategic plans of CSOs

1.1.2 CSOs have improved the

access of children on move to

quality care services (psycho-

social, child-sensitive social

protection and reunification,

rehabilitation & reintegration)

CSOs support the government to draft and roll out

minimum quality care standards for care institutes for

children on move

CSOs established the referral mechanism and monitored

the quality of services

Minutes of the meetings with government officials

Reports of consultative processes for the development of

standards

Monitoring reports on compliance with minimum quality

care standards

Printed copies of referral mechanism and processes

MIS to track and record the services provided to CoM

1.2.1 CSOs have successfully

influenced the inclusion of

positive discipline programming

in formal education curriculum

as well as in formal and informal

child protection mechanisms

CSOs as an alliance has designed, launched and evaluated

the child-led behavioural change campaign against PHP by

working with children, parents and teachers in 6 rural

districts and 3urban centres

Number and type of CSOs having improved skills in

involving children from all backgrounds in PHP campaign,

positive disciplining, lobbying and advocacy.

# and types of actions taken by CSOs to engage with

formal teacher training institutes for inclusion of positive

disciplining in teachers training curricula

Pre & post KAP

Media coverage (print, electronic and social)

Recordings of the radio/ Tv programs on PHP as part of

campaign

Case studies

Reports of CSOs meetings on PHP

Reports of teachers trainings on positive discipline

Minutes of meetings with Government departments

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Pakistan: CP Intermediate outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening


1.3.1 CSOs have supported and

established formal and informal

child protection systems by

involving children (girls and

boys) in 6 rural districts

# of actions taken by CSOs to advocate for and support

child protection systems (through monitoring, assessing

and reporting)

Informal CP mechanisms established by CSOs are

functional

MoU with district governments for establishing/ supporting

Child Protection Systems

Annual district level CRSA

District level database on CP

Child Protection action plans and implementation reports

Pakistan: CP Intermediate outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children


1.1.3 Children on the Move are

actively engaged in defining the

policy and practice agenda that

affects them

# of children participating in evidence generation and

activities targeting at influencing government officials

# of recommendations by child-led organisations/groups

to influence policy and practices in relation to COM

List of children part of the program

Document of recommendations by children on the move

1.2.2 Community members ,

parents and teachers practice

positive disciplining at schools

and homes in 6 rural and 3

urban centres

% of parents and teachers who have received training on

positive discipline demonstrate increased knowledge on

negative effects and changed attitude towards PHP

Pre and post KAP

Training and awareness raising session reports

List of voluntary actions taken by teachers and parents to

address PHP in communities, homes and schools

1.2.3 Child-led organisations

monitor the reduction in the

use of physical and humiliating

punishment in schools and in

the home.

% increase in children participation in PHP related

awareness raising and legislations activities

# of child-led clubs, groups and organisations monitoring

PHP

List of child-led clubs, groups and organisations working

on PHP

Monitoring reports of child-led clubs, groups and

organisations of PHP at village level

1.3.2 Empowered and organized

children and community

% increase in children accessing formal and informal child

protection systems

District level child protection database

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Pakistan: CP Intermediate outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children


members are promoting child

rights and protection.

Number and type of child protection action plans including

safe migration developed and implemented by children and

community members at village level.

Children demonstrate satisfaction from the child

protection mechanisms

Increased capacity of child-led groups to promote child

rights and protection

Child Protection action plans by child-led groups

Implementation reports of action plans

KAP on risks associated with unsafe migration

Registered district level Children organisations

Training reports

Partners: GODH, DevCon, TRD, SPARC, DCHD, Initiator (proposed)

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Pakistan Component 2: Child Rights Governance

Objective: A vigilant civil society, including children support the government to deliver on the international commitments for the children’s

rights by 2021.

► Monitoring and demanding child rights with children

► Good governance delivers child rights

► Public Investment in Children

Pakistan: CRG Outcomes – Changes in legislation policies and practices


2.1 Child rights are monitored

and institutional mechanisms

improved in the light of

international human rights

instruments (CRC, UPR, and

CEDAW) in 2 provinces and

federal capital

Submission and follow ups of Alternative Reports under

UPR & CRC

Number and type of concluding recommendations and

observations accepted and implemented by the state

Improved implementation of CRC recommendations at

National level

National and two provincial governments have enacted

four (out of seven) pending Legislative bills related to child

rights (particularly Child protection)

Copy of amended bills, laws, reforms along with

notification

Minimum care standards formed and approved by the

current authority for wider dissemination and

implementation notification

Teacher training curricula revised and approved

Directive for establishment of Child Rights commissions

Copy of amended bills along with notifications

2.2 Child Rights are delivered

through responsive mechanisms

of good governance in 2

provinces and federal capital

Implementation of Five existing child rights related laws in

Punjab, Sind and ICT

National Child Rights Commission functional and

monitoring, defending and advancing child rights in

Pakistan.

Base line, mid line and end line survey reports

Approved implementation strategy document

Notification and Approved TORs of the commission.

Relevant child rights directives issued to the federal and

provincial departments

2.3 Child rights are realized

through increased budgetary

% Increase in public spending on child focused health and

education, child protection and child-sensitive social

protection

Budget spending reports and Alternative Report

Meeting minutes on budgetary discussions

Baseline, Midterm and End line survey reports

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Pakistan: CRG Outcomes – Changes in legislation policies and practices


allocations in 2 provinces and

federal capital

Pakistan: CRG Intermediate Outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening


2.1.1 CSOs have proactively

engaged and have actively

involved children (girls, boys) in

the enactment and

implementation of child rights

laws and policies

CSOs are used as reference points/experts of child issues

by the government

CSOs are proactively engaged with Media, Elected

representatives and government line departments

Increased participation of children in advocacy related

interventions (including membership of CRM)

CSOs are demanding enactments and implementation of

child rights related laws and policies.

CSO alliance meetings, meeting minutes

Recordings of Media programs

Monitoring reports

Event report, photographs

Notification by relevant departments for implementation

of minimum care standards

2.1.2 CSOs have proactively

monitored and held the

respective government

departments accountable on

the situation of child rights at

federal and provincial level

CSOs are conducting Child Right Situational Analysis

CSO engaged in evidence generation exercises (policy

implementation analysis)

CSO are proactively responding to the child rights

violations

CSOs are managing Child rights violations databases at

district level and utilizing analysis for provincial level

advocacy.

CRSA reports

Policy analysis reports

Media reports

MIS record

2.2.1 CSOs have successfully

lobbied for establishment of an

Independent child rights commission established in Sindh &

Punjab provinces

Capacity assessment reports

Notification by the government

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Pakistan: CRG Intermediate Outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening


independent national child right

commission monitoring,

defending and advancing

children’s rights

Increased capacity of CSOs to demand for the

establishment of independent national human and child

right institution

2.3.1 CSOs have effectively

advocated for the improved

resource allocation and

spending on children

Strengthened capacity of CSOs for demanding increased

and more effective and accountable public spending on and

tracking of essential services for children (health, education

and protection)

Number and type of CSOs conducting research, analysing

resource allocation and spending on child focused sectors

including health and nutrition, education and child

protection system at National and provincial level.

Reports of advocacy events and meetings

Baseline, mid line and end line survey

MIS records of the CSOs

Pakistan: CRG Intermediate Outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children

Intervention Logic Indicator/Progress Markers Intervention Logic

2.1.3 Children have actively

participated in review processes

of UN Human Rights

Mechanism (CRC & UPR)

Improved awareness and participation of children and

individuals in UN Human Rights Mechanism (CRC & UPR)

Recommendations of CSOs and Children reflected in the

alternative reports on CRC and UPR

# of recommendations of girls and boys incorporated in

minimum care standards

Pre & Post KAP

Child participation reports in UN human Right (CRC,

UPR) in review process

2.3.2 Children have improved

understanding of their rights in

relation to resource allocation

Number of children (girls and boys) participated in

budgetary seminars, orientation sessions

Pre & Post KAP

Photographs, event reports

MIS records

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Pakistan: CRG Intermediate Outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children

Intervention Logic Indicator/Progress Markers Intervention Logic

and spending on health,

education and social protection

# of boys girls who have improved understanding of

relevance of resource allocation with the delivery of their

rights (health, education and protection)

Partners: CRM secretariat is decided on yearly basis after election.

Palestine Country Program

Component 1: Child Rights Governance

Objective: Improved capacity of states to respect and fulfil children’s rights to survival, learning and protection as part of their overall

obligations to uphold children’s rights especially for the most marginalized children through enhancing child participation, inclusion,

increased budget allocation to children & child rights monitoring and reporting.

► Monitoring and Demanding Children’s Rights with Children

► Governance Capacity to Deliver Child Rights

Palestine: CRG Outcomes - Strengthened functioning child rights-based national service delivery, reporting and complaints systems to

fulfil commitments towards child rights


1. Strengthened functioning

child rights-based and evidence-

based national legislative, policy,

information, reporting,

monitoring and complaints

Reporting processes (CRC, CRPD, OPAC, UPR) are

institutionalized, used participatory approaches, reflected

the gaps in child rights implementation, reflected the voices

of children especially the most marginalized ones (including

CwD) in a voluntary, safe and inclusive manner, built

Advocacy monitoring tool (AMT)

End line evaluation report

Media and awareness raising events and materials

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Palestine: CRG Outcomes - Strengthened functioning child rights-based national service delivery, reporting and complaints systems to

fulfil commitments towards child rights


systems, processes and

structures to fulfil commitments

towards child rights influenced

by increased national

awareness, CSOs and child

groups

capacities, used ICHR child rights surveillance and

complaints report, PCBS reports and child –led reports,

gender-sensitive, reflecting CRC principles of child

safeguarding, accountability, best interest of the child and

non-discrimination.

Number of child rights-based policy and legislative changes,

best practices and structures endorsed to institutionalize

child rights and incorporate CRC within national

legislations and policies, improve child participation,

inclusion, transparent budget allocations for children

including CwD and child rights monitoring and reporting-

based on the above reports’ recommendations and

concluding remarks

Improved child rights services and protective measures for

marginalized children including CwD

Number of recommendations by CSOs child rights

coalitions are adopted by the government to induce policy

and legislative changes to implement child rights, increase

child participation, inclusion and increase resource

allocation to children.

# and quality of national media and awareness building

events and materials organized by CSOs to promote

children’s rights and influence decision making in terms of

improving child participation, access to information,

inclusion, resource allocation, protective measures

especially for the most marginalized children including

CwD.

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Palestine: CRG Intermediate Outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening to monitor child rights and guarantee social and government

accountability


1.1. National stakeholders capacity strengthened

to monitor, analyse, document, report, be

involved in decision making processes and

forums, policy and legislative reviews to fulfil

commitments towards child rights and hold the

government accountable

Quality and timely child informed reports (CRC,

CRPD, OPAC, UPR) that used participatory

approaches including children in a voluntary, safe

and inclusive manner, that identified gaps, gender-

sensitive, and included recommendations to

implement child rights, increase child

participation, inclusion, resourcing and improve

CR monitoring and reporting

Child board at SC exists that is diverse,

representative, meets regularly and has impact on

decision making

SC partner organisations have child boards that

are representative, diverse, meet regularly and

demonstrate influence

# of child-led initiatives endorsed by the

government, local councils, municipalities,

governorates, schools,

# of meetings held by ministries, municipalities

and local councils at targeted communities where

children have participated in decision making

# of CSOs actively involved in the CR networks,

lobbying and reporting committees to enforce

implementation of child rights and enhance

actions to support and hold the government

accountable for follow up and implementation of

CR

Availability of supplementary reports

Supplementary reports and recommendations on

policies

Document and system recommendations adopted

by the duty bearer for implementation

End line Evaluation Report

Child-led initiatives endorsed by the government.

Copies of minutes of meetings with ministries,

local councils, municipalities and communities that

document child participation in national/regional

consultation

Annual reports by CSOs with links to national

advocacy materials and events

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Palestine: CRG Intermediate Outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children


1.1.1 Increased child monitoring

groups capacity (skills,

knowledge, geographic

expansion, heterogeneity) to

document and report on child

rights and child rights violations,

and feed into the national

reporting systems and

frameworks

Increased # of new child groups and children (F/M) that

demonstrate capacity to properly monitor, document and

report on child rights violations and advocate for their

rights at the national level

Increased # of CwD and marginalized children included

and participating actively in monitoring and reporting

Program reports – baseline and post assessment data on

number of child-led groups

Child-led reports and case studies

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Palestine Component 2: Child Protection

Objective: MoSA-led child protection system is strengthened to prevent and respond to violence (physical, sexual and corporal

punishment/humiliating behaviours) against children by empowering CSOs, caregivers and children to support elimination of violence.

► Protection of Children from Violence

► Child Protection Systems

Palestine: CP Outcomes - Changes in legislation, policies and practices


1.1 MoSA-led child protection

system extends services to

marginalized communities and is

equitable and comprehensively

addresses protection needs

against violence for marginalized

children and communities,

especially targeting CwD

Increased number of SC targeted communities have

available standard referral mechanisms between

community (civil society actors) and child protection duty

bearers

% increase on number of children accessing child

protection services annually (nationally)

Program reports

Baseline and annual review of CP services

1.2 Increased responsiveness

and willingness of duty-bearers

to enforce provisions of laws in

relation to corporal punishment

/physical and sexual abuse and

Child Protection

# of Child Protection policies developed and presented to

protect children from violence (especially PHP prevention)

to the government for adoption by concerned parties that

have included children’s voices, suggestions and

recommendations

PHP policy documents

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Palestine: CP Intermediate Outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening


1.1.1 Enhanced capacities

(quality of service and influence

to government) of CSOs and

protection providers to reach

marginalized children and

regions with special targeting of

CwD to eliminate violence

# and types of specialized protection services provided by

CSOs to communities in need

# of CSOs initiating/supporting legal or policy reforms to

ban physical and humiliating punishment in all settings

# of CSO-led advocacy initiatives conducted to support

quality services and policy reform on PHP

Assessment of types of services available and frequency

(pre and post)

Reports and news coverage of advocacy measures

1.2.1 Application of endorsed

protocols, guidelines and

procedures for working with

marginalized children and

communities are available and

support an end to violence

against children

# of protocols, guidelines and procedures developed to

support CSO and government practices to eliminate

violence against children

% of service providers (CSO and government) using

protocols, guidelines and procedures for addressing

violence meet quality standards for service providers

Pre and post analysis of existing protocols, guidelines and

procedures

SCI global indicator

Palestine: CP Intermediate Outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children


1.1.1 Parents and teachers are

equipped with the skills and

techniques to practice PD, and

with knowledge to eliminate

VAC, and demonstrate changes

in behaviours and attitudes that

favour protection of children

from violence

% of children (F/M) who report improved relationships

with their parents or caregivers/teachers

% of targeted parents, caregivers and teachers (F/M) who

demonstrate a significant increase in practicing positive

discipline

% of targeted children (F/M) report an increased sense of

safety and protection from gender-based and sexual

violence

Program reports

Pre and post questionnaires

FGD

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Palestine: CP Intermediate Outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children


1.2.1 Increased awareness

among targeted communities

on positive discipline and

elimination of violence against

children

# of communities where CPCs are formed and promoting

the culture of ZERO tolerance of violence against children

# of information points available and accessible in the oPt

# of child-led advocacy initiatives conducted to support

quality services and policy reform on PHP

Program reports and minutes of meetings of CPCs

Program report and tracking number of children accessing

the information point

Reports and news coverage of advocacy activities

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Rwanda Country Program

Component 1: Child Rights Governance

Objective: The Government of Rwanda is accountable to fulfil children’s rights in Rwanda.

► Monitoring & demanding child rights with Children

► Good governance delivering children’s rights

► Public Investment in Children

Rwanda: CRG outcomes - Changes in legislation, policies and practices


1.1 The Government of

Rwanda meets international and

regional child rights obligations

Number of policy, budgetary or administrative changes to

realize children’s rights

Number and % of issues highlighted in monitoring reports

by civil society and children on State progress towards the

implementation of child rights, addressed by the

Government of Rwanda

% of children who believe that their civil rights and

freedoms have improved (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Government submits State Party Reports to UNCRC,

UPR and ACRWC

% of supported children who believe decision-making on

children’s rights is responsive and inclusive

(Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Level of access to duty bearers for advocacy on

implementation of treaty bodies recommendations

Description of policy, budgetary or administrative change

–

Advocacy Plan; Surveys or reports produced

Children perception surveys report

State Reports to the relevant Treaty Bodies

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Rwanda: CRG outcomes - Changes in legislation, policies and practices


1.2 Government of Rwanda

strengthens Child rights

institutions and puts in place

systems to fulfil children’s rights

Commitments to establishment and/or strengthening of

independent national child rights institutions

% budget share allocation to the NCC and CR

observatory

Requirement of Child rights impact assessment is reflected

in Policy /law regulating business in Rwanda

Commitments to establishment and/or strengthening of

child rights impact assessment processes and tools

GMI maturity matrix

Project reports

KAPs survey

Description of policy, budgetary or administrative change

Project reports

Child participation index

1.3 Public budgets are more

child-sensitive and equitable for

all children in Rwanda

Number of times duty-bearers integrate international and

regional CRG commitments into national polices, budgets

and administrative procedures such as UNCRC General

Comment on Public Budgets to Realize the Rights of the

Child, UN Human Rights Council resolution on Towards

Better Investment in the Rights of the Child, SGDs 16

% increase on budget allocation and expenditure on Child

Protection, health and education

MINECOFIN’s annual report

Joint Sector review reports

Annual budget law

National Mid Term Expenditure Framework documents

Audits reports

Rwanda: CRG Intermediate outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening


1.1.1 Civil Society actors are

strengthened in monitoring and

demanding child rights using

international child

accountability mechanisms.

Level of participation of child rights coalitions and CSOs in

the submission of supplementary human rights reports

Number of supplementary reports produced by Civil

Society Actors together with children such as the report

to the United Nations Child Rights Convention (UN CRC)

Committee, African Committee of Experts on the Rights

CRG participation scale

Document review (alternative reports, project reports,

child rights coalition reports)

Supplementary reports

UNCRC, UPR, ACRWC etc. concluding observations

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These actors include but are

not limited to project partners.

They include a wider range of

CR CSOs in Rwanda.

and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) and for the

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) with support of Save the

Children.

At least 75% of UNCRC recommendations, 50% of child

rights related to UPR recommendations and 50% of

ACRWC or other human rights reporting and

accountability mechanisms’ recommendations are based on

issues highlighted in the supplementary reports produced

with support of SC

Number of advocacy activities initiated and implemented

by Child Rights CSOs based on UNCRC concluding

observation, UPR and ACRWC Committee

recommendations.

Advocacy plan

1.1.2 CSOs child rights

coalition is strengthened to lead

on child rights related advocacy

Number of capacity building sessions organized for CSOs

on child rights related advocacy

Number of supported CSO members of the child rights

coalitions monitoring the implementation of

recommendations from UNCRC, UPR, and ACRWC.

Number of child rights advocacy activities initiated and

implemented by the coalition

Activity report

Child rights coalition advocacy plan

Records of meetings

Project report

1.2.1 Civil society actors

strengthened to advocate to

the NCC and Child Rights

Observatory to fulfil their

mandate

CSOs trained on CRC General Measures of

Implementation (GMIs)

Joint interventions conducted by the CR observatory ,

NCC and the CSOs CR coalition

# of NCC and Child rights observatory staff trained in

child rights


Project report

Reports of the NHRC, NCC and that of the CSOs CR

coalition

National budget law

Budget analysis report

Report of the NHRC and NCC

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1.2.2 Civil society actors are

strengthened to advocate for

the ratification of the 3rd

Optional Protocol to the

Convention on the Rights of

the Child on a communications

procedure

Number of civil society actors trained on the OP 3

Number of advocacy activities initiated by the Civil Society

towards the ratification of the OP 3

Activity report

Advocacy plan and report

CRC Committee report

1.2.3 Increased knowledge and

skills of civil society actors to

advocate for policy framework

preventing businesses from

violating children’s rights.

Number of civil society actors trained on the child rights

and business principles.

Number of advocacy activities initiated by civil society

actors for the government to make the child rights impact

assessment a requirement for private and public

businesses.

% increase in knowledge and skills of civil society actors in

advocating for policy framework to prevent violating child

rights

Project report


Project report

KAP

Policy /law regulating business in Rwanda


promote alternative approaches

to budget formulation in child

protection, health and

education that are more child-

sensitive and equitable.

Budget and policy analysis produced by CSOs with support

of Save the Children

Number of budget related advocacy activities initiated by

CSOs

% budget share allocated to CP, health and education

Number of policy, budgetary or administrative changes to

realise children’s rights

Analysis report


Annual budget law

1.3.2 Enhanced knowledge and

skills of civil society actors to

monitor, analyse and feedback

to GoR on public spending

Number of Civil society actors trained on monitoring

public spending (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Number of budget spending reports produced by Civil

Society actors

CSOs reports

KAP survey report

Government report

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using social accountability

mechanisms.

Number of actions taken by the government-based on the

CSOs public spending reports

Level of knowledge and skills acquired

% of local/district government institutions making

information available to children and citizens in accessible

forms

Rwanda: CRG intermediate outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children


1.1.3 Children, including the

most marginalised, have

increased skills and confidence

to advocate for their rights at

both local and national level.

Level of participation of children and child-led structures

with duty-bearers on child rights issues (Disaggregation:

Male vs. Female)

Number and description of formal spaces and mechanisms

established for engagement and dialogue with children, civil

society and government officials

Number of advocacy activities initiated by children based

on the findings of the state of child rights report.

Number of children and child --led groups involved in the

preparation and dissemination of child rights reports (e.g.

The State of Child Rights report)

Views of children including the most marginalize reflected

in the state of children’s rights report


Qualitative study report

Project reports


Activity report

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1.1.4 Influential and public

figures in Rwanda are

empowered to be child rights

champions.

Number of child rights functions organised together with

champions to empower public figures

Level of awareness and interest of duty-bearers on child

rights-based on recommendations from UNCRC, UPR,

ACRWC etc. concluding observations and findings of child

rights situation analysis

Level of follow ups by duty-bearers on child rights issues

based on recommendations from UNCRC, UPR, ACRWC

etc. concluding observations and findings of child rights

situation analysis

Child rights champions (Parliamentarians , first lady’s

office, media practitioners, etc.) publicly express their

concern about child rights issues raised in the state of child

rights report and treaty body recommendations/

concluding observations

Project Reports



Project Reports

Government reports

Media Monitoring Report

1.2.4 Enhanced awareness and

motivation of Child Rights

Champions (Rwandan

Governance Board, Minister of

Justice, and National Human

Rights Commission) to

advocate for stronger child

rights institutions.

Number of Child rights champions publicly call for an

increased capacity for child rights institutions (CR

observatory and NCC). (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female).

Number Child rights champions publicly expressing their

concern about the impact of business on child rights and

calling for a requirement of child rights impact assessment.


Qualitative Study Report

Project report

Government reports

Media Monitoring Report

1.2.5 Enhanced knowledge and

skills for children’s groups and

committees to advocate for the

ratification of the 3rd Optional

Protocol to the Convention on

Number of children trained on the OP 3 (Disaggregation:

Male vs. Female)

Number of advocacy activities initiated by children

towards the ratification of the OP 3

Project report


Government reports

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the Rights of the Child on a

communications procedure.

1.2.6 Children’s groups and

committees are empowered to

monitor and report on child

rights violations.

# of child rights violations reported by children and dealt

with by the competent authorities

# of children trained on child rights monitoring and

reporting (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Child-friendly guidelines on CR monitoring and reporting

are produced

Number of commitments by relevant authorities on issues

related to children’s civil rights and freedoms raised by

children, child participation structures, CSOs etc.

National Human Rights Reports

Police reports

project report

Guidelines document

Children’s Reports


committees have increased

knowledge, skills and

confidence to hold the

government accountable

through monitoring public

expenditures

Number of children trained on public expenditures

monitoring through social accountability (Disaggregation:

Male vs. Female)

Advocacy activities (including interface meetings) initiated

by children based on the findings of the expenditures

monitoring

Number of children’s groups and committees consulted in

budget preparations and the level of participation


Number and description of issues on children’s civil rights

and freedoms raised by children, child participation

structures to relevant authorities

Number and/or % of supported children, child

participation structures, child rights coalitions aware of

their rights to demand quality public services and to hold

duty-bearers or service providers to account.


Consultation report



Budget priority document

Project report

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Views of children’s groups and committees considered in

setting public budget priorities at local and national level

1.3.4 Awareness and motivation

of Child rights champions

(RENCP, CPWG, WB rep,

DIFD rep, UN rep, etc.) are

enhanced to advocate for an

equitable public budgeting for

education, child protection and

health

Number of child rights champions expressing their

concern about the equitable funding in their meetings with

the government(Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Number of child rights champions pushing the government

to adopt an equitable model of public investment in

children (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Activity report

Government reports

Copy of Media print

Newspaper articles

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Rwanda Component 2: Child Protection

Objective: Child protection systems are strengthened to prevent and respond to violence against children.

► Protection of children from violence (physical and humiliating punishment)

► Child protection systems strengthening

Rwanda: CP Outcomes - Changes in legislation, policies and practices


2.1 Strengthened legal

framework protects children

from physical and humiliating

punishment in all settings

Legal framework protecting children from physical and

humiliating punishment revised

Child protection related legal and policy documents

2.2 Community-based child

protection structures are

strengthened and prevent

violence against children

Number of children placed in foster families followed up by

the IZU

% of reduction of violence against Children rate

% of reduction of unnecessary family separation


Project report

2.3 Parents, teachers and

caregivers use positive

discipline parenting practices

% of children who experience any form of physical and

humiliating punishment in all settings


Project report

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Rwanda: CP intermediate outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening


2.1.1 Government of Rwanda

revises relevant legislation to

protect children from physical

and humiliating punishment in

all settings

Legal framework protecting children from physical and

humiliating punishment revised

Guidelines on integration of positive discipline into national

policies and administrative procedures are established by

duty bearers

Positive discipline is included in national training curriculum

for social workforce and community-based child protection

actors

Government rolls out positive discipline training

Training curriculum

Government plan document

Project report

2.1.2 Strengthened knowledge

and skills of CSOs to advocate

for prohibition of Physical and

Humiliating punishment.

Removal of the physical and humiliating punishment related

articles in draft laws due to CSOs advocacy

Government commitments to prohibit PHP in all settings

due to the influence of the CSOs

Policy papers/ briefs are developed by CSOs on prohibition

of PHP

Project report

Policy paper/ briefs

2.2.1 Community-based groups

(CSOs, IZUs, churches, etc.) no

longer accept social norms and

attitudes that justify violence

against children

Number of community-based groups members trained on

holistic child protection against violence

Measures adopted by ccommunity-based groups (CSOs,

IZUs, churches, etc.) to support no violence against

children

Level of changes in knowledge, attitude and practices of

community-based groups members about protection of

children from violence

Project report

Project report

KAP survey report


support and lead campaigns on

prevention of violence against

children

Number and level of participation of civil society actors

engaged in prevention and response of violence against

children

Project report


Government reports

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Rwanda: CP intermediate outcomes - Civil Society Strengthening


Number of social media and physical campaign on

prevention of violence against children supported or

initiated by civil society actors

Media monitoring report

2.2.3 Inshuti Z’Umuryango

(Friends of family) are

strengthened to prevent and

respond to violence against

children.

Number of Friends of family ‘IZU’ trained on holistic child

care and protection

Number of Friends of family ‘IZU’ provided with necessary

toolkit to facilitate their work

Friends of family ‘IZU’ supported to respond, prevent and

report violence against children

Project report

Report of the NCC

IZU quarterly report

NCC case management report

2.3.1 CSOs have the skills and

knowledge to train and mentor

parents and caregivers on the

positive discipline.

# of CSOs PD facilitators trained (Disaggregation: Male vs.

Female)

# of parents and caregivers trained and mentored


Project report

2.3.2 Parents and caregivers

have improved knowledge, skills

and attitudes towards practice

positive disciple at homes,

alternative care and community.

# of Parents and caregivers who testify that they use PD


# of children reporting that their parents /caregivers use

PD (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)


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Rwanda: CP intermediate outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children


2.1.3 Religious, local and

opinion leaders demonstrate a

higher acceptance and

knowledge of non-violent child

upbringing practices.

% of religious, local and opinion leaders who are able to

state at least three negative effects of physical and

humiliating punishment.(Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

# of Religious leaders, local leaders and opinion leaders

who speak to their constituency promoting the use of

positive discipline(Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Level of awareness and interest of duty-bearers, religious

leaders, local leaders and opinion leaders on prohibition of

PHP in all settings

Project report


KAP survey report


committees engage with

decision makers at local and

national levels to advocate for

the prohibition of PHP in all

settings

Number and level of participation of children and child

participation structures who advocate against Physical and

humiliating punishment (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Number and description of formal spaces and mechanisms

established for engagement and dialogue with children and

civil society

Number of advocacy activities initiated by children towards

the prohibition of PHP in all settings

Project reports


2.1.5 Child rights champions

(church leaders,

parliamentarians, influential

parent-leaders, NCC, etc.)

advocate for the eradication

and prevention of violence

against children, including PHP

Number of targeted influential people aware of negative

effects of PHP

Number of child rights champions publicly expressing their

concern about the PHP in their meetings with the

government (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Number of child rights champions asking for a holistic

protection of children against violence including PHP.



Project report

Government reports

Media monitoring report

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Rwanda: CP intermediate outcomes - Empowerment of individuals and children


2.2.4 Children groups and

Committees actively advocate

for change in public attitudes

towards violence against

children

Number and % of children and child participation structures

empowered to raise child protection issues with relevant

authorities. (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)


participation structures in advocacy on change in public

attitudes towards violence against children (Disaggregation:

Male vs. Female)

Number and description of spaces and mechanisms

established for engagement and dialogue with children

Project report



2.2.5 Views of children including

marginalized children are

considered in strengthening

community-based child

protection mechanisms

Views of children are referenced in design and roll out of

the community-based child protection mechanisms

strengthening process (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)


participation structures in design and roll out of the

community-based child protection mechanisms

strengthening process (Disaggregation: Male vs. Female)

Consultation report

Project report

2.3.3 Children groups and

Committees are active and

advocating for the use of

positive discipline

# of Sensation sessions organised by Children’s groups and

committees

Project report

3.3.4 Positive discipline

champions including influential

parents and parent-leaders

promote the use of positive

discipline at community and

national level

# of influential parents and parent-leaders sensitized on PD

Number of initiatives taken by the sensitized influential

parents and parent-leaders to promote PD

Project report

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Annex 4

Summarized risk table

Risk Mitigation Actions

Low thematic and operational

capacity (regional programs in

Africa and LAC and varying

capacity in different country

programs and at partner level).

SC Int’l: to assess all partners at the initial stage of the

project. Development of capacity building activities and

OCD-plans with partners.

SC Sweden: Area Directors to closely monitor and follow

the merger of the East Africa regional program and South

Africa regional program as well as the newly restructured

Latin America regional program’s operational capacity and

performance.

Thematic Advisors placed in the regions to systematically

monitor program quality and provide capacity building to

partners’ and SC International’s staff. SC Sweden’s annual

regional and context analysis as well as progress analysis in

relation to thematic objectives will guide strategic decisions

on resource allocation and capacity building.

Non-compliance with donor

requirements and agreement

(all programs)

See Annex 5 Compliance Monitoring plan for a detailed

description of the agreement specific compliance risk and

actions that will be taken by SC Sweden to mitigate and

manage as a complement to SC International’s own internal

control mechanism.

Restrictive laws and

bureaucratic

procedures hindering partners

work (e.g. Pakistan,

Ethiopia, Philippines, Sudan and

Yemen).

SC Int’l: To facilitate engagement forums and dialogue

between government representatives, regional and national

authorities, SC Int’l and partners. Promotion of

transparency and information sharing between different

actors for increased cooperation, strengthened trustful

relationships and an enabling space. To provide guidance

and capacity building to partner on bureaucratic practice

and procedures and ensure compliance with national and

local policies and legislation.

Global advocacy lead by SC International’s advocacy offices

to reinforce international norms in support of an enabling

civil society environment.

SC Sweden: Information sharing, engagement and

coordination between SC Members and donors as well as

dialogue with the diplomatic community to stimulate a

response if required and considered appropriate on a case

by case basis.

Natural disaster, volatile

political situations incl. conflicts

(e.g. Bangladesh, Myanmar,

Philippines, EUR reg, oPt,

Yemen, Sudan and ME Reg.)

SC Int’l: Updated risk analyses, security assessments and

plans. DRR and preparedness messages

mainstreamed/integrated into CRG and CP program

components and activities. Conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm

approaches applied in program planning to avoid further

conflicts and tensions hindering program implementation

and strengthen local capacities for peace and dialogue.

SC Sweden: capacity building of partners’ and SC

International’s staff in countries at risk and upon identified

need (Yemen, Sudan, oPt, EUR Program etc.) on case

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Risk Mitigation Actions

management, promotion of resilient child protection

systems and child protection and CRG programming in

emergency situations. Thematic Advisors placed in the

regions to closely monitor program quality and contextual

changes.

Extreme exchange rate

fluctuations (all programs)

SC Int’l and SC Sweden: to investigate and discuss

alternative ways of risk sharing and protecting partner from

the full effects of currency exchange depreciations.

Lack of future investment and

engagement from other SC

Members in Sudan due to high

risk climate and repressive

CSO-environment implying too

high cost burden on SC Sweden

in relation to the operational

costs.

SC Sweden and SC Int’l: A complete review of Sudan

country office’s operational platform have been made to

ensure coherency with SCI’s global policies and systems. A

new operating model for Sudan is in place since March 2016

which brings the Sudan country office in line with all other

country offices under SCI management.

SC Sweden: Dialogue with SCI and SC US and mobilisation

of other members to facilitate further investment to the

Sudan program.

Child Safeguarding regulations

are not known nor followed up

on at partner level.

SC Int’l: ongoing awareness raising and promotion of

importance of child safeguarding, including internalising of

policies and practices. Training of investigation officers in

members and country offices.

SC Sweden: See Annex 5 Compliance Monitoring Plan.

Risk of fraud and corruption on

partner level.

SC Int’l: Refreshed fraud policy rolled out across the global

organisation. Head of Fraud Management (HoFM) in place

providing expert advice and guidance for internal

investigations. HoFM pro-actively working with Country

Directors & Regional Directors to increase fraud awareness

for all staff. Fraud awareness training mandatory for all staff.

SC Sweden: See Annex 5: Compliance Monitoring Plan.

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Annex 5

Compliance Monitoring Plan

The international work of Save the Children Sweden is mainly carried out through

Save the Children’s country and regional programs. The country and regional

programs commitments regarding the implementation of SC Sweden funded

programs are stipulated in agreements between the parties on different levels.

As a means to further systematize SC Sweden’s monitoring and follow up of the

quality implementation in terms of donor requirements and operations quality, and

to complement SC International’s own internal control mechanisms, a Compliance

Monitoring Plan has been developed. The plan identifies the specific compliance

risks associated with the Sida CSO Agreement and the compliance monitoring

mechanism used by SC Sweden for early identification and mitigation of these risks.

The Award Management Section at SC Sweden will bear the main responsibility for

the plan and the development of standardized routines and the Award Managers will

Master Programming Agreement MPA • Regulates all SC Int’l implementation of programs funded by SC

Sweden

• Sets the terms and details roles and responsibilities

Fund Summary FS • Stipulates award specific conditions and requirements

• Is integrated in and generated by AMS (Award Management

System)

• Contains all annexes (donor agreement, proposals, budgets,

audit instructions etc.)

FS is approved and

activated in AMS.

SC Int’l can start to carry

out the project, sign sub-

awards and disburse funds

to local partners.

Sub-Award Agreements – SC Int’l Standard template

Includes Annex D, the summary of Sida’s Requirements

1

2

3

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play an essential role in its implementation. Based on the lessons learnt from the

previous period and recommendations raised by internal and external auditors, the

plan will focus mainly on audit requirements and partner management which have

turned out being the most critical risks. During the first year, SC Sweden will focus

on monitoring partner assessments and the sub-grant agreements which SC Int’l sign

with local partner organisations. Additionally, SC Sweden will follow up on and

review the quality of the partner audits as well as SC International’s follow up of

recommendations raised in management letters and the management responses and

plans developed by partners by doing sample tests in each country involved in the

CSO Program.

SC Sweden’s compliance goal is: Donor requirements are forwarded and

understood, weaknesses in operations quality and compliance are detected and

corrected and the number of findings and recommendations raised by external

auditors are reduced.

Below follows the detailed Compliance Monitoring Plan:

Risk

Compliance

monitoring

mechanism When

Responsible

function at SC

Sweden

SC Sweden’s donor

requirements and

audit instructions

are misinterpreted

A standard Power Point

on donor requirements

are updated, available and

used by SC Sweden’s staff

in dialogue with SC Int’l

and partners.

First year, 1st

quarter

Sida Key Account

Manager

SC Sweden participates

actively in kick-off

meetings with SC Int’l and

partner. Donor

requirements are

discussed and reviewed

during these meetings.

Kick off meeting

with SC Int’l and

partner

organisations, first

year, 1st quarter

Award Manager

SC Sweden revisits audit

instructions and donor

requirements during the

implementation period

with SC Int’l CO and

partners (to be included in

ToR for field visits).

Monitoring (skype,

email): on-going

Field visits:1–2

/year

/country

Award Manager

Donor

requirements are

not forwarded to

partners.

Annex D is updated and

forwarded to SC Int’l.

First year, 1st

quarter

Sida Key Account

Manager and

Award Manager

A checklist for review of

partner agreements has

been developed.

First year, 2nd

quarter

Head of Awards

Sections

Partner Agreements are

reviewed by SC Sweden

to make sure that donor

requirements and audit

Sample test, 1–2

agreements/country

Award Manager

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Risk

Compliance

monitoring

mechanism When

Responsible

function at SC

Sweden

instructions, Annex D, are

reflected in SC Int’l

partner agreements.

- First year, 2nd

quarter

Partner assessments

are not conducted

by SC Int’l.

Review Partner

Assessments.

Sample test, 1–2

agreements/

country: first year,

2nd quarter

Award Manager

Partner audits have

not been completed

and there are gaps

and weaknesses in

terms of audit

reporting from local

partners.

Review partner audits. Sample tests, 1–

2/country, 2nd

quarter, 2nd–5th

year

Award Manager

SC Int’l to provide a

partner audit schedule to

SC Sweden for review,

listing all the partner

audits conducted related

to SC Sweden’s grants and

any weaknesses and gaps

as identified by SC Int’l.

Twice/year Internal Audit

Internal control

deficiencies on

partner level are not

detected and

monitored by SC

Int’l.

Follow up on internal

control deficiencies in

audit management letters

from partner

organisations and dialogue

around these with SC Int’l

CO.

Sample test: 1–

2/CO Management

letters: 2nd

quarter, 2nd–5th

year

Award Manager

Child Safeguarding

regulations are not

known nor followed

up on at partner

level.

Include CSG in ToR for

field visits.

First year, 1st

quarter

Award Manager

Review partner

agreements and ensure

they include the obligation

to implement a Child

Safeguarding Policy.

Sample test of

partner

agreements: first

year, 2nd quarter

Award Manager

SC Int’l over- and/or

underspending in

general and non-

compliance with

partner %

requirements in

particular.

Review of Standard

Donor Reports (SDR)

submitted by SC Int’l.

Every month Award Manager

Budget vs Actual check of

the total program

including match.

Every Month Controller/Award

Managers/Section

Heads

Yearly Forecast. Twice/year Controller/Award

Managers

Q1, 2, 3 and 4. Four times/year Area Directors /

Section Heads/

Award Managers

Review of the Annual

Financial Reports as well

as updated budgets for the

forthcoming year

submitted by SC Int’l.

1st quarter /year Award Managers

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Risk

Compliance

monitoring

mechanism When

Responsible

function at SC

Sweden

Risk of fraud and

corruption on

partner level.

Add questions in ToR and

checklists for monitoring

visits.

Field visits: 1–

2/year/country

Award Managers

Capacity building of SC

Int’l personnel in the field.

On-going SC Int’l Anti-Fraud

Unit

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Annex 6

Budget Sida CSO 2017–2021

Summary 2017–2021

Sida CSO 2017–2021 Partner

(TSEK)

SCI

(TSEK)

SCS

(TSEK)

MATCH

(TSEK)

SC Country and Regional

Africa 225 249 84 352 78 500

Asia 132 600 62 400 25 000

Latin America (LAC) 51 850 24 400 22 000

Middle East and Europe (MEE) 93 477 44 854 10 000

Global

CRGGT 1 600

CPGT 3 400

SCI Centre and regional offices 24 299 3 413

Stronger Members 21 500 3 387

Child Rights & Business 6 120 2 880

Local to Global 10 200 9 800

SC Sweden Program Support

International TAs 33 893

Thematic development and Support 47 310 5 000

MEAL and Compliance 39 830 2 700

Administration 8% 80 001

Sub total 540 996 257 986 201 034

Total Budget 1 000 016 150 000

% of total budget 54% 26% 20% 15%

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Detailed Budget 2017–2021

TSEK 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total 5 years

Classification Budget line Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Africa 62 460 15 700 66 588 15 700 62 909 15 700 60 233 15 700 57 411 15 700 309 601 78 500

Regional Off ESARO

Reg 11 600 5 000 11 600 5 000 11 600 5 000 11 600 5 000 11 600 5 000 58 000 25 000

Country Off Ethiopia 3 132 3 012 2 890 2 922 3 044 15 000

Country Off Rwanda 3 376 1 500 4 772 1 500 4 565 1 500 4 604 1 500 4 182 1 500 21 500 7 500

Country Off Sudan 5 429 5 701 5 986 6 285 6 599 30 000

Member SC

South Africa 9 132 10 437 9 156 8 471 8 803 46 000

Country Off Zambia 5 846 1 500 7 804 1 500 8 595 1 500 9 132 1 500 9 123 1 500 40 500 7 500

Country Off SEN WCA Reg 8 132 3 850 10 360 3 850 7 798 3 850 7 013 3 850 6 466 3 850 39 768 19 250

Country Off Senegal 8 013 3 850 5 602 3 850 5 020 3 850 3 605 3 850 2 494 3 850 24 733 19 250

Country Off Cote d'Ivoire 7 800 7 300 7 300 6 600 5 100 34 100

Asia 37 913 5 000 37 964 5 000 40 257 5 000 39 091 5 000 39 775 5 000 195 000 25 000

Country Off PHL South East Asia

Reg 4 796 3 851 3 847 3 636 3 869 20 000

Country Off Philippines 9 142 2 500 10 164 2 500 10 483 2 500 10 314 2 500 10 396 2 500 50 500 12 500

Member (SCUS) Pakistan 8 600 2 500 7 430 2 500 9 147 2 500 8 018 2 500 8 305 2 500 41 500 12 500

Country Off Bangladesh 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 20 000

Country Off Myanmar 3 375 4 518 4 780 5 123 5 205 23 000

Country Off Vietnam 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 20 000

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TSEK 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total 5 years


CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Country Off

THA

South Asia

Reg 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 20 000

Latin America & the Caribbean 15 750 4 400 15 750 4 400 15 750 4 400 14 500 4 400 14 500 4 400 76 250 22 000

Regional Off LAC Reg 15 750 4 400 15 750 4 400 15 750 4 400 14 500 4 400 14 500 4 400 76 250 22 000

Middle East and Europe 25 420 2 000 27 844 2 000 28 142 2 000 28 253 2 000 28 673 2 000 138 332 10 000

Country Off LBN ME Reg 1 888 1 875 1 888 1 848 2 028 9 527

Country Off Yemen 5 200 7 350 7 350 7 350 7 350 34 600

Country Off OPT 6 600 2 000 6 600 2 000 6 600 2 000 6 600 2 000 6 600 2 000 33 000 10 000

Country Off KOS EUR Reg 4 423 4 560 4 693 4 693 4 836 23 205

Country Off Kosovo 7 309 7 460 7 611 7 762 7 858 38 000

Global 14 084 1 354 14 264 1 358 14 271 1 363 18 625 1 363 18 555 1 363 79 799 6 800

Global Theme CRGGT 320 320 320 320 320 1 600

Global Theme CPGT 680 680 680 680 680 3 400

SCI Centre and

Reg Offices

SCI Centre and

Reg Offices 4 784 682 4 964 683 4 971 683 4 825 683 4 755 683 24 299 3 413

Country Offs Stronger

Members 4 300 672 4 300 675 4 300 680 4 300 680 4 300 680 21 500 3 387

Country Off /

Regional Off

Child Rights &

Business 4 500 4 500 9 000

Advocacy Offs Local to Global 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 20 000

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TSEK 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total 5 years


CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

Sida

CSO Match

SCS Program Support 24 441 1 540 24 528 1 540 24 188 1 540 23 688 1 540 24 188 1 540 121 033 7 700

SCS Head Off Int’l TAs 7 299 6 986 6 536 6 536 6 536 33 893

SCS Head Off

Thematic

development and

Support

9 696 1 000 9 696 1 000 9 306 1 000 9 306 1 000 9 306 1 000 47 310 5 000

SCS Head Off MEAL and

Compliance 7 446 540 7 846 540 8 346 540 7 846 540 8 346 540 39 830 2 700

Total excluding Admin 180 069 29 994 186 938 29 998 185 517 30 003 184 390 30 003 183 101 30 003 920 015 150 000

SCS Head Off Administration 8% 15 658 16 255 16 132 16 034 15 922 80 001

Total including Admin 195 727 29 994 203 194 29 998 201 649 30 003 200 424 30 003 199 023 30 003 1 000 016 150 000

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Save the Children Sweden Breakdown

Total 5

years

TSEK

% of

direct

support

to

partners

Budget

supporting

partners Details Salary Travel Others Justification

SCS TOTAL 208 735 33 061,75 104 598 12 435 11 700

Africa

International

Thematic

Support

18 750

50 7 350

3 FTE Africa

Thematic

Advisors

13 200 1 500

Follow up on program quality of Sida funded projects in the

region, with specific focus on strengthening local partners and

contribute to the establishment of robust and viable Child Right

and Convention (CRC) support, develop synergy effects

between programs of local partners and ensure a rights-based

approach and integrated programs

50 2 025

0,75 FTE Africa

Thematic Advisor

(CRB)

3 675 375

Same as Africa TA, but with strong focus to support SC

colleagues and local partners in developing programs and

activities for advocacy and accountability on Child Rights and

Business

Asia

International

Thematic

Support

7 000 75 5 250

1,5 FTE Asia

Thematic

Advisors

6 000 1 000 Same as for Africa TA

Latin America &

the Caribbean

International

Thematic

Support

3 900 50 1 950 1 FTE LAC

Thematic Advisor 3 400 500 Same as for Africa TA

Middle East and

Europe

International

Thematic

Support

4 243

50 1 965 0,7 FTE MEE

Thematic Advisor 3 430 500 Same as for Africa TA.

75 235

1 FTE MEE

Thematic Advisor

(5 months)

283 30 Same as for Africa TA. 5 months in 2017. Special focus on

Yemen and CRG

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Total 5

years

TSEK

% of

direct

support

to

partners

Budget

supporting


SCS Thematic

development

and Support

58 685

0 0

1,2 FTE Head of

Units for

thematic section

5 280 600

Ensure the thematic quality and coherence in the

implementation of Sida supported pograms. Responsible for the

overview and strategic direction of quality partnership and

OCD. Head of Units for the following section: Cross Cutting,

Development and International TAs

0, 25 , 0

and 40% 975

4 FTE Cross

Cutting Thematic

Advisors

13 600 2 000

Follow-up and assure the program quality of the Sida funded

projects with respect to cross-cutting aspects. Such as,

partnership, child participation, gender and non-discrimination

Cross Cutting

Activity 250

Activity budget to develop, monitor, evaluate and consolidate

thought leadership role for partnership within SCI. This includes

program consultants, research and publications

75%,

50%, and

2,5 0%

7 313

4,5 FTE

Development

Thematic Advisor

15 300 2 250

Development of thematic and methodological knowledge,

provide specific thematic guidance to country offices and

responsible to support the development, monitoring and

learning of Sida funded programs. Document and analyse lessons

learnt and contribute to the development of CP and CRG.

Signature

Program 3 250

Activity budget to develop, monitor, evaluate and consolidate

the signature programs in Philippines, Zambia and South Africa.

Knowledge

Investments 5 500

SC Sweden will keep an activity budget for targeted investments

to support country and regional offices to promote innovative

approaches and learning on child rights issues, capture

opportunities (for example, campaigns and training), or fill short

term gaps in human resources or other capacities in the

countries/regions. The budget will be used to quickly respond to

requests by SCI or partners for limited financial contribution for

activities that ensure program quality and thematic development.

0 0

1,5 FTE

Advocacy

Thematic Advisor

4 080 600

Support to Sida funded programs with a specific focus on Local

to Global and children participation in advocacy and advocacy

related to CP.

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Total 5

years

TSEK

% of

direct

support

to

partners

Budget

supporting


SCS Thematic

development

and support

0 0

0,75 FTE

Resource Centre

Manager

2 550 375

Resource Centre

Activity 100

Maintain, improve and develop the resource centre which is an

external full text database containing over 6000 publications

related to child protection, education, child rights governance

and health. The database includes tools, guidelines, manuals,

research, studies and analyses that are amply used by SCS local

partner organisations, INGOs, NGOs and other stakeholders.

Local partner organisations also use the Resource centre to

disseminate their own publications, advertising news and events

and share experiences.

SCS MEAL and

Compliance 37 155

25 4 836 5,3 FTE Award

Managers 18 020 1 325

Monitoring and follow up on operations quality and compliance.

Assist in planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting

processes and act as the main focal point towards SCI country

and regional offices

0 0 1,2 FTE Area

Directors 5 580 600

Manage and monitor the strategic direction of Save the Children

Sweden funded programs in the respective regions. Act as an

entrance point and senior representative of SC Sweden towards

donors, country and regional programs

10 1 163 2,5 FTE Planning

& MEAL 8 500 530 2 600

Planning, evaluation and monitoring of programs, including

budget for regional workshops with SCI and local partners

SCS

Administration 80 001

• Strategic direction - Management.

• Systems. The development and maintenance of systems that

are essential to delivering programs and assuring accountability

for example the finance system and grants management system.

• Support Structures. HR, IT, logistics and finance

Total Budget 208 735 33 062 104 598 12 435 11 700

Save the Children

107 88 Stockholm

Telephone: +46 8-698 90 00

www.raddabarnen.se

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