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DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD 2025

THEME: PLANNING AND BUDGETING FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: PROGRESS

SINCE 2010

CONCEPT NOTE
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1. Introduction

The Day of the African Child (DAC) was launched by the Assembly of Heads of State
of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1991 to be commemorated on 16 June
each year. The DAC pays tribute to the 1976 student uprising in Soweto, South Africa,
which resulted in the killings of students who demonstrated against the poor quality of
education they received and demanding to be taught in their own language by the
apartheid regime. Over the years, the Day has been an opportunity for all stakeholders
and actors involved in the protection and promotion of children's rights in Africa to
come together, to consolidate common goals and to tackle the obstacles that stand in
the way of achieving an Africa fit for its children.

As guardian of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC),
the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
(ACERWC/Committee) has spearheaded the commemoration of the DAC since 2002.
The ACERWC is an Organ of the African Union established in accordance with articles
32 and 33 of the ACRWC mandated to promote and protect the rights and welfare of
the child in Africa and monitor its implementation. Each year, the Committee identifies
a relevant theme for the Day, which is further adopted by the Executive Council of the
AU, organizes and coordinates activities and events to commemorate the Day at
continental level.

The purpose of this concept note is to provide guidance to Member States on the main
objectives of the theme, and the various measures that should be undertaken by
States in the celebration of the theme. The Committee notes that the DAC provides
an opportunity for children, Member States, policy makers, organisations and other
stakeholders on the continent working on children's issues to review and evaluate
efforts, policies and programmes aimed to protect and promote children's rights
considering the theme. The DAC is called for serious introspection and commitment
to addressing the many challenges facing African children.

2. Background and justification of the theme

In 2010, the theme of the DAC was: "Planning and budgeting for children's rights: a
collective responsibility". The commemoration of the DAC on this theme was informed
by the various challenges the Committee observed on budgeting for children’s rights.
The Committee noted that in addition to the lack of resources, the realization of
children’s rights was faced by several factors that hinder the design and
implementation of programs geared towards the protection and promotion of the rights
and welfare of the child. Among these are: failure to take proper account of certain
aspects of child protection in national programs, non- efficient use of resources, lack
of participation of children in planning and budgeting for programs, lack of strategic
information and statistical data and reliable target on the situation of children in some
areas, poor coordination of programs, the lack of reliable financial records. The 2010
DAC aimed at exchange of ideas and experiences, reflection and advocacy in Africa
on planning and budgeting that will promote a better improvement of living conditions
of children in the continent.

The Committee decided that the year 2025 DAC will be commemorated under the
theme "Planning and budgeting for children's rights: progress since 2010". The theme
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is aimed at assessing the level of progress achieved in mainstreaming a children’s
issues in planning and budgeting by Member States of the AU and further encourage
States to assess and reform their mechanisms of budgeting and planning to adopt a
child rights-based approach.

The Committee notes from its engagement with Member States that budget for
children has shown increase in most countries. However, children continue to face
various challenges which call for additional and child sensitive budgeting. Africa still
has high rates of child mortality, child malnutrition, stunting, wasting affecting their
survival and development. Access to immunization has increased, yet there remain to
be underserved areas with millions of children. Poverty remains to be an underlying
factor that affects children and results in the violation of their rights such as child
labour, separation from parents and caregivers, lack of access to basic services such
as education and health. Moreover, the Continent is facing famine, pandemics, armed
conflicts, natural disasters, and other emergencies that disproportionately affect
children. Harmful practices such as child marriage, female genital mutilation as well
as gender-based discrimination are violations of children’s right and often perpetuated
due to poverty. Furthermore, children in vulnerable situations are more exposed to
violence due to lack of sufficient programming for their specific needs such as children
with disabilities, children in street situations, children separated from parents, and
children from marginalised and remote areas.

The Committee notes the significant strides achieved by Member States of the African
Union through legislative and other measures. To date 51 Member States have ratified
the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. However, the
implementation of the Charter is challenged by several factors including weak
institutions and lack of resources. Planning and budgeting for children's rights enables
the needs relating to their fundamental rights to be considered in national processes,
which is key to ensuring implementation of their rights in the Charter. Child sensitive
planning and budgeting is highly impacted by lack of prioritisation of children’s issues
on budget processes. African Countries tend to spend more on other priorities such
as military and peace and security which result in less investment in children. Line
ministries dealing with children’s issues are not politically placed in higher status as
opposed to other ministries which impacts the amount of resource that will be allocated
to their mandate. Ineffective management of national resources due to lack of
sufficient regulatory frameworks and laws and administrative practices also affects
children’s budget. Governments are obliged to ensure that there is an effective
resource mobilisation and allocation through their fiscal and regulatory policies
including tax laws. However, if such laws and policies are not child sensitive, they may
have an adverse effect on children, for instance by increasing the price of goods and
services consumed by children. Moreover, lack of proper regulation results in a loss
of funds and resources through illicit flows or other factors. In addition, corruption
which remains to be prevalent in the Continent affects child’s share of the national
budget. More specifically, lack of accountability in the budget allocated for children
coupled with lack of effective execution of the children’s budget to the right cause
hinders the realisation of child sensitive budgeting and planning. Furthermore, children
are not engaged in plans and budgeting processes concerning them which impacts
the integration of their needs and views in decisions that impact their lives.
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The Committee also notes that the demography of Africa calls for a compelling action
to align planning and budgeting with child rights approach.

In 2021, Africa had 650 million children and in 2023 it was estimated that Africa has
40% under 15 years population which is higher than the global average of 25%. By
2055, Africa will be home to around 1 billion children, or 40 percent of the world's
population. This demographic dynamic of Africa calls for increased investment on
children to build a better future for the continent. The Committee also notes that
Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 cannot be
achieved without sufficient investment on children.

Moreover, Africa’s aspirations towards eradication of poverty, development of human

capital, and economic growth cannot be realised unless investments are directed
towards children. By investing in children today, States build a resilient economy,
increase employment and productivity thereby increasing economic gains for
countries. Moreover, by fighting unemployment and building a healthy and thriving
society, States prevent causes for instability and conflict. Therefore, investing on
children today is the key to achieving a prosperous, stable, and secure Africa.

3. Objectives

The objectives for the 2025 DAC on ‘planning and budgeting for children's rights:
progress since 2010’ include:

- Take stock of the progress made by African States in areas of children’s rights
over the last decade by analyzing the measures undertaken, challenges
encountered, and best practices documenting in budgeting and planning for
children;
- Identify the challenges of children in Africa that are affected by lack of child
sensitive budgeting and planning
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- Encourage Member States to undertake a national assessment of the child-
friendliness of their planning and budgeting processes;
- Encourage Member States to undertake legislative reforms of their budget laws
and policies to incorporate children's rights perspectives;
- Encourage Member States to ensure the participation of children in the
development of national plans and budgets;
- Encourage Member States to increase their budget allocations for children to
ensure better implementation of the Charter;
- Advocate for child sensitive fiscal policies and accountability frameworks on
budgeting and planning;
- Galvanise political efforts to ensure that public policy decisions support and
strengthen children's rights programmes;
- Provide opportunities for exchange, reflection, and advocacy in African
countries on child sensitive planning and budgeting
- Mobilise partnerships among stakeholders to increase investment in children;
- Provide policy guidance and create platforms to share stakeholder capacity and
experience on child-friendly budgeting and planning issues.

4. Planning and budgeting for children

4.1. Normative standards

The realization of children’s rights under child rights treaties calls for the integration of
children’s issues in national budgeting and planning. The African Charter on the Rights
and Welfare of the child, under Article1, stipulates the general obligation of States
which is to recognize the rights therein and undertake all the necessary measures to
ensure the implementation of the Charter. General Comment No 5 of the Committee
on General Measures of Implementation and Systems Strengthening vividly outlines
that the nature of State Obligation under Article 1 of the Charter entails legislative,
institutional, and budgetary measures, among others. Therefore, the implication of
Article 1 of the Charter provides the ground for budgetary measures to be undertaken
by States to ensure that sufficient funding is availed for children. In addition, it is a call
to ensure that legislative and other measures are undertaken in mainstreaming child
rights approach in budgeting and planning. In other words, States should budget and
plan for children but also undertake legislative reforms to reflect children’s needs in
laws and policies dealing with children. Article 4 of the UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child is more explicit about the responsibility of States to mobilize and commit
adequate resources towards the implementation of children’s rights. The UN
Committee on the Rights of the Child developed General Comment no 19 on Public
Budgeting for the Realization of Children’s Rights to provide guidance on the
measures to be undertaken to realize budgeting for children. The General Comment
provides that budgeting for children entails that States ‘take all children’s rights into
consideration throughout all stages of their budget processes and administrative
systems at the national and subnational levels including budget planning, enactment,
execution and follow-up’. Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2040 at continental level as well
as the SDGs at Global level also provide aspirations and goals that need to be
achieved in relation to budgeting and planning with focus on specific sectors.

Even though there are no declarations or commitments on the amount of budget that
should be allocated to children, States have also made commitments on budget
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allocations for various sectors benefiting children through various declarations.
Through the Abuja Declaration on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Other Infectious
Diseases, in 2001 African States committed to invest 15% of their national budget on
health. Globally there is a commitment to allocate 4-6% of GDP and at least 15-20%
of public expenditure to education with a view to implement the education goal of
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition, Member States of the Global
Partnership for Education have committed to spend at least 20% of their public
expenditures on education. The UNESCO 2022 ECCE Toshkent Declaration also
committed to a 10% of education budget to early childhood education.

4.2. State Obligations on budgeting and planning

In line with the above normative standards and commitments, States must undertake
concrete steps to realize children's rights through budgeting and planning for them. As
the Human Rights Council rightly noted in its Resolution on ‘Rights of the child:
Towards better investment in the rights of the child (2015)’, it is only through a proper
investment in children towards the effective implementation of their rights that States
can establish and sustain a just society, address poverty, and build a strong economy.
In their efforts to achieve a sustainable and broad-based investment on children,
States must take legislative and other measures in all budgeting and planning
processes namely budget preparation and formulation; enactment, execution; and
monitoring.

Legislative measures for child rights budgeting requires States to enact, review and
harmonize laws on planning and execution to integrate child rights principles therein.
The aim of the legislative measure should not be only to incorporate child rights
principles in budget laws, but rather to bring a result aimed at improving the status of
child rights in their respective jurisdictions. The legislative measures should address
the aspect of revenue mobilization, budget formulation and budget enactment.
Legislative measures should also be undertaken to regulate the utilization of public
budgeting for children, ensure accountability and transparency, and sanctions for
failure to adhere to the laws and policies on budgeting. States should also conduct
child rights impact assessment on the various laws and policies adopted on budgeting,
planning, or any fiscal related policies. Such assessment enables governments to
adopt exceptions and mechanisms to avert the negative impact fiscal laws and policies
may bring on children. Parliamentary committees dealing with children’s issues may
play the role of leading child rights assessments of laws and polices being discussed
in Parliaments. Adequate planning for children’s rights must be integrated by bringing
child rights experts in the process and conduct children’s consultation.

Governments should take deliberate actions in creating a budget line for the protection
of children's rights and increasing allocations every year. Disaggregated data on
children is crucial to ensuring that child sensitive budgeting and children. States should
collect updated and disaggregated data on children using various indicators and
consult these data while adopting laws, polices, budgets and other decisions.
Children’s need assessment should be undertaken to inform budget planning which
should be informed by scientific data on the proportion of children in a specific country
as well as their status in terms of accessing education, health, child protection,
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nutrition and other facilities. Comprehensive data on budget allocated for children,
budget utilisation, and audit report on child rights budgets should be conducted. These
findings should be publicly available and used in the next budgeting process.

States ought to establish a clear and accessible accountability framework for how
budget is allocated, appropriated, utilized, and tracked. More specifically, States
should establish mechanism to track how much budget is allocated for children and
what outcomes have been achieved through the allocated budget. Such budget
tracking mechanisms play a critical role in evaluating the impact of the budget on
children and ensure accountability. The Committee notes that while budgeting for
children might be there at face value, there are issues that need further assessment
including how much budget is spent on administrative expenses compared to
programs benefiting children, budget execution rates, and how the implementation of
the budget has improved the lived realities of children. The impact of the budget in
ensuring the realization of children’s rights in the Charter is the most important aspect
despite how much budget is allocated as the obligation of states under the Charter
including their budgetary obligation is an obligation of result.

States should take consistent and deliberate action on adopting a child lens to their
budgeting and planning processes. Sensitization of all wings of government focusing
on those dealing with finance and national budgets on child rights should be
undertaken. Child rights considerations should be mainstreamed in all budgeting and
financing issues including international assistance and cooperation, and financial
agreements whereby child rights assessment on the impact of the same is conducted
and evaluated. Moreover, there should be a sustained increase in the budget allocated
for children. Considering that children’s population and needs continue to grow, so
should their budget. States should take progressive and no regressive measures on
budgetary allocations for children.

4.3. Principles for child sensitive budgeting and planning

To achieve budgeting and planning for children in a comprehensive manner, the

legislative, administrative, and other measures on planning and budgeting should be
undertaken in line with the four general principles of the Charter namely, non-
discrimination, best interests of the child, the life, survival and development of the
child, and child participation.

Non-discrimination

The principle of non-discrimination as enshrined under Article 3 of the Charter should

guide the planning and budgeting processes and results. The mobilization, allocation
and spending of budgets should be aimed at addressing the existing disparities among
children based on gender, location, status, and other factors. Governments should not
discriminate against any child in the appropriation of budget, rather, the realization of
the principle of non-discrimination should underpin how budget is allocated among
children. Governments are responsible to undertake assessment of the diversity
among their children, the varying vulnerabilities they may have, with a view to
developing responsive programs and budget to bridge the disparity among children
giving due regard to vulnerable and marginalized children. The budget of States has
to take into account the specific needs of girls and boys, children with disabilities,
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unaccompanied minors, children in rural and remote areas, economically
disadvantaged children, children on the move, children in humanitarian settings, and
children in street situation, among others.

Best interests of the Child

Pursuant to Article 4 of the Charter, any actions undertaken by States should be

aligned with the best interests of the Child. The consideration of the best interest of
the child becomes even more crucial in Africa considering the limited fiscal resources
most countries have. Social budgets are mostly at the risk of being reshuffled and
used for other priorities without necessarily undertaking the best interest test of the
child. However, States must demonstrate and justify their budgetary priorities are in
the best interest of their territories' children. Planning and budgeting for children's
rights requires a realistic assessment of the situation of children's rights, and
budgetary decisions must be subject to an assessment of the impact on children's
rights at the planning stage. The assessment of child rights impact and the best
interest of the child should be conducted in line with the Charter's provisions, and no
other contradictory national norms and standards. Moreover, the consideration of the
child's best interest should be implemented in spending and monitoring public
budgets.

Right to life, survival and development

The right to life, survival, and development of children as a cardinal principle of the
Charter under Article 5 requires States to identify and take steps to promote child
growth by meeting the needs of children in all their developmental stages. Hence,
budgets and programs of States have to visibly show how children of each age group
are considered in planning and executing budgets. The Committee underlines that
investment in children should start from early childhood stage which is a critical stage
to ensure that children grow and thrive in the right direction. The budget allocated for
children should focus on the need for early childhood care and development (ECCD)
investment by Governments. In most countries, ECCD is often left for the private
sector, excluding the larger population of children. The principle of life, survival, and
development requires States to also focus on age-appropriate investment in all stages
of childhood, in addition to ECCD. This relates to the notion of aligning national plans
and budgets with the evolving capacity and needs of children.

Child Participation

The principle of child participation provided under Article 7 of the Charter is another
cardinal principle essential for planning and budgeting for children. The Charter
provides that every child is given a chance to express their view in all matters.
Considering the direct impact of public planning and budget on children, it becomes
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inevitable to consult children in all the processes including budget preparation,
formulation, allocation, spending, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability. While
budget is being prepared, States should consult children to identify their needs and
priorities for investment. For such consultation to be meaningful, information should
be made available to children in a child friendly manner about national planning and
budgeting. Governments should have dedicated child participation platforms which are
representative that discuss and reflect on programs and budgets. These views should
be compiled and submitted to inform decision making. Children's views should be
collected to inform the process and approval of planning and budgeting. There should
be a clear indication on how children’s views informed planning and budgeting.
Moreover, information about children’s budget execution, monitoring and evaluation
should be available in a child friendly manner. Children’s views should be considered
in assessing the impact of Government planning and budgeting. The Committee is of
the view that without ensuring child participation, a child-rights based planning and
budgeting cannot be achieved.

4.4. Progress since 2010

Since 2010, the Committee has observed notable progress on child rights planning
and budgeting from its engagement with States through the State Party reporting
process and other studies conducted.

The Committee notes that there is increased awareness and reporting on child rights
budgeting and planning by State Parties. This enhances increased budgeting for
children and accountability. States have reported that they have increased the budget
for children by increasing the budget allocation for sectors that benefit children.

More countries have reported the adoption of national plans and in recent years child
rights and child development components have been integrated into some of the
plans. This is key as the budget will be allocated and prioritized in line with national
plans. However, sometimes these plans are developed without integrating child rights
as enshrined in the Charter, and without conducting child rights consultations.

Countries have also demonstrated how they have designed economic policies
specifically aimed at improving the lives of children. The African Child Policy Forum
recently issues a study on ‘Good Practices in Child-Sensitive Economic Policies in
Africa’ which documented successful policies in the form of cash transfers in South
Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Lesotho. Moreover, Botswana and Nigeria have
introduced policies aimed at supporting families, providing nutritional support, and
assisting pregnant mothers and their children. Homegrown school feeding schemes in
countries like Ethiopia and subsidies on critical items like in Egypt on oil and petrol are
other examples documented in the Study to highlight good practices. In addition, some
States have increased domestic revenue mobilization to avail resources for children.
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Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania,
Ghana, Algeria, Kenya, and
Zimbabwe are among the
countries that increased.
These efforts have been
effective in reducing child
poverty in the Continent.
According to UNICEF’s data
child poverty has gone down
from 45.2% in 2013 to 40.18%
in 2022 in Africa.

There is also progress in

investments in education,
health, and nutrition. Alost all
countries have established
free primary education
despites some related costs.
Since 2010 many countries
have also established free
secondary education. However, investment in education in Africa is still below the
recommended average. In 2020 the median education budget of Africa was 3.5% of
the GDP which is below the least recommended 4%. In the area of health, while some
countries reported increase in health budget, malnutrition and child mortality remain
to be high. Child mortality has dropped from 90 death per 1000 in 2012 to 72 deaths
per 1000 birth in 2020, yet Africa accounts for half of the worlds under five deaths.
Despite some of the strides, Africa still spends only 5.3% of its GDP on health which
is lower than the 10% global average.

Progress has been achieved in advocacy and partnerships, international support, and
global initiatives on child rights-based budgeting in Africa. This has increased
budgeting for children through programmatic support from CSOs. While this is a
positive trend, there are some indications of the shrinking of civil spaces in Africa.
International cooperation has increased donation aid and financial agreements for
children, however, increased debt of African States is affecting their access to more
credits and accessing some finances.

5. Activities during DAC 2025

During the Day of the African Child 2025, the ACERWC will carry out the following
activities:
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- Online seminar or Panel Discussion will be organised with Member States,
Regional Economic Communities (RECs), NHRIs and CSOs on child-friendly
budgeting to sensitise and build capacity on the issue;
- Training session for children will be held on 15 June 2025 on State obligation
and the role of children in planning and budgeting to foster their meaningful
participation on such issues. Following the training session, children will
develop an outcome statement of their deliberation with a call to all actors;
- Continental celebration on 16 June 2025 will be held in the presence of all
stakeholders. During the continental celebration children will present their
findings on the training session. An intergenerational dialogue will also be held
among children and other child rights actors;
- Outcome statement on child-friendly planning and budgeting following the
celebration of DAC will be released summarising the main findings and calls for
actions for all stakeholders.

6. Recommendations to Member States

The concept note aims to provide information on the specific activities to be

undertaken by Member States in line with the 2025 DAC theme. These
recommendations aim to provide information on the content and structure of Member
States' reports to the ACERWC in order to demonstrate how the commemoration of
the 2023 DAC has played a crucial role in the promotion and protection of children's
rights in planning and budgeting for children's rights. The recommendations are as
follows:

Recommendation Indicators
Ensuring that national planning - Conduct assessment of current budgeting
and budgeting processes and and planning processes
outcomes are child-sensitive - Identify areas in which child sensitive
planning and budgeting can be integrated
- Conduct capacity building for Members of
Parliament, ministries responsible for the
public budget, ministries and bodies
responsible for national plans in child-friendly
planning and budgeting
- Integrate child-sensitive approaches in
planning and budgeting processes
- Develop guidelines on ensuring child rights
based budgeting and planning
- Undertake costing of child rights laws and
programs
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Conduct child rights and impact - Ensure that child rights assessment forms
assessment of laws, policies part of the process of developing national
and budgeting processes plans and budgets
- Integrate child rights experts in the
development of national plans and budgets
- Evaluate national plans and budgets from a
child rights perspective and assess the
impact on the realisation of children’s rights
Increase the level of investment - Increase the budget allocated for children
on children - Increase budget utilisation and execution by
child rights actors through accessible and
effective budgeting processes and
bureaucracy
- Regulate how much should be spent on
administrative and programmatic expenses
Establish child rights budget - Identify how much budget is spent on
tracking mechanisms children’s rights programs from the national
GDP or expenditure
- Identify how much spending has been made
from the budget allocated for children
- Assess the level of investment based on
needs, population growth and vulnerabilities
- Conduct impact assessment by evaluating
how the budget for children is used to
achieve the intended goals and outcomes
- Identify budget gaps that should be
prioritised in the upcoming budget year
Adhere to the principles of - Provide public information about government
transparency and budget and the management of funds on
accountability children’s rights
- Provide such information in a child friendly
manner
- Disseminate this information to all
government and non-government
stakeholders
- Provide mechanisms to report and
investigate corruption and mismanagement
of funds
- Ensure accountability and sanction of those
who abuse and mis-use children’s funds
Enhance national, regional, and - Cooperate with Civil Society Organisations
international cooperation to (CSOs), intergovernmental organisations,
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mobilise resources for multilateral and bilateral initiatives and
children's rights partnerships, among others
- Ensure that children’s programs are funded
through international financial agreements
including debts and donations
- Conduct child rights assessments of
international financial agreements
- Engage the private sector to increase their
social responsibilities
- Develop tax systems that aim at mobilising
resources for children without
disproportionately increasing the cost of
basic goods and items consumed by children

Identify the various - Identify what kinds of vulnerabilities affect

vulnerabilities among children children in various parts of a State. These
to inform budgeting needs include gender, disability, displacement and
migration, conflict, climate change,
pandemics, harmful practices, child labour,
sexual exploitation, children in street
situations among others
- Conduct assessment on how each
vulnerability requires a specific plan and
budget to mitigate its impact on children
- Assess urban-rural disparities in services to
identify planning and budgeting priorities
Ensure effective data - Update data on disaggregated data on
management system on children on various indicators
children - Ensure that data on children is accessible to
all stakeholders
- Consult data on children in the process of
budgeting and planning
Ensure child participation - Establish and strengthen child participation
platforms at all levels and engage these
platforms in budgeting and planning
processes from enactment to implementation
and monitoring
- Ensure that all children without discrimination
take part in budgeting and planning
consultations to ensure all views are
intergraded
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ANNEX

Monitoring framework for reporting on the commemoration of the Day of the

African Child 2025: Template: "Planning and budgeting for children's rights:
Progress since 2010"

This template is a presentation framework that AU Member States and other

stakeholders can use to report to the Committee on the commemoration of the Day of
the African Child 2025, under the theme ''Planning and Budgeting for Children's
Rights: Progress since 2010".

Country:........................................

Measures and activities undertaken :

Summary/analysis of the theme as it applies to the national, local or

organisational context
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Legal, policy, administrative and other measures in place to inform child-

sensitive planning and budgeting
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Measures taken to integrate child rights issues into national planning and
budgeting processes
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Measures taken to monitor the budget allocated to children and principles

applied to ensure a proportionate share of the budget for children
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Measures taken to ensure the effective use and implementation of the budget
allocated to children's rights
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Factors influencing child-friendly planning and budgeting by governments

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Main progress made at national level in increasing budget allocation for

children's issues and integrating the children's agenda into national planning.
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Measures undertaken to ensure children's participation in budgeting and
planning.
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