Professor Karen Malone Child Friendly Kazakhstan Designing and implementing a national child friendly cities recognition and accreditation program

Professor Karen Malone

Child Friendly KazakhstanDesigning and implementing a national child friendly

cities recognition and accreditation program

What is a Child-friendly City?

“A child-friendly city is a system of good local governance committed to the fullest implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child” (UNICEF 2004)

http://www.childfriendlycities.org/

UNICEF’s Child-friendly Cities Initiative

UNICEF Child Friendly City Initiative through its UNICEF country and regional offices and national commissions aims to guide cities and other systems of local governance in the inclusion of children’s rights as a key component of their goals, policies, programmes and structures.

UNICEF’s Child-friendly Cities


There are 62 countries supporting UNICEF child friendly cities initiatives and many thousands of cities who are working to be or are accredited as child friendly cities.

Brazil alone has over 1700 child friendly cities in rural regions and 200 urban cities registered in their program

UNICEF’s Child-friendly Cities Support Tools

• Framework for Action• Research Initiative• Criteria and Indicators• Accreditation

Building Child-friendly Cities Framework of Action

http://www.childfriendlycities.org/en/building-a-cfc/cfc-conceptual-framework

UNICEF Child Friendly Cities Building Blocks


1. Children’s participation2. A child friendly legal framework3. A city-wide Children’s Rights Strategy4. A Children’s rights Unit or Coordination5. Child impact assessment & evaluation6. A Children’s Budget7. State of the City’s Children Report8. Making Children’s Rights Known9. Independent Advocacy for Children

UNICEF’s Child-friendly Cities Research Initiative

Child Friendly Cities Research Initiative aims to improve policy development for children at the local level by promoting awareness of children’s rights among stakeholders, mobilising communities and children, and generating data on the situation of children in participating cities and communities.


UNICEF’s Child-friendly Cities Research Initiative

The initiative provides a package of participatory assessment tools which are designed to be easily adapted to local contexts and to be used by a variety of actors including children themselves, caregivers, community providers and municipal authorities.


UNICEF’s Child-Friendly Cities Indicators

Criteria and indicators based on Convention on Rights of Children have been developed in different countries to determine the level of child friendliness of cities and towns of different sizes.

In the case of an accreditation mechanism or award strategy, only a city, town or community that performs well according to the indicators defined is considered a child friendly city.


UNICEF’s Child-Friendly Cities Accreditation

Aim: To improve children’s lives

Key approach: Promoting good local governance; Children’s participation; Placing children and their rights at the centre

Task: Municipalities commit to developing a strategy to improve and monitor the situation of children and to mobilize adequate resources to achieve specific agreed upon goals.


Comparisons Global Child Friendly Cities Accreditation models

Different Organising Models

Competition Self-selection Application

Brazil

Indonesia

Philippines

Dominican Republic

Morrocco

France

Spain

Switzerland

Key elements across models

JudgeJudge CriteriaCriteria ProcessProcess CycleCycle

a body or a group of officials who coordinate and manage the process

a set of criteria or indicators that are met through the development of certain programs, activities or services

judging process that to be conducted on a regular basis for initial accreditation and reaccreditation

set period of accreditation after which time a reapplication is necessary

Comparisons Global Child Friendly Cities Accreditation models

Hot School Meals, Saran City Kazakhstan

Designing a Model of Accreditation for Kazakhstan

Major success for children in Kazakhstan

Increase in city budgets for children - Kazakhstan

Major Success for children in Kazakhstan

Infant mortality rates - Kazakhstan


Youth participation - Kazakhstan


Child friendly schools - Kazakhstan


Tree planting and playgrounds - Kazakhstan

Major Issues for Children in Kazakhstan

Air & water quality - Kazakhstan


Preschool provision- Kazakhstan


Educational integration children with disabilities and special needs - Kazakhstan


Social orphans and children in institutions- Kazakhstan

Recommendations from Review

Children and youth should be integral to, and participants in, the implementation, monitoring and judging of a city in terms of its commitment to changing children’s life conditions and the cities evidence of quality in delivering programs for child friendliness;

Issues of equity and children’s non-discrimination are core and should be fundamental elements of the criteria for evaluating the quality of child friendliness;


Criteria and indicators used to assess child friendliness should be generic for the country and adapted directly from key articles in UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child;

A recognition model should be initiated to support cities who are starting their child friendly cities program and this model should have a pathway into the accreditation program;


A city is not competing against other cities but against its own achievements, therefore providing detailed baseline data and having a city wide strategy and action plan is critical for cities in the beginning stages in order for cities to provide on going monitoring, assessment and evidence of improvement;


Cities should be accredited at different levels (i.e. bronze, silver, gold) of child friendliness according to the different stages they are at in terms of addressing the needs of children in their city with these different levels having different time limits;

The maximum time for a city to be accredited as child friendly without resubmitting for reaccreditation should be 5 years.

Key elements used for Kazakhstan Model

JudgeJudge CriteriaCriteria ProcessProcess CycleCycle

a body or a group of officials who coordinate and manage the process

a set of criteria or indicators that are met through the development of certain programs, activities or services

judging process that to be conducted on a regular basis for initial accreditation and reaccreditation

set period of accreditation after which time a reapplication is necessary

Kazakhstan Model of Recognition

City-wide Resolution Key Stakeholders


Children’s Budget

Children’s Budget

Baseline (de-aggregated & aggregate) data


Develop Children’s Strategy & Action PlanDevelop Children’s Strategy & Action Plan

Child/Youth Participation


Implementation & Analysis Governance data


Asset Audit Facilities & Services


Develop Baseline Portfolio Mayor with Child Friendly Cities Coordinating Unit


Child Friendly Cities Coordinating UnitMayor with community appoint members

UNICEF Child Friendly CitiesNew Application - Recognition

Feedback & Recognition National Level Child Friendly Cities Committee


Submit Portfolio + Strategy & Action plan

2. Recognition supported – Bronze level – 1 – 2 years


1. Recognition not supported-

feedback report


feedback report

Waits for next expression of interest to apply for accreditation

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Principles, Goals & Priorities(short-long term)

STAGE ONE Pre-Accreditation

Construct a Child Friendly Cities Coordinating Unit who will oversee and facilitate the design and implementation and monitoring of initiatives and accreditation

















Self Assessment data derived from community based surveys with child and community participation

Aggregate data – country-wide statistical data, UNICEF State of World’s Children reporting, Country reports

















A tool for any Local Authority (LA) that wishes to explore how to become children friendly.

Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) , Child Friendly Cities Framework for Action

How LA respond children: collects data, listens to child/parents perspectives, makes policies, strategies and plans, works with and informs communities and trains staff

















Providing a situational analysis through an assets audit allows the city to collate what services and facilities are available for children in the city and also the quality of those facilities and services.

Must account for the diverse population of young people their age, gender, ethnicity and location and the importance of non-discrimmination.

















Sign off a city wide resolution or memorandum of understanding between the key government, stakeholders and other community partners




Children’s Budget

Children’s Budget

















PrinciplesGoals & Priorities(short-long term)

PrinciplesGoals & Priorities(short-long term)

Going beyond goals, statements of policy and principle the strategy needs to set real and achievable targets and a description of the process of implementation through an action plan




Children’s Budget

Children’s Budget

















Children’s Budget

Children’s Budget

Adequate resources and a commitment to a transparent budget that is made accessible to all citizens should be included with the strategy.




Children’s Budget

Children’s Budget

















Child/Youth ParticipationChild/Youth Participation

The best judge of how a city is providing for its children is the children and their families therefore a child friendly city strategy has at its heart the role of children and families as key knowledge generators and monitors of actions, services and facilities.





Submit Portfolio + Strategy & Action plan




feedback report


feedback report

Waits for next expression of interest to apply for accreditation

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Child Friendly Committee Decision: 1. Not support the city as a recognized child friendly city, in which case they will be provided with feedback and asked to reapply when they have addressed any concerns the committee identified;

2. Recognise the city as a bronze level accreditation allowing the city to apply for accreditation at the next call for an expression of interest.

Kazakhstan Model of (Re) Accreditation

Feedback report child/youth/community

organisations


organisations

Feedback report Regional office for

Protection Child Rights



Accreditation Judging PanelNational Level Child Friendly Cities Committee


Evidence of impact Baseline & Governance data


Quality Audit EvaluatingFacilities & Services


Evaluation Child/Youth

ParticipationEvaluation Child/Youth

ParticipationEvaluation Strategy & Action

Plan (incl. Budget)

Evaluation Strategy & Action Plan (incl. Budget)

Develop Accreditation Portfolio Mayor with Child Friendly Cities Coordinating Unit


National Child Friendly Cities CommitteeCalls for Expression of Interest (biannual)

UNICEF Child Friendly Cities (Re) Accreditation

1. Accreditation not supported -

suspended


suspended

2. Accreditation supported - Silver

level – 2 years


level – 2 years

3. Accreditation supported - Gold

level – 4 years


level – 4 years

Builds on feedback and w

aits for next expression of interest to reapply for accreditation

Waits for 2 or 5 years respectively to reapply for accreditation

STAGE TWO(Re) Accreditation

Submit Portfolio

Calls for an expression of interest is sent out – cities apply for accreditation and must then submit a portfolio with evidence of their own self monitored progress



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Submit Portfolio

Develop Accreditation Portfolio

By monitoring and evaluating progress against baseline data, past governance tool outcomes, success in engaging children, and all aspects of the action plan using the CFC indicators– cities produce evidence to support their case for accreditation to achieve status as child friendly,

Child Friendly Country and City Progress Reports



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Submit Portfolio





Portfolio and evidence should be submitted to the Regional office for Protection Child Rights . The office should provide a feedback report and send this to the judging panel.



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Portfolio and evidence should be submitted to the a community based panel which has children/youth and representatives form key community level organisations. The panel should provide a feedback report and send this to the judging panel.






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Members of Judging Panel: children and youth representatives, journalist/media representative, presidential elect, UNICEF representative, National Governments Child Rights Committee, NGO representatives, community/parent representative, a high profile ambassador.

Accreditation Judging PanelNational Level Child Friendly

Cities Committee

Accreditation Judging PanelNational Level Child Friendly

Cities Committee






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Three possible decisions by panel: Accreditation is not supported city advised to respond to the panel feedback and reapply at a later date

Silver level accreditation lasts two years and identifies city has fulfilled the basic requirements for being child friendly but has areas for improvement

Gold level accreditation lasts 4 years acknowledges city as lighthouse, city of excellence and best practice in child friendliness.



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Submit Portfolio

By monitoring progress using the indicators cities are able to produce evidence to support their case for accreditation to achieve status as child friendly

Professor Karen Malone

School of Education

University of Western Sydney

Bankstown NSW

Email: [email protected]

www.childfriendlyasiapacific.net

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Professor Karen Malone Child Friendly Kazakhstan Designing and implementing a national child friendly cities recognition and accreditation program