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Management Report for 2015-2018 Inter American Children’s Institute Prof. Lic. Víctor Giorgi

Management Report for 2015-2018 Inter American Children’s Institute Prof. Lic. Víctor Giorgi Director General Washington, May 2019. Institutional Positioning.

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Management Report for 2015-2018 Inter American Children’s Institute Prof. Lic. Víctor Giorgi

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  1. Management Reportfor 2015-2018 • Inter American Children’sInstitute • Prof. Lic. Víctor Giorgi • Director General • Washington, May 2019

  2. Institutional Positioning • One of our achievements this period is having been able to reposition the IIN as a lead agency in policies for childhood and adolescence in the region. • Communication with the States increased as a result of their requests for technical assistance and their engagement in activities proposed by the IIN. • We strengthened our ties with the United Nations system, through the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Office of the United Nations Special Representative on Violence against Children. • At the sub-regional level, we provided technical assistance to the Niñ@sur Commission, with which we have established a permanent connection, and initiated contacts with SICA. • We have bolstered our relationship with CSOs, particularly through the Global Movement for Children, in which we have become part of the directing Troika.

  3. The eradication of violence in everyday settings • "Good practices" are identified in the 4 subregions (Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Santa Lucia, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay). • Agreements with strategic partners (Kinder Villages SOS and Marist Foundation of International Solidarity) to deepen their analysis. • Since 2017 the dictation of the course "Violence and rights of children and adolescents ... building peace environments“ begins; it received 1300 applications. • The adoption of Goal 16.2 of the SDGs favored agreements with the United Nations with Civil Society, especially MMI-LAC. •  At the proposal of the Office of Marta Santos Pais, the IIN coordinates the report on progress in the Region to present it to the United Nations SG. • Follow-up to parliamentary processes of prohibition of corporal punishment. • Inter-institutional and intergenerational intervention models are developed and implemented (Dominican Republic, Panama). • Interinstitutional Workshop Violence-free environments, in Asunción (2017) and Villarica (2018) both in Paraguay. Coordinated activities with Costa Rica, El Salvador and Uruguay sharing experiences identified as significant contribution.

  4. Primera Infancia • Our target of training 100 decision-makers and policy planners in cross-sectoral policies for early childhood was tripled. • A working agreement was reached with the National Secretariat for Childhood and Family (Republic of Argentina) to train and certify 120 officials from the Under Secretariat for Early Childhood. • To this quantitative target were added other major achievements: follow-up for the Early Childhood Commission, COMPI (Paraguay), training events in Uruguay and El Salvador, and requests for advisory services in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic (these are at an initial stage). • A dissemination campaign on “The Right of Boys and Girls to a Family” was carried out, using the website and social networks, on the basis of the IACHR’s paper of the same name and contributions from the States.

  5. Juvenile Justice • We worked together with UNICEF to promote non-custodial measures for adolescents in violation of criminal law. • Publication "Intervention Model for non-custodial sanctions for adolescents" – Uruguay. • Exchange of experiences El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Uruguay to identify progress and obstacles in the implementation of non-custodial measures. • Technical assistance to El Salvador with the inter-institutional table, for the formulation of recommendations to the Juvenile Criminal Law and the Law on Surveillance and Control of the Execution of Measures for Minors Subjected to Juvenile Criminal Law. • Technical assistance to Guatemala to reduce violence in establishments.

  6. Inter-American Cooperation Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Exploitation, and Smuggling of and Trafficking in Children. • From 2015 to 2018, 713 people from 11 States have participated in the blended course: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay. • Joint note with the United Nations and UNICEF to the States of Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago to promote the ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and the Use of Children in Pornography. • Consolidation of the participation of the IIN in the Regional Action Group of the Americas (GARA). • Report to the Secretary General of the OAS on addressing the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in the CARICOM member states. • Technical links designated in 15 States: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

  7. Inter-American Cooperation Programme to Prevent and Remedy Cases of International Abduction of Minors by One of Their Parents (AG/RES. 1691 (XXIX-O/99) - AG/RES. 2028 (XXXIV-O/04) • Program supported by the Argentine Republic. • Technical assistance to the Central Authority of Mexico, in the development of procedural guidance in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC). • 10th version in Spanish and 2nd in English of the Inter-American Course on International Abduction of Children. 42 people participated from: Barbados, Belize, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay. • Sub regional Meeting of Central Authorities of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Panama. • Sub regional Meeting of Central Authorities of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, in cooperation with ICMEC and the Ministry of Justice of Ecuador.

  8. MigrantChildren • We have coordinated with the IOM on a joint online course on the Rights of Children and Youth in Human Mobility Situations. First course in 2018. • Positive practices identified in relation to child migration, particularly unaccompanied minors, with a view to promoting horizontal and triangular cooperation. • Coordination initiated with the Committee on Migration Issues in order to promote the Inter-American Programme on the subject. • Dissemination and follow-up to AC 21/14.

  9. Child Participation • Interest of States reflected in multiple requests for technical assistance. • Follow-up to the processes in 12 States: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia; Costa Rica, El Salvador; Ecuador; Mexico, Panama; Paraguay; Peru and Uruguay. • Field activities in 10 States: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Dominican Republic; Panama; Honduras; Brazil; Paraguay; Colombia; Paraguay and Uruguay involving 421 children and adolescents from 17 countries in the region and Europe. • In Paraguay fourth edition of the training proposal is being developed reaching with it 125 operators of public institutions. • Specification of the participation of children and adolescents in institutional spaces: Directing Council, Child and Youth Day of the Americas. • Network of Child and Adolescent Correspondents (RED CORIA), integrated by adolescents from 7 countries (Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay). Two members of this network will represent adolescents from the Americas as advisers to the Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva. • The IIN-OAS has the Regional Advisory Group on Adolescent Child Participation - GRAPIA. Consisting of 7 young people between 18 and 25 years old: Uruguay, Mexico, El Salvador, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile, Peru. • Implementation of Intergenerational Networks (RIAMUSI) Dominican Republic, Panama, Nicaragua. By 2020, they will be implemented in Ecuador and Mexico.

  10. Communication • The consolidation of a Communications Area gave the IIN high visibility through social networks. It allowed the elaboration of communicational products at low cost. • Our Voice to Colors webpage redesigned - www.nuestravozacoloresiinoea.org • Newsletter IINfancia 3 and 4 in English and Spanish. : https://issuu.com/institutointeramericanodelninolanin • Implementation of the ZOOM system for virtual communications. • Constant presence in social networks. • Celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the IIN, call for short stories and photographs of children between 10 and 17 years “Rights Should Not be a Tall Tale” and " The Rights Album”. • Educational guide on children's rights, declared of interest by the National Secretariat of Culture. Paraguay http://ow.ly/WEKX30j2knb

  11. Inter-American Training Programme (IATP) • We delivered 14 yearly courses, 3 of them in English, for a total of 507 participants from 38 States: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belize, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. • Special courses were developed on demand and skills transfer was effected for the training of human resources in Peru, Ecuador and Paraguay. • Coordination with other institutions for the joint design and implementation of courses: SOS Children's Villages, a course on “Violence and Children’s Rights… Building Peaceful Environments”; International Organization for Migration, a course on “Migrant Children”. • The growing demand for the courses we deliver is an indication of their relevance and the positive assessment of the States.

  12. Relationship with the Caribbean States. • The work with the CARICOM Member States was one of the commitments assumed at the beginning of this administration. • A full-time high-ranking official was assigned to articulate the presence of the different lines of work in the sub-region. • The offer of courses dictated in English was tripled. • The 92nd Meeting of the Directing Council took place in Bridgetown, Barbados September 2017, in the presence of the Secretary General of the OAS. • A virtual communication platform is implemented between the states of CARICOM, the United States, and Canada, which the IIN set up in July 2018. • The Report on addressing the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in the CARICOM member states for the Secretary General.

  13. Financial Issues • The IIN has an annual budget of close to one million US dollars, with the exception of 2017, when we suffered a reduction of nearly 33%. • There is a renewed risk of budget cuts for 2019. • The regular fund approved for 2018 amounts to USD 1,062,400. • Object 1 corresponds to Staff (OAS personnel), and amounts to USD 469,400. • The budget allocated to objects 2 to 9 amounts to USD 593,000 and represents the resources that the IIN has available for contracts, operating expenses, technical missions, outreach materials, and other items.

  14. Budget Distribution

  15. Strategic Achievements • Repositioning the IIN as a lead agency in the region as regards policies for children and youth, for the United Nations system, Organized Civil Society and within the OAS itself. • The quality and relevance of our human recourses training courses, together with their various formats and ongoing dialogue with the States explain the increasing demand from year to year and the interest of the States to enter into agreements that entail undertaking various levels of joint organization.

  16. Strategic Achievements • Our intensive work in protecting, promoting and exercising the right to participation has enabled us to create methodological tools, develop conceptual material and promote the organized participation of children and youth in different venues. The institutionalization of child participation in the Permanent Council of the OAS and the Directing Council of the IIN is an indicator of this process. • We have a number of different networks of organized children and youth in the region, which makes it possible to conduct surveys and compile inputs with relative ease and speed.

  17. Strategic Achievements • Consolidating a Communications Area granted the IIN a high level of visibility on the social networks. Our communication products (publications; videos; campaigns) increased in quantity and quality, despite budgetary constraints. • Adopting Target 16.2 of the SDGs as a focus for the line of action on the eradication of violence positioned the IIN as regional pacesetter in this issue, and led to a number of coordination links regionally, and with the United Nations.

  18. The Presence of IIN-OAS in the Region

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