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Child-Responsive Budgeting: budget as an instrument for the realization of child rights

Child-Responsive Budgeting: budget as an instrument for the realization of child rights. Open Forum “The impact of the crisis on children in the south” Brussels, 28 May 2013. Maria Copani, UNICEF Brussels EU Office. Child responsive-budgeting.

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Child-Responsive Budgeting: budget as an instrument for the realization of child rights

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  1. Child-Responsive Budgeting:budget as an instrument for the realization of child rights Open Forum “The impact of the crisis on children in the south” Brussels, 28 May 2013 Maria Copani, UNICEF Brussels EU Office

  2. Child responsive-budgeting • Budget process and the realization of child rights • Context analysis • ODA response to crisis impacts • Increase “value for money” • How UNICEF can help • How CSOs can help

  3. I. Budget process and the realization of child rights CIVIL SOCIETY BENEFICIARY COUNTRY BUDGET DONORS OwnershipPartnershipHarmonisation/CoordinationFocus on ResultsTrasparencyMutual accountability Realisation of child rights

  4. I. Budget process and the realization of child rights Child-responsive budgeting: • Quality information on policies, costs … transparency! • Ensuring participation of stakeholders • Conduct public expenditure tracking • Analyze revenue and expenditure policies • Fiscal space • Advocate for social protection scheme

  5. II. The context analysis (1): Identify how the crisis continues to affect vulnerable populations and children

  6. Government Spending: Austerity measures Number of Countries Contracting Public Expenditures as a % GDP, 2008-15 Source: Ortiz and Cummins, “The Age of Austerity,” Initiative for Policy Dialogue and The South Centre, March 2013

  7. II. The Context Analysis (2): Rights-based Causality Analysis ODA program: elimination of maternal and infant mortality Right: maternal and infant survival Source: UNICEF-EC toolkit on Integrating Child Rights into Development Cooperation

  8. III. Design ODA to Protect Children during Crisis Aid Modality 1. Budget support • Counter austerity measures that affect children • Price stability support programmes, if appropriate • Protect the number and compensation of frontline public sector workers • Ensure supply of essential drugs and medicines • Maintain or increase social protection Aid Modality 2. Programme support • Increase depth and scale of programmes that are most important to protecting child wellbeing • Nutrition/feeding support • Improving coverage of health services • Youth and adult employment generation schemes • Early childhood development programmes

  9. IV. Increase “value for money” • Ensure money reaches intended beneficiaries: Monitoring public spending (and budget support) that are key to child outcomes • Child sensitive, real time monitoring of public expenditure at the local level, linking to central level --UNICEF is developing with World Bank Child-focused Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS) and Public Expenditure Reviews (PER) • Do more with less: Promote economy, efficiency and cost effectiveness in ODA programming and Technical assistance • A whole child view – their rights and needs are interdependent, mutually reinforcing, and inalienable – UNICEF’s Multiple, Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA) • Increase value for money by tackling overlapping deprivations • A stunted child will not be helped by nutrition support if her health deprivation is not address and she gets pneumonia, which will also cause stunting • Highly, multiply deprived children are most cost effectively supported through multi-sectoral, integrated interventions

  10. MODA reveals highly, multiply deprived children • http://www.unicef-irc.org/MODA/

  11. V. How can UNICEF help: • Analyze crisis impact and apply child-rights perspective in the country context analysis • Identify priority programmatic areas for children as crisis response • Monitoring of public expenditures in the most vulnerable communities (UNICEF’s Monitoring for Equity Results System - MoRES) • Support or provide MODA analyses and integrated interventions

  12. VI. How can civil society help: entry points into the policy-budget cycle for engagement with key stakeholders

  13. VI. How can civil society help • Informed advocacy • North-south / best use of networks • Policy coordination across NGOs/coalition • Monitor implementation of national strategy on child rights (across internal and external affairs) • Promote key institutional arrangements (e.g. Minister for Children)

  14. Thank you!

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