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ASEAN : The Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Increased Accountability of ASEAN and SAARC for the Realization of Children’s Right to Protection. ASEAN : The Association of Southeast Asian Nations SAARC: South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation. Advocacy targeting Regional Bodies (ASEAN and SAARC)

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ASEAN : The Association of Southeast Asian Nations

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  1. Increased Accountability of ASEANand SAARCfor the Realization of Children’s Right to Protection ASEAN : The Association of Southeast Asian Nations SAARC: South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation

  2. Advocacy targeting Regional Bodies (ASEAN and SAARC) • Policy Changes on VAC and CSA/CSEC • Through CSO’s Advocacy / Capacity Strengthening CSA : Child Sexual Abuse CSEC: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children CSO : Civil Society Organisation VAC : Violence Against Children

  3. ACWC Plan Asia Regional Office and Country Offices SAIEVAC NORAD / NNO ACWC: ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children NNO : Plan Norway Office NORAD: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation SNO : Plan Sweden Office SIDA: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency RPA : Regional Plan of Action SAIEVAC: South Asia Initiative for Ending Violence against Children

  4. Specific objectives CRC Asia : Child Rights Coalition Asia CZOP : National Coalition for Children as Zones of Peace and Child Protection NACG: National Action and Coordinating Group Against Violence against Children OP: Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child UNCRC: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

  5. Advocacy Targets (http://asean.org/) http://www.saievac.org http://www.saievac.org/nacg-national-action-and-coordination-group/

  6. Key Advocacy Targets and Agencies

  7. Implementing Areas

  8. TIMEFRAME and FUNDING SOURCE Start-up: June 2015 MFA: Minister of Foreign Affairs

  9. Key Activities

  10. Advocacy for Policy Development / Changes SAIEVAC developed the DRAFT regional action plan for the Elimination of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation including Online Exploitation in consultations with CSOs. ASEAN adopted RPA on VAC in 2015, which included CSOs’ inputs to ensure its alignment with UNCRC and OPs.

  11. Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2015 • Regional Training on Advocacy Strategising and Annual Meeting • 02-05 November 2015 | Bangkok, Thailand

  12. Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2016 • Regional Training on Disability Inclusion in Child Protection and Annual Meeting • 03-07 October 2016| Bangkok, Thailand

  13. Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2017 Advancing Gender Equality Training and Annual Meeting 02-06 October 2017 | Bangkok, Thailand

  14. Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2018 Fundraising Training for Sustainable Impact and Annual Meeting 08-10 October 2018 | Bangkok, Thailand

  15. Strengthening Civil Society Organisations Supporting NACG Sri Lanka 13 December 2017 | Colombo, Sri Lanka

  16. Plan ARO - Field Visit and Technical Support • Meeting with Hong Kong Committee on Children's Rights and Plan Hong Kong National Office,December 2017 Submitted a concept note for “Research on the Digital Experience of Children in Asia, including Online Abuse and Exploitation for Stronger Evidence-based Advocacy at Regional Level”

  17. Induction meeting with the new Coordinating Organisation (CZOP) and visit SAIEVAC – April 2018 Together with NACG Nepal, Plan ARO introduced the new Coordinating Organisation (CZOP) to the Director-General of SAIEVAC Meeting with CZOP staff and Board members to introduce the Project plan and update the Project progress

  18. CSO Project Steering Committee Meetings NACG Chairs and representatives revisited on the draft of Steering Committee draft TOR and Project Advocacy Plan and Strategies on 13 May 2018 | Bhutan & on 15 Sep 2018 | Colombo In addition, CZOP as the new Coordinating Organisationalso introduced themselves and clarified its roles and responsibilities with the Committee.

  19. POLICY FORUMS Investing in Children Learning Session November 2017 | Manila, Philippines

  20. POLICY FORUMS ASEAN Regional Children’s Consultation on Online Child Protection February 2018 | Jakarta, Indonesia Section title [enter in Footer field from the Insert ribbon]

  21. POLICY FORUMS Asia-Pacific Partnership Meeting of Child Rights Coalitions and Networks June 2018 | Manila, Philippines

  22. POLICY FORUMS ACWC Strategy Dialogue: Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration to Fast-Track the Implementation of ASEAN RPA on EVAW and ASEAN RPA on EVAC towards achieving SDG Goal 5 and SDG 16.2 July 2018 | Jakarta, Indonesia

  23. ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN Roundtable Discussion on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration November 2017 | Bohol, Philippines

  24. ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN ACWC Partnership Conference March 2018 | Manila, Philippines

  25. ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN ACWC’s Baseline Study on Child Participation in ASEAN and Member States

  26. POLICY ADVOCACY & CAMPAIGNS Production of Advocacy Tool Publication: December 2016 Launch: July 2017

  27. ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN National Consultation of the ACWC with CSOs on the Implementation of the ASEAN RPAs on EVAW and EVAC 19 December 2016 | Yangon, Myanmar EVAW: The End Violence Against WomenCoalition

  28. ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN AICHR Seminar on Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights in ASEAN 03-04 November 2016 | Singapore AICHR:  ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights

  29. ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN & UN SRSG VAC Dialogue meeting of children and CSOs with UN SRSG VAC 06 June 2017 | Manila, Philippines UN SRSG: United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against children

  30. Evidence-base Advocacy Popularization of research and studies through social media

  31. Child Participation The first time children and young people took part in the Cross-Regional Roundtable. They had the opportunity to discuss and share their inputs on child protection themes including online violence, abuse, and the empowerment and participation of children to prevent and address incidents of violence.

  32. Publications and Materials Reprinting of child-friendly materials

  33. Technical Review Regional Strategy on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation including Online Safety on 19-20 October 2016 | Bangkok

  34. Capacity Building Child Participation Training for NACG Members In December, 2016 |Sri Lanka, Colombo

  35. Children’s Participation Regional Children’s Consultation on Regional Action Plan on the Elimination of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation including Online Exploitation 12 - 14 December, 2016 Sri Lanka, Colombo Children’s inputs how to protect children from CSAE including Making protection of children part of the academic curriculum A mechanism to hear and address children’s voices/grievances Cooperation between the SAARC countries Children and their voices taken seriously at the regional level More severe punishments and penalties for perpetrators Increased awareness among children at regional level in regard to CSA/CSEC

  36. Mapping on children and youth groups (to be continued/completed) • The mapping shows that very few child groups are available in SAARC: most of them have been established by NGOs trying to integrate child participation in their programming. • Youth groups are more common. Some child parliaments are more active than others; it is quite operational in Bhutan whilst it is dormant in Pakistan. • Those initiatives are usually donors driven and stop once financial support is provided. • There are in total 53 rganisationsin following countries; • Afghanistan (9) • Bangladesh (12) • Bhutan (3) • India (7) • Maldives (0) • Nepal (7) • Pakistan (12) • Sri Lanka (3) Section title [enter in Footer field from the Insert ribbon]

  37. Preparatory Regional Children Assembly • on Regional Action Plan on the Elimination of CSAE including Online Exploitation • “What should be the ToRs of the children and youth summit?” Ensuring children’s rights to education Countering child labour Promoting equality between boys and girls and transgender children (gender equality) Protecting children from abuse and violence Stopping child marriage Ensuring relevant infrastructures for children’s care: shelters, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, schools, safe transport, play-ground. Ensuring that children have access to clean water, clean environment and food. Ensuring that adults are nice, do not shout and do not hit them. Section title [enter in Footer field from the Insert ribbon]

  38. Project Mid-Term Review - RECOMMENDATIONS

  39. WAY FORWARD

  40. WAY FORWARD (cont’d)

  41. WAY FORWARD (cont’d)

  42. Two-page Project Summary and Infographic

  43. Project WEBSITE (www.civilsocietyasia.org) There are almost 80 publications available online and 12 of them are child-friendly version.

  44. THANK YOU!

  45. Questions and Answers

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