CONCEPT SUMMARY ONE (1):
Child Rights Monitoring, Documentation, and Reporting Project

PROJECT SUMMARY AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES

Overall Goal

To contribute towards the protection and promotion of child rights in Malawi through proper documentation and dissemination of the same.

Specific Objectives and Expected Results

1. To undertake child rights investigations in a systematic manner as a basis upon which to develop campaigns for the promotion and protection of child rights.
2. To monitor and report systematically on child rights issues in criminal proceedings, and other relevant civil procedures.
3. To disseminate documented information to the public through the media and other appropriate means.

Project Description

Despite the establishment of a number of institutions to safeguard the fundamental human rights - such as the Office of the Ombudsman, Law Commission, Malawi Human rights Commission, the National Compensation Tribunal and Prison Inspectorate - as well as the proliferation local NGOs that promote, protect and monitor human rights, including those of children, many problems remain to be addressed.

Most institutions established under the new constitution and NGOs lack capacity and resources to effectively play their role of safeguarding human rights. What is obvious is that even the local child rights institutions are not able to effectively promote, protect and monitor child rights through systematic collection of comprehensive child rights data that could facilitate the effective measurement of progress.

It is based on the fore-going realities that CRIDOC intends to implement a project that would train a pool of child rights monitors in skills such as preparing, carrying out and recording an interview with a witness or victim of a child rights violation; reporting standards; evaluation and corroboration of evidence, etc.

Monitors will be drawn from CBOs, church, women and youth groups, extension workers, trade union members, and others. CRIDOC will use some of its institutional members and partners to act as child rights monitors in their respective communities. Initially, sixty (60) monitors will be trained, selected from all the country’s 28 districts. The number to be trained from each district will depend on the size and geographical features of a particular district.

The trained monitors will be deployed to monitor child rights issues in their communities. Since most child rights violations still occur in police cells, some monitors will be deployed to specifically monitor these violations in major police stations.

Since the project involves collection and storage of a lot of information and data, there will be need to create a Database for proper storage and processing of the information. The creation of a Data Base will be preceded by the development of standard formats for documenting and reporting child rights issues for easy processing of the information.

Dissemination of documented child rights violations will be a another crucial activity in this project. Apart from disseminating the information through the established media and awareness creation workshops/seminars, the project will establish a bi-monthly Newsletter in which child rights violations will be reported.

NOTE:
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