OVERVIEW
This website is designed to allow easy access to information relating to reporting on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The toolkit is made up of eight modules listed in the table of contents below.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTORY MODULE – INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS
MODULE 1 - INTRODUCTION TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW)
1.1 Human Rights for Women: a Brief Introduction
1.2 CEDAW: Introduction
1.3 The CEDAW Committee
1.4 The Optional Protocol
1.5 The Structure and Key Provisions of CEDAW
1.6 The 3 Key Principles of CEDAW
1.7 Referencing table: Articles of CEDAW
1.8 Referencing table: General Recommendations of CEDAW
MODULE 2 - INTRODUCTION TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (CRC)
2.1 A Brief History of Children’s Rights
2.2 CRC: Introduction
2.3 The CRC Committee
2.4 The Structure of CRC
2.5 Underpinning Principles of CRC
2.6 The Three ‘P’s (Protection, Provision and Participation)
2.7 State Structures, Systems and Budgeting
2.8 Children’s Rights in the CRC: What the Articles Say
2.9 The Optional Protocols to the CRC
MODULE 3: PREPARING THE STATE REPORT
3.1 The UN Treaty Monitoring System
3.2 Why are States Required to Report?
3.3. When to Submit a Report
3.4. Failure to Report
3.5 Reporting Logistics
3.6 Preparing to Draft a State Report: Some Points to Remember
3.7 Contents of the Report
3.8 The Common Core Document
3.9 The Treaty Specific Document
MODULE 4 - SUBMITTING THE STATE PARTY REPORT
4.1 The Different Stages of the Reporting Process
4.2 Stage 1: The Submission of the State Report
4.3 Stage 2: The Pre-Sessional Working Group
4.4 Stage 3: The List of Issues
4.5 Stage 4: The Written Response to List of Issues
4.6 Stage 5: The Plenary Session/ Constructive Dialogue
4.7 Stage 6: The Concluding Observations
4.8 Stage 7: The Follow- Up Procedure
MODULE 5 – DATA COLLECTION
5.1 Introduction to Data Collection
5.2 What Data to Collect? Indicators for Human Rights
5.3 Data for the Common Core Document
5.4 Data for the CRC Report
5.5 Data for the CEDAW Report
5.6 Data Sources: Collecting Data
5.7 Challenges and Issues
MODULE 6 - PARTICIPATION
6.1 What is Participation?
6.2 The Principle of Participation and CEDAW and CRC
6.3 Participation as a Practice in the Treaty Reporting Process
6.4 Child participation: Fundamental Principles
6.5 Including Children in the Reporting Process: Principles into Practice
6.6 Women’s Participation: Fundamental Principles
6.7 Including Women in the Reporting Process: Principles into Practice
MODULE 7: THE NGO SHADOW/ALTERNATIVE REPORT
7.1 NGO Participation in the Production of the State Report
7.2 NGO Submission of Shadow or Alternative Reports
7.3 Attending the Treaty Body Sessions
7.4 NGO Participation in Briefings
7.5 The Role of NGOs in Follow-Up
MODULE 8: FOLLOW-UP
8.1 Following up on Concluding Observations
8.2 The CEDAW ‘Follow-Up’ Procedure
8.3 Follow-Up at the National Level
8.4 Mainstreaming Children’s and Women’s Rights
8.5 Technical Assistance for Follow-Up to the
CONCLUSION