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Childrens rights indicators from theory to implementation: the Flemish case Hanne Op de Beeck Childrens Rights Knowledge Center (KeKi) Overview I. Introduction: Belgium and Flanders Flemish Action Plan for Childrens Rights

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Children’s rights indicators from theory to implementation: the Flemish case Hanne Op de Beeck Children’s Rights Knowledge Center (KeKi)

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Overview

I. Introduction:

  • Belgium and Flanders
  • Flemish Action Plan for Children’s Rights
  • ‘Indicators’ as KeKi’s 2012 theme
  • II. KeKi’s study
  • III. KeKi’s recommendations
  • IV. The Flemish Government’s approach

Children’s rights indicators from theory to implementation: the Flemish case

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Introduction

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Belgian Communities – Inhabitants of a Language Area

  • Flemish Community

(+/- 6.000.000 people)

  • French Community

(+/- 4.000.000 people)

  • German-speaking Community

(+/- 75.000 people)

Children’s rights indicators from theory to implementation: the Flemish case

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Flemish Action Plan on children’s rights

  • 2011 – 2014
  • 1 of the priorities: Coordination and indicators
  • “The coordinating administration (youth) works, in cooperation

with the research support service of the Flemish Government, on a basic set of core indicators regarding children’s rights at the Flemish level (a ‘Flemish children’s rights monitor’) by the end of 2013 […]” (Flemish Government, 2011: 20, own translation)

  • KeKi 2012 theme: children’s rights indicators

! KeKi does not develop indicators

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KeKi’s study

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What are children’s rights indicators?

  • Definition?
  • children’s rights indicators vs. monitoring indicators
  • structure, process and outcome indicators
  • indicators versus data

=> concept-driven vs. data-driven approach

=> interpretation of data: not a task for researchers (?)

“ a children’s rights indicator is a specific indication, based on particular data, of the extent to which a well defined right of children is being realised, starting from an explicitly demarcated normative framework”

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Critical reflections

  • Fundamental critiques:
  • Technologization of social debate

=> concern of civil society and policy => indicators as food for social debate => Attention for multidimensionality of children’s rights

  • Role of the expert
  • Tokenism

=>concern of civil society and policy => what is the cost?

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Critical reflections

  • Methodological challenges:
  • Limitations of numbers

=>official and self-report data => centralize official data and broaden self-report data

  • Underrepresentation of qualitative research (E.g. Nairn,

Duffy, Sweet & Swieckica, 2011 / Ipsos Mori institute)

  • Participation

=> ownership of children and youth => involvement of civil society

  • Interregional comparability

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KeKi’s recommendations

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KeKi’s recommendations

  • General

1. Distinguish between indicators and data 2. First develop the indicators, then gather the data 3. Strengthen awareness about the limitations of indicators

  • Development of indicators

4. Distinguish between ‘children’s rights indicators’ and ‘monitoring indicators’ 5. Distinguish between ‘structure’, ‘process’ and ‘outcome’ indicators 6. Pay attention to positive evolutions 7. Create a participatory process 8. Create long term stability in the indicators 9. Pursue interregional comparability

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KeKi’s recommendations

  • Filling in indicators (data)
  • 10. Use – as much as possible – existing data
  • 11. New research: involve children and youth from socially

vulnerable groups

  • 12. New research: also invest in qualitative, interpretative

research

  • 13. New research: also invest in projects that use a child-friendly

methodology

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The Flemish Government’s approach

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The Flemish Government’s approach: description

  • Project team (3 government members) develops methodology with

a specific input from feedback group

  • Feedback group consists of interested stakeholders from the

children’s rights field (practice/civil society)

  • So far, the following steps have been taken

1. First meeting of feedback group: open brainstorm. Which indicators should be included in the children’s rights monitor? 2. Second meeting of feedback group: discussion. Which indicators should be kept? 3. Third meeting of feedback group: discussion of selection

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The Flemish Government approach: evaluation

  • Strong participation of civil society:

– shows great concern for input from practice/civil society – is in line with recommendation nr. 7: ‘Create a participatory process’ – voice of children & youth not directly involved

  • Inspiration in Dutch children’s rights monitor and adjustment

towards concluding observations allows this instrument to be shaped within an international framework

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The Flemish Government approach: evaluation

  • ‘Bottom-up’ approach:

– Strong participation from stakeholders – Lack of clear normative framework: ‘wish list’ of participants? – Non-representative: over-representation of professional domains of participants?

  • No clear distinction between data and indicators (≠

recommendation 1)

  • Data-driven approach
  • No clarity about goal of monitor:

– Broad view on children’s rights in Flanders?

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– Focus on ‘filling gaps’ in existing data?

  • Methodology so far resulted in fragmented compilation of

indicators

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Conclusion

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Conclusion

  • Positive intentions: - efforts to follow up children’s rights

implementation

  • much attention for concerns and advice

from civil society

  • A more structured approach would have entailed a more

comprehensive set of indicators Developing indicators is difficult, but the indicator developing process can be valuable as well: it can start a dynamic towards a more evidence-based policy

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Questions?

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Thank you

Hanne Op de Beeck Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre Hanne.opdebeeck@keki.be