Child Friendly Cities
Child Friendly Cities

A Child Friendly City is a local system of good governance
committed to fulfilling children's rights
UNICEF

Building Blocks


CFC BUILDING BLOCKS
  • Children's participation: promoting children's active involvement in issues that affect them; listening to their views and taking them into consideration in decision-making processes

  • A child friendly legal framework: ensuring legislation, regulatory frameworks and procedures which consistently promote and protect the rights of all children

  • A city-wide Children's Rights Strategy: developing a detailed, comprehensive strategy or agenda for building a Child Friendly City, based on the Convention

  • A Children's Rights Unit or coordinating mechanism: developing permanent structures in local government to ensure priority consideration of children's perspective

  • Child impact assessment and evaluation: ensuring that there is a systematic process to assess the impact of law, policy and practice on children - in advance, during and after implementation

  • A children's budget: ensuring adequate resource commitment and budget analysis for children

  • A regular State of the City's Children Report: ensuring sufficient monitoring and data collection on the state of children and their rights

  • Making children's rights known: ensuring awareness of children's rights among adults and children

  • Independent advocacy for children: supporting non-governmental organisations and developing independent human rights institutions - children's ombudspeople or commissioners for children - to promote children's rights.



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