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Building a Child Friendly City

CFC BUILDING BLOCKS
  1. 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

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

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

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

  5. 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

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

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

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

  9. 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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