Increased Accountability of ASEAN and SAARC for the Realization of Children’s Right to Protection ASEAN : The Association of Southeast Asian Nations SAARC: South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation

Advocacy targeting Regional Bodies (ASEAN and SAARC) To increase the ACCOUNTABILITY of ASEAN and SAARC for the REALIZATION of Children’s Right to Protection Advocacy targeting Regional Bodies (ASEAN and SAARC) Policy Changes on VAC and CSA/CSEC Through CSO’s Advocacy / Capacity Strengthening CSA : Child Sexual Abuse CSEC: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children CSO : Civil Society Organisation VAC : Violence Against Children

Plan Asia Regional Office CSA/ CSEC/ VAC CSOs South East Asia RPA on VAC ACWC Plan Asia Regional Office SAIEVAC South Asia RPA on CSA/CSEC NORAD / NNO SIDA / SNO ACWC: ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children NNO : Plan Norway Office RPA : Regional Plan of Action SNO : Plan Sweden Office SAIEVAC: South Asia Initiative for Ending Violence against Children

Specific objectives PLAN CRCA NACGs Increase the capacities of CRC Asia and NACGs to advocate for improved child protection policies and programmes of ACWC and SAIEVAC / SAARC PLAN Influence ACWC and related ASEAN sectoral bodies to strengthen policies and programmes that promote child rights and gender justice and protection children from all form of VAC CRCA Reinforce the alignment of the SAARC environment with UNCRC and OPs to address CSA/CSEC, taking into account gender equality NACGs NACG : National Action and Coordinating Group Against Violence against Women and Children OP : Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child UNCRC: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Advocacy Targets ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children National Action and Coordinating Group Against Violence against Women and Children South Asia Initiative for Ending Violence Against Children (http://asean.org/) http://www.saievac.org http://www.saievac.org/nacg-national-action-and-coordination-group/

Key Advocacy Targets and Agencies CSOs ACWC SAIEVAC

Implementing Areas South Asia (8 countries) South East Asia

TIMEFRAME and FUNDING SOURCE Start-up: June 2015 2015 MFA Finland SIDA NORAD 2016 2017 2018 SIDA (Bridging Year) 2019 MFA: Minister of Foreign Affairs

Key Activities Plan CRCA NACGs Regional Trainings (e.g. Advocacy Strategising, Disability Inclusion in Child Protection and Advancing Gender Equality) Annual Project Progress Review Meeting Project website (www.civilsocietyasia.org) Overall Project Management and Reporting CRCA CSOs/Members’ Capacity Building Partnership Strengthening Public Awareness Raising Advocacy and Networking NACGs Strengthening Commitment of NACGs to Advocate for Policy Changes Increasing NACGs Functionality Promoting Children’s Participation Making Stronger Basis of Evidences

Advocacy for Policy Development / Changes SAIEVAC developed the working draft for the Elimination of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation including Online Exploitation in consultations with CSOs. ASEAN adopted RPA on VAC in 2015, which included CSOs’ inputs to ensure its alignment with UNCRC and OPs.

Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2015 Regional Training on Advocacy Strategising and Annual Meeting 02-05 November 2015 | Bangkok, Thailand

Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2016 Regional Training on Disability Inclusion in Child Protection and Annual Meeting 03-07 October 2016 | Bangkok, Thailand

Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2017 Advancing Gender Equality Training and Annual Meeting 02-06 October 2017 | Bangkok, Thailand

Strengthening Civil Society Organisations Supporting NACG Sri Lanka 13 December 2017 | Colombo, Sri Lanka

Plan ARO - Field Visit and Technical Support Meeting with Hong Kong Committee on Children's Rights and Plan Hong Kong National Office, December 2017

ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN ACWC’s Baseline Study on Child Participation in ASEAN and Member States Dialogue Meetings with ACWC Researchers Meeting January 2017 Meetings with ACWC Philippines and CWC July 2017 Baseline Study updating Ethical Considerations

ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN National Consultation of the ACWC with CSOs on the Implementation of the ASEAN RPAs on EVAW and EVAC 19 December 2016 | Yangon, Myanmar  EVAW: The End Violence Against Women Coalition

ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN AICHR Seminar on Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights in ASEAN 03-04 November 2016 | Singapore AICHR:  ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights

ENGAGEMENTS WITH ASEAN & UN SRSG VAC Dialogue meeting of children and CSOs with UN SRSG VAC 06 June 2017 | Manila, Philippines UN SRSG: United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against children

PROMOTION Popularization of research and studies through social media

PROMOTION Reprinting of child-friendly materials

POLICY ADVOCACY & CAMPAIGNS Production of Advocacy Tool Publication: December 2016 Launch: July 2017

Capacity Building Child Participation Training for NACG Members In December, 2016 |Sri Lanka, Colombo

Children’s Participation Regional Children’s Consultation On The SAARC Regional Strategy on Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation (Including Online Safety) 12 - 14 December, 2016 Sri Lanka, Colombo

Commitment Regional Strategy on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation including Online Safety on 19-20 October 2016 | Bangkok

National Plan of Action on VAC WAY FORWARD Advocacy National Plan of Action on VAC Finalise RAP on CSA/CSEC

Children’s Participation WAY FORWARD (cont’d) Children’s Participation Developing A Charter of Demands ASEAN Children's network face-to-face meetings

WAY FORWARD (cont’d) Capacity Building on Fund Raising Child Right Situation Analysis Workshop

Project WEBSITE (www.civilsocietyasia.org) There are almost 80 publications available online and 12 of them are child-friendly version.

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