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1 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

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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 (

6 Key Advocacy Targets and Agencies
CSOs ACWC SAIEVAC

7 Implementing Areas South Asia (8 countries) South East Asia

8 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

9 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 ( 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

10 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.

11 Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2015
Regional Training on Advocacy Strategising and Annual Meeting November 2015 | Bangkok, Thailand

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

13 Regional Training and Annual Review Meeting 2017
Advancing Gender Equality Training and Annual Meeting October 2017 | Bangkok, Thailand

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

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

16 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

17 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

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

19 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

20 PROMOTION Popularization of research and studies through social media

21 PROMOTION Reprinting of child-friendly materials

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30 THANK YOU!

31 Questions and Answers

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