It highlighted the need to invest in children by Governments, stating that investment in children is a, accepted best guarantee for achieving equitable and sustainable human “...widely development and a fundamental requirement for social and economic priorities of any government” The Committee went onto recommend that the Government, make children a priority in the budgetary allocations as a means to ensure the “a) highest return of the limited available resources; and make investment in children visible in the State budget through detailed compilation of the resources allocated to them; b) consider using rights-based budget monitoring and analysis, as well as child impact assessments on how investments in any sector may serve best interests of the child” “the The Committee on the Rights of the Child has recognised the importance of holding States to account with regard to their obligations to invest in children to deliver their rights under the Convention. The Committee is currently working on expanding on what is meant by the General Measures of Implementation of the Convention and is taking forward work with a view to drafting a new General Comment on public expenditure or public investment in infancy and childhood to implement the rights of the Convention. It is proposed that this General Comment will include indicators to measure the extent to which States are meeting their obligations. In addition, the Human Rights Council has recgonised the importance of investing in children and has adopted a resolution, in the rights “Investment of the child” which affirms the high economic and social returns of investment in children and stresses the importance of resource allocation and spending for the promotion and protection of children’s rights. Discussions with Departmental Officials In providing advice to the DE on the CRED Addendum it was very helpful for NICCY staff to meet with DE staff on 22nd January 2016 to discuss some of the current issues relating to the CRED policy. NICCY understands that the purpose of the CRED Addendum is to ensure that the good work already achieved through the operation of CRED over the last
It highlighted the need to invest in children by Governments, stating that investment in children is a, “...widely accepted best guarantee for achieving equitable and sustainable human development and a fundamental requirement for social and economic priorities of any government” The Committee went onto recommend that the Government, “a) make children a priority in the budgetary allocations as a means to ensure the highest return of the limited available resources; and make investment in children visible in the State budget through detailed compilation of the resources allocated to them; b) consider using rights-based budget monitoring and analysis, as well as child impact assessments on how investments in any sector may serve “the best interests of the child” The Committee on the Rights of the Child has recognised the importance of holding States to account with regard to their obligations to invest in children to deliver their rights under the Convention. The Committee is currently working on expanding on what is meant by the General Measures of Implementation of the Convention and is taking forward work with a view to drafting a new General Comment on public expenditure or public investment in infancy and childhood to implement the rights of the Convention. It is proposed that this General Comment will include indicators to measure the extent to which States are meeting their obligations. In addition, the Human Rights Council has recgonised the importance of investing in children and has adopted a resolution, “Investment in the rights of the child” which affirms the high economic and social returns of investment in children and stresses the importance of resource allocation and spending for the promotion and protection of children’s rights. Discussions with Departmental Officials In providing advice to the DE on the CRED Addendum it was very helpful for NICCY staff to meet with DE staff on 22nd January 2016 to discuss some of the current issues relating to the CRED policy. NICCY understands that the purpose of the CRED Addendum is to ensure that the good work already achieved through the operation of CRED over the last
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