Monitoring government budgets to advance child rights - A guide to NGOs
[2003 September 8]

This guide is about how to monitor government budgets as a means to advance child rights. It has been written with two categories of readers in mind, both within the NGO sector:
• The guide aims to assist people who plan to conduct their own research on
• Government’s budgeting for children. For these target readers, the handbook offers research support and practical guidance on how to use child budget analysis to generate information that can be used to advance child rights.
• The guide is also intended as an information resource for child rights activists to use budget information to reinforce their advocacy work. For these target readers, the handbook provides insights into the different types of information that can be generated through child budget analysis.
 
The guide thus facilitates and encourages meaningful interaction and strategic alignment between the work of budget analysts and child rights activists in the NGO sector.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License

 

DownloadsCover
cover.pdf

Table of Content
prelim.pdf

Part I - Introduction to the budget and child rights
Chapter 1: The budget
part1.pdf

Part I - Introduction to the budget and child rights
Chapter 2: Child rights
part1b.pdf

Part II - Developing a research framework for a child budget study
Chapter 3: Pegging out the research terrain
part2a.pdf

Part II - Developing a research framework for a child budget study
Chapter 4: Setting research questions
part2b.pdf

Part III - Basic methods for budget analysis aimed at advancing child rights
Chapter 5: Profiling child poverty
part3a.pdf

Part III - Basic methods for budget analysis aimed at advancing child rights
Chapter 6: Analysing programme existence and design
part3b.pdf

Part III - Basic methods for budget analysis aimed at advancing child rights
Chapter 7: Analysing budget allocations to a child rights programme
part3c.pdf

Part III - Basic methods for budget analysis aimed at advancing child rights
Chapter 8: Analysing budget implementation and service delivery in a child rights programme
part3d.pdf

Part IV - Information dissemination
Chapter 9: Developing an effective dissemination strategy
part4a.pdf

Appendix I
Examples of CBU research studies aimed at advancing child rights in South Africa
appendix.pdf

Appendix II
Definition of key concepts on the budget, economics and child rights
appendix2.pdf