A project carried out for the Directorate General for the Rights of Children and Adolescents, the Spanish State Secretariat for Social Rights, the Spanish Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030.
UNICEF’s Regional Office in Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) funds this project to guide the Spanish action towards the European Strategy on the Rights of the Child and the European Child Guarantee.
The project determines the priorities to combat child poverty and includes related services in education, early childhood education, health, nutrition, and housing. It also promotes territorial equity and protective, equal, inclusive and participatory environments.
Technical assistance for the design of the National Action Plan to implement the European Child Guarantee:
Adaptation of the priorities communicated in the recommendation of the Council of the European Union to the Spanish reality.
Consulting management with service providers, child rights activists and child protection and welfare experts.
Priority setting and connection to financial tools.
The National Coordination of Child Guarantee at the Spanish Directorate General for the Rights of Children and Adolescents, works together with the Spanish High Commissioner to Combat Child Poverty in this project. Technical inputs have been obtained for the Action Plan for the Child Guarantee development process. Additionally, the project has generated content to support national actors through the inter-ministerial and territorial governance mechanism.
In particular, it has consolidated the following points for the Action Plan:
1. Tackle the needs of children, in particular, of those with specific disadvantages and barriers to access to services.
2. Start from the results of the previous Deep Dive Analysis taking also in consideration existing policies, programmes, services and local level testing of service models and interventions.
3. Boost the participation of key stakeholders, including children, families and service providers.
4. Include a clear monitoring and evaluation framework respecting the budget and the timeframe.
“It is an honour to contribute to specific measures for the protection of children and adolescents and therefore, to ensure their access to global services in the common European framework, which at the same time differs depending on the level (national or regional).“
The project supports the drafting of the Plan, which covers three thematic areas with their respective objectives and measures:
In addition to the definition of priorities, it provides:
A diagnosis of vulnerable children and an enumeration of frameworks related to fundamental children’s rights.
A system of governance and participation in the eight-year development
A framework of indicators.
In a complex multi-actor process, working with Fresno grants security. The combination of attention to detail and a strategic vision simplifies processes to what truly matters.
Directorate General for the Rights of Children and Adolescents
