Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Resource Mobilization in Low-Income Countries. Summary

James R. Himes and Diana Saltarelli

Innocenti Studies from UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre

Abstract: This Innocenti Study focuses on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as it relates to children’s basic economic and social rights in developing countries—in terms of the obligations placed by the Convention on both States and the international community. A key proposition is that working effectively for children’s rights involves many of the same strategies and implementation methods that have proved successful in numerous development efforts worldwide. The rights approach is inherently more concerned with issues of equity, non-discrimination and social justice, but it cannot afford to neglect the challenge of resource mobilization. And in this regard our conception of societal ‘resources’ must be extended beyond the limited finances of governments to encompass human, technological, cultural and organizational capabilities.

Keywords: child development; children's rights; convention on the rights of the child; economic and social development; implementation of the crc; Developing Countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 K33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?ProductID=4 Full text (application/pdf)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?ProductID=4 Compressed (application/zip)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?ProductID=4 Low resolution - full text (application/pdf)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?ProductID=4 Compressed low resolution (application/zip)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucf:innstu:innstu96/1

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.unicef-ir ... sert.sql?ProductID=4
The price is Many older IRC publications are free of charge. However, some series are priced (Report Card, Social Monitor, Regional Monitoring Report). For details on this and the cost of despatch, according to quantity and destination, please visit the website www.unicef-irc.org.

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Innocenti Studies from UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
Address: Piazza SS. Annunziata, 12 50122
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Patrizia Faustini ().