Monitoring Government Budgets to Advance Child Rights: A Guide for NGOs

This guide is about how to monitor governments' budgets as a means to advance child rights. It has a specific focus on how to use budget analysis as a tool for advancing child rights. The guide aims to assist people who would like 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 who would like to use budget information to reinforce their advocacy work. For these target readers, the book provides insight into the different types of information that can be generated through child budget analysis.

Charpters covered include:

• Analysing budget allocations to a child rights programme
• Information dissemination
• Developing a research framework for a child budget study
• Basic methods for budget analysis aimed at advancing child rights

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