Leave No Child Out training

Every country in the region – from Estonia to Romania, from Kyrgyzstan to Poland – has pledged before the world to uphold the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

This historic treaty marks a new status for children and youth. Gone is the notion of children as the property of parents or “mini” adults not yet ready to participate in society. The CRC recognizes that all children are born with fundamental freedoms and the inherent rights of all human beings – civic, political, economic, social and cultural entitlements that belong to them as surely as their name.

The “Leave No Child Out” project is co-financed by the European Commission and implemented by UNICEF in co-operation with the RNC, the South-East European Child Rights Action Network (SEECRAN), the International Save the Children Alliance and the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Over 2003-2004, the project will seek to create an environment in which State and Non-State actors increasingly include children’s rights in democratic reform processes and strengthen the implementation of children’s rights for all children in the CEE/CIS region. Its target groups are NGOs, key government staff opinion-makers and children and young people.

The main outcomes planned for the project are the following:
- a training and advocacy manual on children’s rights that can be used by any agency or body that wishes to build its own capacity in child rights work or to support capacity-building by others;
- the identification of a 'pool' of trainers from the 18 project countries who will be involved in training government and civil society representatives to play a more active role in promoting children's rights (click here for more information on this network

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- increased capacity of stakeholders and duty-bearers to implement the CRC and achieve the goals of the UN Special Session on Children;
- improved capacity of the RNC, SEECRAN, the NGO Group for the CRC, Save the Children and UNICEF to collaborate in the region as part of the evolving Global Movement for Children.