Executive Summary
Universalia Management Group Ltd. and Child Frontiers are pleased to present this revised report on the Evaluation of the Child Protection Monitoring and Response System (CPMRS) in Thailand for the period 2006-2012.
The CPMRS project, launched by UNICEF in 2006 in association with key government and university partners, was intended to develop an integrated child protection system in the six tsunami-affected provinces in southern Thailand. The project was expected to: increase public awareness of children’s rights to protection; track the magnitude of child protection issues at local, provincial and national levels in Thailand; and provide adequate response mechanisms for identifying children in need of special protection and for delivering suitable child protection services as early as possible.
UNICEF Thailand, in association with the Royal Thai Government (RTG), contracted the Universalia Management Group Limited (hereafter “Universalia”) and its associate Child Frontiers to conduct an evaluation of the CPMRS and to provide an overview of the current child protection system in Thailand. Thammasat University School of Social Work was contracted to support the field data collection and analysis.
The objectives of the evaluation, which were revised in consultation with UNICEF Thailand during the Inception Phase, were:
1. To assess the actual and potential contribution of CPMRS to the national child protection system;
2. To determine the extent to which CPMRS has met its objectives;
3. To determine the relevance, efficiency and sustainability of the CPMRS as an approach to strengthen the child protection system, as well as the extent to which it has incorporated gender, human rightsbased and equity-focused approaches; and
4. To provide recommendations for the refinement and potential scaling up of the CPMRS approach to the national level.
The evaluation is intended to provide input to RTG and UNICEF decision making on how to strategically advance the national child protection agenda and strengthen current systems towards a comprehensive and more holistic national child protection system.
The intended primary users of the evaluation are the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS) and other relevant Ministries of the RTG, such as the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), Ministry of the Interior (MoI) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), as well as the UNICEF Thailand Country Office (TCO).
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