Data and Monitoring Tools

Monitoring and research are essential processes in ensuring the relevance and effectiveness of programs, and the scope and type of service provision. They are integral components of analysis, strategic planning, and implementation for government and non-governmental organisations seeking to effect change, support or provide services.

Monitoring is an on-going process of gathering information e.g. statistics and tracking inputs and outputs, enabling the evaluation of what is working, and providing a mechanism for accountability. Combined with research, it facilitates the planning of improved resource allocation and service delivery. Research and monitoring can also help raise awareness of the gravity of a situation, both nationally and internationally. It should help convince those who are putting time, energy and money into supporting programmes that their efforts are worthwhile and should be continued.

Results of monitoring and evaluation should be fed directly back into programmes to correct weaknesses and improve performance. The outcomes of research and monitoring should also help improve child care policies. Results can be used to inform future programme design, prompting a decision to replicate an effective intervention in other areas or to discontinue an intervention because it is expensive and not making any beneficial changes.

The literature in this section provides statistical data on vulnerable children from a wide range of sources, as well as guidance and examples of data collection, indicators, analysis, and research methods regarding issues relating to vulnerable children.

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UNICEF Definition of 'Orphan'

UNICEF Press Centre, 01 Aug 2008

Examines the importance of clarifying global understanding of the word and the implications of such.

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UNICEF Child Protection Strategy - Arabic

UNICEF, 07 Jun 2008

Outlines the contributions of UNICEF to national and international efforts to fulfill children’s right to protection

UNICEF Child Protection Strategy - English

UNICEF, 07 Jun 2008

Outlines the contributions of UNICEF to national and international efforts to fulfill children’s right to protection.

UNICEF Child Protection Strategy - Russian

UNICEF, 07 Jun 2008

Outlines the contributions of UNICEF to national and international efforts to fulfil children’s right to protection

Estrategia de protección de la infancia del UNICEF

UNICEF, 06 Jun 2008

Describe las contribuciones de UNICEF a los esfuerzos nacionales e internacionales para cumplir el derecho de los niños a la protección.

Strategic Analysis on Civil Registration and Children in the Context of HIV and AIDS

Isabel de Bruin-Cardoso & Ruth Mampane, IATT Working Group on Children Affected by HIV and AIDS, 01 Jun 2008

Examines dynamics between achievements in universal birth registration and enhanced protection of children.

Beyond men pikin: Improving Understanding of Post-Conflict Child Fostering in Sierra Leone

Lacey Andrews Gale, 27 Apr 2008

Examines the challenges posed in monitoring and ensuring child protection in informal and formal fostering in post-conflict areas.

Special Series - UN Draft Guidlelines for the Appropriate Use and Conditions of Alternative Care for Children

International Social Service, 01 Feb 2008

International Social Service’s first segment of the series addresses the historical background and the principles and objectives of the Guidelines

Orphanhood and Living Arrangements of the Child in Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank, 03 Jan 2008

Using household survey data from 21 countries in Africa, this study examines trends in orphanhood and living arrangements, and the links between the two.

Keeping Children Safe: How to Implement the Standards

Keeping Children Safe Coalition, 2008

The second tool in the Keeping Children Safe Toolkit which is a resource pack that provides guidance and activities to organisations ing meeting established standards