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State of Palestine

Indicators of the Rightsof the Palestinian Child

December 2012

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State of Palestine

December 2012

Indicators of the Rightsof the Palestinian Child

Education

Protection

Disability

Child Participation

Health

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This document is based on the Palestinian National Authority Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Occupied Palestinian Territory which was issued in December 2010 and stressed on the importance of developing separate indicators based on the rights of the child and not only their welfare. Palestinian children constitute almost 50% of the population, so developing such indicators will contribute to the developing of statistics on the Palestinian child, analyzing the situation of the Palestinian children’s lives regardless of where they live or their health and socio-economic conditions, and identifying the gaps in their receiving quality services. This will, definitely, enrich the process of drawing potential national policies and plans to enable the Palestinian children reach their maximum and ensure their receiving of their rights in all aspects based on realistic, reliable, and comparable information, data, and evidences.

To quote, please refer to the document as follows:Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child, 2012, Ramallah - Palestine

For Correspondence:Palestinian Central Bureau of StatisticsP. O. Box: 1647Ramallah – PalestineTel: (972/970) 2 298 2700Fax: (972/970) 2 298 2710Email: [email protected]: http://www.pcbs.gov.ps

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This document was prepared with the financial and technical support of Save the Children, and with the participation of all Palestinian organizations

We would like to extend our gratitude to everyone who contributed to preparing this document and developing the indicators, and also those who participated in the national and internal workshops from all the concerned ministries, civil society organizations and UNRWA, especially the Sectoral Committee Coordinators:

Khalid Abu Khalid - Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Faten Abu Qare’ - Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Dr. Waleed Al-Khatib – Ministry of Health

Dr. Jawad Al-Bitar - Ministry of Health

Dr. Kawther Al-Mughrabi - Ministry of Social Affairs

Hanaa’ Al-Qaimary – Ministry of Social Affairs

Sonya Helou - Ministry of Social Affairs

Ziad Amro - Ministry of Social Affairs

Raed Nazzal - Ministry of Social Affairs

Munjid Suleiman – Ministry of Education

Amal Hammad - Ministry of Education

Waleed Mousa - Higher Council of Youth and Sports

Fadwa Al-Shae’r – Ministry of Interior

Mohammad Daraghmeh – Ministry of Culture

Ma’moun Al-Odeh – Ministry of Labour

Dr. Cairo Arafat- Save the Children

Lubna Iskander- Save the Children

Iman Barghouthi- Save the Children

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PrefaceThe main purpose of this document is to identify and present a list of national child rights- based indicators for Palestine, based on standardized definitions, and specific sources of information, that allow for routine data collection and updates. This was achieved through direct dialogue with partner institutions to identify their needs and priorities in the field of statistical data and indicators implementation. This document sums up the efforts taken to guarantee the necessary requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC); which is a vital tool protecting the rights of the child at the local, national and international level.

We, at the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), have the responsibility of ensuring the availability of all official statistics to reflect the reality of the Palestinian child through our annual child statistics report, which is responsive to the rights of the Palestinian child, and is in harmony with the UNCRC and the Palestinian Child Law (PCL). This document clarifies our role in implementing the UNCRC by making available all the information needed, and most importantly, to highlight the indicators that are not currently available, and the efforts needed to collect them on a periodic basis, to provide a better understanding of the real situation of the Palestinian children’s rights.

We hope that this document will guide the government programs that target policies, practices and available services for the Palestinian community, young and old, to live peacefully in dignity and freedom, especially Palestinian Children. Our children constitute almost half of the Palestinian community. The investment in children will allow children and the community to continue prospering through guaranteeing their rights and better opportunities.

Ola Awad

President of PCBS

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Table of Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................7

Methodology ..........................................................................................................................................................................9

Role of the PCBS and the partner institutions .................................................................................. 10

What are Child Rights-Based Indicators? ............................................................................................. 13

The importance of developing child rights-based indicators ............................................... 13

Criteria of good indicators .................................................................................................................................... 16

Types of indicators ........................................................................................................................................................ 18

General qualitative indicators ............................................................................................................................ 20

a. Legislative framework ...........................................................................21

b. Availability of information, analysis and dissemination ........................22

c. Policy and planning framework ............................................................23

d. Monitoring and evaluation ....................................................................24

e. Awareness raising, capacity development and partnership building ..... 24

Priorities of national indicators ........................................................................................................................ 26

Gaps and obstacles ........................................................................................................................................................ 49

Recommendations ......................................................................................................................................................... 50

Way forward ........................................................................................................................................................................ 51

Annexes:

- Annex 1: List of all indicators that were discussedduring the workshops ................................................................................................................ 53

- Annex 2: List of invitees and participants in thenational and internal workshops .................................................................................... 73

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IntroductionThis document represents the Palestinian Government’s efforts to meet the needs of Palestinian children and is a confirmation of the State of Palestine’s (SP) commitment towards implementing the Convention of the Rights of the Child and adopting it as a binding and valid legal document by which all practices that target Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territories should be guided. It is based on the Palestinian Basic Law, Palestinian Child Law (7) of 2004, and the Amended Child Law. The SP prepared a report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)1 with the participation of governmental and non-governmental organizations concerned with child issues. The report entailed comprehensive information on the measures taken by the PNA to implement the rules of the agreement, and stressed on the most important achievements and the efforts made to improve the quality of life of children and identify the obstacles that prevent children from fulfilling their potential and ensuring their right to survival, growth, life and participation.

The report emphasized the importance of developing and monitoring children’s rights based indicators with clear roles and responsibilities for organizations. This is to assist decision makers and planners to identify gaps and to base policies on facts and evidence; which will ensure timely and quality services for the intended beneficiaries. This document on the indicators of the rights of the Palestinian child forms part of the policy documents that the government developed to serve all governmental and non-governmental institutions in monitoring the implementation of child rights in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The CRC and its key principles of non-discrimination, participation, accountability and the best interests of the child formed the basic foundation and starting point towards a comprehensive process of consultation and agreement on national children’s rights indicators.

Article four of the CRC states that “state parties shall undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative and other measures for the implementation of the rights recognized in the present Convention”. This includes self monitoring and assessment as a commitment from the government and also independent monitoring through parliamentary committees and NGOs.

General comment (5) of the child rights committee stipulates the importance of collecting and analyzing sufficient and reliable data on children to determine discrimination and disparity in realizing the rights of child; and to implement the indicators on the national level. Guiding principles also call for preparation and submission of periodical reports, and also for collecting categorized statistics and gathering information that cover all the aspects of the convention. In addition,

1 The Palestinian National Authority Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. PCBS, December, 2010 with the support of Save the Children

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evaluating collected data and assessing progress in implementing the convention in order to identify problems and inform development policies related to children.

Taking into consideration that the CRC and its optional protocols are a continuously developing set of documents, developing indicators based on the rights of the child is a continuous process that calls for us to stop and think if we are proceeding on the right path and asking the right questions to properly identify the gaps and marginalized groups. This will ensure we take the right decisions and direct resources based on reliable and adequate information in order to build an independent Palestinian State on strong foundations.

To address the issue effectively, there must be political will. Knowing that many countries that enjoy political stability and have adequate human and financial resources have not fulfilled the whole spectrum of child rights, the SP is making efforts at both the governmental and civic level to develop and institutionalize child right indicators, despite the unstable political and economic situation. This does not mean that we, as a state, should stand aside and do nothing with the excuse of not having enough resources or due to the current political situation. On the contrary, work should be done gradually, persistently, with national efforts, and with cooperation and coordination of all concerned parties towards the development, institutionalization and continuous review of these indicators on the national level as the most effective process to reveal systemic gaps and to inform the allocation and utilization of resources; hence strengthening the SP, Palestinian society and its institutions..

This document aims at developing indicators that are based on the rights of the child to serve three levels of intervention:

Include a number of indicators that are based on the rights of the child in different sectors (health, education, protection, disability and participation), which were selected by the Palestinian governmental institutions in the National Monitoring System, developed by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), in cooperation with Palestinian related governmental institutions.

Develop the indicators of every sector with the relevant Palestinian ministries based on the rights of the child to enable the SP and its institutions to prepare and submit annual reports, prepare national plans and to monitor and evaluate progress.

Develop the internal technical indicators of services provided by line ministries including specific details on who will receive the services and their current conditions. This will help in developing comprehensive forms on cases of children and their management, and follow up through a unified national system.

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Methodology• The CRC is considered the starting point of this work as the work started based

on the results and recommendations of the Palestinian National Authority Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Occupied Palestinian Territory2. This report found that there was limited consistency in the types of indicators used to measure child well being and that there were even fewer indicators that actually addressed children’s rights and/or violations.

• The research team on the rights of the child from Save the Children and UNICEF, in coordination with PCBS and the relevant ministries, collected and reviewed a large group of available indicators that related to all the items of the CRC on the national level, based on the indicators stated in the national surveys, reports on child’s statistics; reports, plans, and strategies of the official Palestinian institutions and ministries, work that was accomplished previously in 2000 by the National Plan of Action Secretariat for Children with PCBS; review of the records, files and data centres and bases in the ministries of concern. Indicators that were developed on the international level were also reviewed through the revision of the documents related to the indicators that are based on the rights of the child and the international experience in this regard, in addition to the implementation manual of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which was developed by UNICEF, health indicators related to the World Health Organization, etc. to enrich the national indicators and harmonize with a rights based approach and in accordance with the Palestinian context.

• Based on that, a list of almost all the possible indicators of the rights of the child in the fields of health, education, participation, disability and protection (poverty, violence, negligence and mistreatment, orphans, child labour, exploitation, etc.) had been drafted to discuss on the national level.

• The PCBS in cooperation with relevant line ministries worked together to exchange information, experience and opinions on the subject of indicators and discuss the first draft. It was agreed that every ministry meet internally and meet with its primary partners in every sector to discuss the indicators of the sector and prioritize the indicators on the national level. This list formed the first stage of indicators that needed to be developed, its definitions and means of its measurements unified, the timeframe needed for that, the proper frequency of measurement on the national level and work to list them in the national policies, plans and regulations (institutionalizing them) and consequently unifying the language among all Palestinian institutions upon discussing the indicators on the

2 The Palestinian National Authority Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, December – 2010 with the support of Save the Children UK

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rights of the child. The detailed list should remain within the procedure manual if the ministries of concern desire to add a new group of indicators and develop them with the partners at a later stage in the coming years (Please review Appendix 1).

• In 25 April 2012, Save the Children, UNICEF and PCBS organized a national workshop to discuss the initial indicators and agree on drafting the national priorities of the indicators of rights of child, their details, measurement methodology and classifications. The workshop was attended by representatives from the governmental sector, civil society organizations, private sector, academics and others concerned with the issues of child and human rights. The workshop was followed by a number of other workshops and internal meetings within specific ministries of concern to revise the list of the indicators of the rights of the child in every sector. Please review Appendix 2 for more information on the institutions that were invited to attend the workshops and who participated in the internal and public discussion.

The role of the PCBS and partner institutionsWhat is the role of PCBS, ministries of concern, civil society, private sector and UNRWA in the development process of indicators based on the rights of the child?

PCBS is considered, as per the Law on State Statistics # (4) of 2000, the national and official body in charge of the overall responsibility on data and statistics collection inside the country and aims at the development and strengthening of the official Palestinian statistical system that is based on legal foundations that regulates the process of data collection, use, storage, analysis and publication for statistical purposes in coordination with the ministries of concern and UNRWA in the fields of health (Ministry of Health), education (Ministry of Education), family and individuals with a disability (Ministry of Social Affairs), labour (Ministry of Labour), culture and recreation (Ministry of Culture, the Higher Council for Youth and Sports and Ministry of Education), and other fields through administrative records. It also collects other data on specific subjects on the national level through periodical national surveys and a population census. Despite that, there is no specific clause that assigns PCBS or any other institution with the task of collecting data on the basic rights of children, or more specifically analyzing any such data.

The mission and tasks of PCBS are as follows:1. Develop and strengthen the official Palestinian statistical system that is based on

legal foundations that regulates the process of data collection and use for statistical purposes.

2. Collection, use, storage, analysis and publication of data in coordination with the ministries of concern in the fields of health, education, family and individuals with disability, labour, culture and recreation, and other fields.

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3. Gather information on the cases and statistics of Palestinian children where PCBS started issuing an annual report on statistics on Palestinian children for two consecutive years (1999 – 2000). However, after that period and after the second Intifada, the report ceased to be published and despite that, PCBS still issues an annual report on children including information on health, social and educational development of the children.

4. Make the information needed for comparison and planning purposes available through national surveys and administrative records in the main institutions and ministries.

5. Raise public awareness by providing information through the media and cooperation with universities and other research institutions.

6. Actively participate in building and developing the administrative and central records.

7. Conduct the general population census and others. 3

Ministries of concern are collecting data and monitoring the implementation of their programs in the national plans and the indicators of the designated sector through administrative records, data centres and their monitoring and evaluation departments on the level of directorates, and on the central and national levels where the designated data of each sector is received from all partners in the private and civil sectors, and UNRWA. However, the data is occasionally not received at the right time to submit the reports and it is not detailed, classified or recorded according to the required criteria. The government, represented by its various institutions, submits quarterly and annual periodical reports to the cabinet and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) to monitor its progress and the degree it is implementing its plans and programs, as well as identifying weaknesses in its implementation. The Ministry of Finance also submits detailed information on the allocated budget for every sector; however, it doesn’t allocate a specific budget for children.

3 For more information on the roles and authorities of PCBS, please review the Law of State Statistics # (4) of 2000.

Therefore, if the information was not unified, coherent and/or specific in terms of a timeframe and target group, within certain and unified criteria, and if it doesn’t follow a unified sectoral approach, it will be hard to use it on the national level to identify the gaps, specify responsibilities and accountability, and compare the progress through different interventions and consequently it will be difficult to plan based on confirmed information, evidence and events.

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The following graph represents the vision of the different information resources; governmental, civil society, private sector, UNRWA, international civil society, UN, higher education and research institutions through use of administrative records, surveys, research and studies, and through the children themselves to feed into a national system to collect, analyze and monitor the data:

National indicators (Unified national database to collect and analyze data within PCBS or (within the national monitoring system)).

Surveys Research Administrative Records

Governmental, non-governmental, private sector, UNRWA, international civil society institutions and children

There is a need to specify the role, mandate, responsibility and division of labor between governmental, civil society and private sector agencies addressing children’s issues. The establishment of a National Council for the Child needs to be prioritized and specific terms of reference and mandate be identified taking into consideration other existing institutions like the Palestinian Independent Commission on Human Rights and the High Council for Motherhood and Childhood. This will require a detailed analysis of their roles in gathering, analyzing and using the information based on unified and solid foundations, criteria, and methodologies that flow to a unified body to ensure the thoroughness, creditability, non- duplication, monitoring and analysis of the data properly; especially data and information that constitutes an influence and a source of power from one hand and responsibility on the other hand to take the right decision, direct the national resources according to national priorities, ensure the delivery of services and aids to recipients, and prevent the duplication of programs that do not prove their effectiveness or improperly utilize resources. The proper analysis of information helps in decision making on how to deal with certain issues; either continue with the same methodology or develop new methodologies or ways to deal with such issues.

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What are Child Rights - Based indicators? Most indicators being developed in the OPT and the information gathered tend to be grounded on the basis of the welfare of the child and not on the basis of the rights of the child. In order for the principle of rights - based governance to be achieved in realizing the rights of the child; detailed, creditable and analyzed information and data should be published on the actual conditions in which the children live and in all sectors, the responsibility of all institutions and individuals in realizing the rights of the child in the OPT as stated by the law should be specified, as well as how the principle of children’s participation is reflected, which seeks to cover their best interest, indiscrimination and equality in law, legislation and national policy and plans while taking into consideration the national and local context, children’s point of view, and hearing the voice of children.

The following table represents a comparison between the indicators of welfare and rights:

Indicators of the Rights of the Child Indicators of WelfareReflect the actual situation of children and marginalized groups who cannot access or get services, their locations, the reasons for non-access, and the nature of interaction between the child, state and society in the issues that relate to the child.

Reflect the actual situation of children in general, or the ones who receive the services, state achievements, certain program, or certain need. Welfare based indicators typically address program outcomes and target groups and do not take into consideration those populations that may not be accessing services or programs. So they are a measure of welfare for those receiving services primarily.

Detailed and classified by sex, age, location, time period, socio-economic situation.

Tend to be general in most cases.

Reflect responsibilities and consequently accountability.

Do not reflect responsibilities and consequently accountability.

Emerged from a certain commitment by the state as per national and international laws.

Not necessarily emerged from the law.

Example: Percentage of children not receiving vaccines, reason, their location.

Example: Percentage of children receiving vaccines.

The importance of developing Child Rights - Based indicators• SP is committed to implement the principles of good governance based on

accountability and transparency, therefore, it consider these indicators and monitoring them as a means to ensure the implementation of government’s obligations in the field of the rights of the child, the extent of enforcing the laws or the need to modify them and the impact on the current policies on children; and ensure transparency and accountability based on the specific targets in the national plans, policies and programs.

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• These indicators form a guide for national policy makers to improve the conditions of the child and develop their capabilities to uphold their rights and ensure workers with children and policy and legal regulations and frameworks fulfill their duties, and to mobilize support and solidarity with child - related issues based on evidence, information and data.

• Indicators are considered a monitoring tool of the changes on the level of programs, services and other fields, the extent to which the government implements the different laws and regulations that contribute to the preserving and protection of the rights of the child, and monitor and document the violations of the rights of the child; yet the issue of indicators and data collection requires political will, due to its importance in determining and evaluating the extent to which the government fulfills its responsibilities, effectiveness in managing the public resources, identifying its direction and what’s needed from it, and monitoring that is not only on the level of meeting the basic needs or from a charitable perspective, but also as a natural and earned right. Indicators based on rights are clear and specify the parties responsible to ensure transparency, accountability, monitoring and evaluation of different interventions. Therefore, these indicators should be institutionalized and emerge from the national systems, policies and plans to monitor progress achieved in a program’s implementation to guarantee the rights of the child.

• Indicators are considered a means to agree on the basic priorities (quantity and quality) raised in every sector of child development according to specific criteria which helps in the preparation of national and international reports that are unified, and have the same language on the situation of the rights of the child in the OPT. The criteria of measuring and implementing the rights of the child as well as in preparing the reports related to it are not clear. The information gathering from different parties and by continuously changing criteria on the population groups, definitions, timeframe, age groups, locations, methodology and others led to a huge amount of data that is hard to compare and in most cases doesn’t have a benchmark or base year.

• Specifying the criteria and the presence of detailed and reliable indicators enables us to compare and identify the scope and forms of the progress achieved, evaluate the different interventions and reasons of their success and failures, and identify the gaps and weak spots in the field of the rights of the child to direct the parties responsible towards developing proper policies, mechanisms and strategies of intervention based on detailed facts and evidences, set the plans and procedures needed to protect such rights, and identify what intervention could work based on the available information to achieve the desired goals and target the marginalized groups to achieve social justice and equality to the extent possible.

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• Despite the fact that different ministries mostly develop indicators to help institutions in evaluating the national plans and strategies, identifying gaps, and submitting reports on their achievements or on implementing a program; and most of these surveys depend on external funding and were not yet established as main national surveys, that happens sometimes according to a specific need or request for a certain program , this led to certain indicators being imposed that were based on the type of project funded or on a need by a certain group; thus most of them are getting repeated. Therefore, periodical reports in the field of the rights of the child should be issued in a unified, methodological way and which allows for an understanding of the trends and patterns related to the implementation of the rights of the child in the country, especially given that surveys on children’s access to protection are still rare due to the lack of focus by the donors to support them in this field.

• In general, national surveys conducted by PCBS4 mostly include more information on the violations of the rights than the administrative records as they include all the areas of OPT, benefit from the national census in preparing the sample society. Administrative records currently include information on the ones who receive a certain service (regularity in education, vaccines, birth records, children in dispute with the law, etc.) and do not give any data on children that have no access to such services and why.

So, this document was prepared to be a living document, and these indicators represent drafts to be modified to monitor the situation of the rights of the child and not only their welfare. Therefore, national discussions were based on the importance of agreement and, in some instances, the development of a certain methodology to measure and analyze these indicators based on the “smart” (specific, measurable, accurate, reliable, and time specific) criteria in terms of accuracy of definition, ability to measure, and availability and credibility of information; and to ensure that they reflect the actual current situation and identify the right time to measure them to reveal the norm, and not temporary changes in the situations and identify the reasons for those changes.

This document does not aim at the institutionalization of all the indicators at this time but to develop them gradually through a mid to long term range policy that specifies national definitions, clear methodologies and whatever database is needed that enables the submission of periodical and immediate reports and monitoring of the situations of the children in the OPT within a reasonable amount of time to draw policies, develop realistic plans that target the rights of children in all sectors, and bridge the gaps to improve access to the marginalized groups based on unified, valid and nationally agreed upon indicators according to best practices and based on a certain base year.

4 PCBS surveys tend to be more indepth in terms of accessing information from a wide population on what kinds of services, problems, violations they are facing. However, administrative records are sources of information that ministries collect from populations actually receiving their services only. Hence, it is a service based indicator that does not include a general measure of the population.

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Criteria of good indicators1. To be connected with national and sectoral policies, strategies and plans, and to be able

to be monitored, evaluated and used in the process of policy planning and drawing.

2. To be able not only to measure the development, but also the decrease in the level of development and social isolation too.

3. To be developed with parties of concern including children, governmental and civil society organizations, and the private sector, and not to reflect certain personal interests.

4. To be measurable, reliable,(give the same result each time they are measured using the same methodology with the same timeframe), specific, meaningful, relevant, reflect the reality; and based on sound foundations, evidence and facts in order to put in place better systems for the protection of the children.

5. To have a clear measurement methodology which is simple, easy to interpret, and easy analyze.

6. Allow for collection of disaggregated data.

7. To be stable with time.

8. To be comparable on local and international levels.

9. To have a degree of legal sensitivity to reflect its importance in the laws, legislation, policy, and in developing information gathering mechanisms in a continuous and detailed way, cover all the children, be available for public use.

It is a condition that whoever collects and analyzes data to have the required knowledge on the definition of the indicator, ways of measurement, variables, and the local and national context in terms of legal, legislative, policy, and service frameworks. They should have the required skills to analyze the information based on the context. Another condition is to have standard mechanisms and tools to collect information in terms of target groups, timeframe, frequency , sources of information, how to use the information, the degree of details required, etc.

And since the process of information gathering and analysis requires lots of time and effort, information shouldn’t be gathered unless it has a value and is clear in terms of what information is required, who is the beneficiary, the importance of information is defined and the time/period required to be measured.

Frequency should also be specified based on different factors such as the nature of indicators, how possible it is to get reliable results within that time period, the objective of measurement, the logic behind the time period, the number of variables, international standards and report requirements.

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Data and information gathered should be reliable, which means getting the same results on the same indicator within the same time period, if the measurement was repeated by different parties, and this is done through:

• Unifying the standards, definitions and concepts.

• Unified data gathering (methodology).

• Identifying the target group (sample) and the objective of studying the indicator, time period and required details.

• Identifying the sources of and access to information (information ’inside’ an entity or a household is private and hard to get); how complete, classified and reliable the information inside is (an example of the complete records and data classified by sex, geographical location, socio-economic situation, age, etc.).

• Testing the indicator.

• Having all the elements of data recorded and entered accurately.

• Describing and analyzing data in a unified way.

The process can be summarized as follows:

Identifying theindicator, its

definition andthe methodology of

its measurement

Data collection based on study

sampleData Entry Data Analysis

Overlooking any of the previous stages will lead to false results that do not represent the reality, consequently making the results useless in directing the decision makers correctly. In some cases, institutions put their utmost efforts on the first stages of the process rather than data and information analysis. This is because of lack of partnership, distribution of roles with higher education institutions or research centres, or not enough financial and qualified human resources or vision on the issue as a whole. In other cases, the needed resources and efforts are not identifed and targeted to marginalized groups, particularly as they can be hard to access, unlike other groups.

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Some of the common problems when collecting, analyzing and using data:Information Analysis Information Gathering

Inability to compare, either due to lack of enough description or classification of data, absence of base year, inaccurate methods of data entry by unqualified or untrained individuals, or due to lack of budget.

Study or survey sample does not represent or include marginalized groups due to the difficulty of accessing them (thus requiring more efforts and resources). The team that gathers the information is not specialized, trained, or qualified and doesn’t possess the required skill to understand the context and the vision. Lack of budget to regularly gather information.

Lack of sufficient and qualitative analysis of data by specialists due to lack of role distribution with the higher education institutions or the absence of qualified team in the ministries to analyze the information based on the context and typical changes which leads to misinformed conclusions, confusing decision makers.

Lack of clear methodology; unified definitions, standards, concepts, time periods or due to lack of base year and benchmark.

More effort and resources are used to collect data, but not enough efforts, attention, and resources to analyzing the findings.

Data is incomplete, inaccurate, unreliable or more than required.

Not using the data and information in decision making

Types of indicators:Indicators are classified into three types: structural (legislation/legal frameworks), process (procedural), and outcome (connected to outcomes and results).

Legal, legislative, policy, strategic, standards, budgets

Outcome

Process

Sturctural

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ruct

ural

Indi

cato

rsTy

pe o

f In

dica

tor

Mea

sure

the

cha

nges

tha

t re

late

to

resu

lts th

at c

an b

e co

ntrib

uted

to c

are

and

serv

ices

pro

vide

d an

d ar

e us

ed to

id

entif

y th

e pr

oblem

s or

mon

itor

the

impa

ct o

f ser

vice

s on

the

bene

ficia

ries

for l

ong o

r med

ium

per

iods

.

Des

crib

e ac

tiviti

es a

nd t

asks

req

uire

d to

fina

lize

the

serv

ices

se

t an

d th

e pr

ogra

ms

rela

ted

to u

sing

the

reso

urce

to

achi

eve

a ce

rtai

n go

al, c

ompa

red

to a

ben

chm

ark

or c

erta

in st

anda

rds

acco

rdin

g to

the

law

, po

licy,

strat

egy,

set

stand

ards

; an

d its

qu

ality

, impl

emen

tatio

n an

d ut

iliza

tion

of fu

nds f

or th

em. Th

ey

poin

t to

wha

t exi

sts i

n te

rms o

f wor

k pl

an to

achi

eve t

he p

olic

ies,

strat

egie

s, pr

oced

ures

, aw

aren

ess c

ampa

igns

or m

obili

ze su

ppor

t an

d so

lidar

ity w

ithin

the p

ower

of t

he in

stitu

tion

to fi

naliz

e the

se

rvic

e an

d id

entif

y th

e be

nefic

iarie

s. It

has

to

be c

onne

cted

w

ith re

sults

to re

flect

the q

ualit

y.

Des

crib

e the

gene

ral f

ram

ewor

k th

at sh

ould

be

ava

ilabl

e fo

r th

e sy

stem

or

insti

tutio

n to

pro

vide

ser

vice

s an

d pr

ogra

ms

such

as

exist

ence

of

laws,

legi

slatio

n, p

roto

cols,

po

licy

fram

ewor

k,

strat

egy

and

plan

s, bu

dget

m

echa

nism

, m

obili

ze

supp

ort

and

solid

arity

, ra

ising

lev

el o

f aw

aren

ess,

mon

itorin

g an

d ev

alua

tion,

co

mpl

aint

s, sta

ndar

ds,

qual

ifica

tions

, au

thor

ities

, m

echa

nism

s to

hear

the v

oice

s and

opi

nion

s of

chi

ldre

n on

all

leve

ls, e

tc.

whi

ch w

ill

guar

ante

e the

requ

ired

resu

lts.

Exam

ple

1:

Mor

talit

y ra

te

amon

g ch

ildre

n or

co

mpl

icat

ions

in

a

cert

ain

life

perio

ds d

ue to

the

lack

of

spec

ializ

ed p

edia

tric

ians

.

Exam

ple

2:

Mor

talit

y ra

te

amon

g ch

ildre

n du

e to

dom

estic

viol

ence

.

Exam

ple

3:

Mor

talit

y ra

te

amon

g ch

ildre

n du

e to

suffo

catio

n or

pla

ying

w

ith to

ys n

ot co

nfor

med

to st

anda

rds.

Exam

ple

4: P

erce

ntag

e of

wor

king

ch

ildre

n.

Exam

ple

5:

Mor

talit

y ra

te

amon

g ch

ildre

n or

rat

e of

mor

bidi

ty, d

ue t

o la

ck o

f suffi

cien

t fina

ncia

l res

ourc

es.

Exam

ple 1

: The p

rese

nce/

num

ber o

f reh

abili

tatio

n pr

ogra

ms f

or

wor

kers

with

chi

ldre

n in

uni

vers

ities

bas

ed o

n th

e pr

otoc

ol, o

r th

e nu

mbe

r and

qua

lity

of sp

ecia

lized

pro

gram

s for

phy

sicia

ns

wor

king

with

child

ren.

Exam

ple

2: Th

e av

aila

bilit

y of

chi

ld p

rote

ctio

n pr

ogra

ms f

rom

do

mes

tic vi

olen

ce.

Exam

ple 3

: The a

vaila

bilit

y of

regu

lar i

nspe

ctio

n pr

oced

ures

on

the s

tand

ards

of c

hild

ren’s

toys

(num

ber o

f qua

lified

and

trai

ned

insp

ecto

rs).

Exam

ple 4

: The a

vaila

bilit

y of p

olic

y and

pro

cedu

res t

o pr

even

t ch

ild la

bour

.

Exam

ple

5: P

erce

ntag

e of

act

ual s

pend

ing

on th

e he

alth

of t

he

child

.

Exam

ple

1: Th

e pr

esen

ce o

f a d

ocum

ent o

r pr

otoc

ol t

hat

defin

es t

he q

ualifi

catio

n of

in

divi

dual

s who

wor

k w

ith c

hild

ren

or th

e qu

alifi

catio

ns s

peci

alist

phy

sicia

ns s

houl

d ha

ve.

Exam

ple

2: Th

e pr

esen

ce o

f a

law t

hat

prot

ects

the c

hild

from

dom

estic

viol

ence

.

Exam

ple

3: Th

e av

aila

bilit

y of

an

artic

le in

th

e law

that

sets

out

spec

ifica

tions

to m

ake

toys

safe

for c

hild

ren.

Exam

ple

4: Th

e av

aila

bilit

y of

law

s th

at

state

the m

inim

um w

orki

ng a

ge an

d na

ture

of

per

miss

ible

wor

k.

Exam

ple

5: Th

e bu

dget

of s

pend

ing

on th

e he

alth

of c

hild

ren.

Definition of Indicator Examples

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The following graph represents the logical sequence and the correlation of the three indicators together:

Law and its articles Policies and procedures

Results/ outputs

Mortality rate among children

in traffic accidents due to speeding

Procedures to penalize drivers

for speeding

An article to prevent motorists

speeding

Indicators can be qualitative or quantitative. A qualitative indicator can demonstrate what happens or describes the changes over a certain period of time and can measure the quality of particular procedures, policies, laws, services, or programs and their quality, and to what extent they were implemented for the purposes of monitoring and evaluation. The information can then be evaluated to determine an initiative’s efficacy. The quantitative approach measures real numbers and percentages within a certain period of time, providing they identify the target group.

Quantitative indicators such as:Qualitative indicators like the availability of:

• Legislative Framework• Policy and planning framework• Systems• Monitoring and evaluation• Awarness on a specific issue• Capacity building procedures

and programs• Partnership building• Information and analysis

• Number/ rate of children• Number of institutions• Number of centers• Number of workers• Number of specialties• Percentage and amount

of spending... with details and classification of data by location, time, sex, geographical distribution, stage

General Qualitative IndicatorsQualitative indicators should reflect not only the availability of laws, policies or programs but also their quality, the extent of their implementation, quality of implementation; and the ease of which the services can be accessed by children or their parents/guardians, and the extent of their satisfaction. They are measured, usually, every 3-5 years and they are usually measured at the structural and process levels, for example:

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Legislative FrameworkThe availability of legal and legislative framework: (Structural)• Does it reflect the best interests of the child?

• Does it identify responsibilities and consequences?

• Are there approved and binding executive regulations?

• Are there legal articles and legislation that define the minimum ages that require protection, according to the general principles of the Convention including non-discrimination, guarantee the right of survival and development , and the best interests of the child, and conditions pertaining to:

• Beginning and end of mandatory education (age and grade)

• Employment

• Hazardous work

• Work full-time or part-time

• Access to information and media

• Criminal responsibility

• Access to medical advice or taking a medical procedure without the parents’ consent

• Deprivation of freedom

• Marriage

• Participation in armed conflicts

• Court testimonial

• Access to passport (travel document)

• Submitting a complaint before a specialized authority

• Participation in administrative and judicial pleadings

• Change of identity and name

• Foster care and guardianship

• Participation in developing policies and plans

• Are there legal and legislative articles to ensure non-discrimination and imposing the required penalties in the case of non-compliance?

• Is there legislation in place to penalize violators?

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Availability of Information, Analysis, and DisseminationIs there sufficient and reliable information available, and has it been analyzed and published properly and correctly?• Are there measures to collect, provide and distribute information in a national,

systematic, detailed and comprehensive way; and can it be benefited from in the processes of the planning and drawing of policies and legislation on all levels, and submitting comprehensive annual reports on the situation of the rights of the child and their violations?

• Is there a detailed analysis of the child allocated budget by March of every year?

• Is there a periodical report on child service providers including their locations, specialties, training received and qualifications, etc. available?

Examples of the information that should be provided:• Percentage of spending by sector out of the total, and percentage of spending on

the child.

• The number of specialized and technical human resources available and who are needed by type, location, sex, specialty, qualifications, etc.

• Number of institutions that are concerned with children when compared to the population and distribution:

• Hospitals

• Health clinics and centres

• Cultural and youth centres

• Schools

• Kindergartens

• Nurseries

• Daycare homes

• Social care institutions

• Disability rehabilitation centres

• Juvenile centres

Translating the laws and legislation

into executive regulations, policy framework, action plan,

protocols, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, budget tools, tools to

mobilize support, solidarity, and raise levels of awareness, complaint tools and monitoring,

clear and specific authorities, and responsibilities by the government to ensure transparency and accountability, to protect the child and their

rights, and to be developed with their participation and based on detailed,

reliable and comprehensive information.

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Policy and Planning FrameworkIs the policy and planning framework, and what it entails of setting the budgets and the required human resources, their qualifications, and plans to develop their capacities and maintain them, identified and available? (Structural)• Are there comprehensive national, approved, and declared measures and strategies

available to ensure the implementation of the Convention in all sectors, and is it able to be implemented with the specified responsibilities and of a high quality?

• Are the needed and sufficient financial and human resources concerned with children, periodical detailed needs-assessments classified by geographical distribution, specialties, sectors, etc. available?

• Is there available a national comprehensive, systematic, and long term plan to train the legal, executive and legislative authority, as well as personnel working with children on the central and field levels on the rights of the child and how to deal with children to ensure their rights and protect them, especially the marginalized and less fortunate groups?

• Are there procedures and measures to help parents and guardians in raising their children and accessing the basic educational, health and social services, especially the marginalized families and families with children who have special needs in a sustainable way that strengthens independence?

• Are there policies to strengthen the decentralization and distribution of roles to ensure access and coverage to all groups and strengthening collective responsibility of the realization of the rights of the children?

• Are there policies and mechanisms to protect the child against violence, abuse, exploitation, negligence, impact of poverty and disability, accidents and their effect, disease and their complications in the household, alternative homes, social care institutions, emergency and temporary child protection centres, nurseries, kindergartens juvenile and arrest centres, school community, and health centres?

• Are there clear protocols that limit the steps that need to be taken by personnel working with children in all sectors in cases of emergency, is there a definition of negligence in all sectors, are there mechanisms of monitoring and accountability in the case of negligence?

• Are there policies to strengthen the role of the child and sense of responsibility towards the self, community and surrounding environment?

Periodically monitoring and evaluating laws, policies and plans to circulate what is successful, modify what

needs to be modified, and suggest new ones according to specific national indicators and mechanisms.

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Monitoring and EvaluationAre there monitoring and evaluation mechanisms? (Structural)• Is there a system to monitor the implementation of national strategies, policies,

programs and services on all levels of public and private sectors, civil society, and UNRWA to evaluate it to submit feedback in order to develop or suggest the needed legislatives, policies and plans?

• Is there a mechanism to clearly distribute the roles among the different institutions (PCBS, ministries, private and civil sector, human rights institutions, the Supreme Council of Motherhood and Childhood, the National Council of the Rights of the Child, and others) in terms of information gathering and analysis, ensure their creditability, and submitting periodical reports?

In order to achieve the right governance in the field of the rights of the child; mechanisms to raise awareness on the

rights of the child in all levels should be developed, how to access services, report on cases of negligence and error against the child, family and community, and work on providing safe

access to needed information in cooperation with and the responsibility of all governmental, nongovernmental, media

and local community institutions?

Awareness Raising, Capacity Development, and Partnership BuildingAre there mechanisms to raise awareness and capacity and partnership building? (Structural)• Does curriculum entail the general principles of the rights of the child (non-

discrimination, child’s best interest, child’s right in survival, development, health, education and freedom of speech/participation) and case studies?

• Are there measures and mechanisms to strengthen the role of the civil society, municipality councils and municipalities, and building their capacities in protection of children, their access to basic services, and report the cases of negligence and error?

• Are there measures to strengthen the principle of volunteerism, mandatory civil service, and individual responsibility?

• What is the role of media in raising awareness and informing the people on the locations of access services, their rights, and duties on all the levels? And has this role been strengthened and directed?

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• Is there enough awareness on the mechanisms of complaints and monitoring by the child or the people surrounding him on both the local and central levels?

After developing the different frameworks and identifying the criteria, comes the stage of measuring implementation and how the legal, policy, planning, and other framework reflects the implementation programs

of regular and emergency services or supportive services in terms of providing the actual infrastructure, transportation, needed human and

financial resources, the extent of access of services by the recipient and the degree of satisfaction. Have the available resources been used in a strategic and transparent way and in partnership and coordination with all service

providers, degree of satisfaction on such services and their quality through quality process indicators?

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Prio

ritie

s o

f na

tiona

l ind

ica

tors

in th

e s

ec

tors

of h

ea

lth,

ed

uca

tion,

pro

tec

tions

, dis

ab

ility

, and

pa

rtic

ipa

tion:

56

The r

ight

of c

hild

to h

ealth

and

surv

ival

(Art

icle

s 6, 1

8, 2

4)

Indi

cato

rSo

urce

Freq

uenc

yD

etai

ls•

Avai

labi

lity

of

spec

ific

laws,

exec

utiv

e re

gulat

ions

, and

auth

oriti

es ba

sed

on th

e rig

hts

of t

he c

hild

and

ens

ure

their

par

ticip

atio

n,

acco

unta

bilit

y, tr

ansp

aren

cy,

equa

lity,

non-

disc

rimin

atio

n, an

d th

e chi

ld’s

best

inte

rest

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

UN

RWA

• PL

C•

Nat

iona

l Cou

ncil

of H

ealth

Pol

icy a

nd S

trat

egic

Pla

nnin

g

• Av

aila

ble o

r Una

vaila

ble

• D

egre

e of i

mpl

emen

tatio

n•

Deg

ree

of

satis

fact

ion

on

impl

emen

tatio

n an

d qu

ality

• Av

ailab

ility

of h

ealth

pol

ices,

plan

s, pr

ogra

ms,

budg

ets,

and

com

plai

nt m

echa

nism

s ba

sed

on t

he r

ight

s of

the

chi

ld a

nd e

nsur

es h

is pa

rtici

patio

n,

acco

unta

bilit

y, tra

nspa

renc

y, eq

ualit

y, no

n-di

scrim

inat

ion

and

the

child

’s be

st in

tere

sts

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

UN

RWA

• PL

C•

Nat

iona

l Cou

ncil

of H

ealth

Pol

icy a

nd S

trat

egic

Pla

nnin

g•

Inde

pend

ent C

omm

issio

n of

Hum

an R

ight

s

• Av

aila

bilit

y of

mec

hani

sms

mon

itorin

g an

d ev

alua

tion

of t

he l

aws,

polic

ies,

plan

s an

d pr

ogra

ms

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Nat

iona

l Cou

ncil

of H

ealth

Pol

icy a

nd S

trat

egic

Pla

nnin

g•

UN

RWA

• Av

aila

bilit

y of

m

echa

nism

s to

m

obili

ze

supp

ort,

part

ners

hip

build

ing,

and

rai

se th

e le

vel

of a

war

enes

s on

the

chi

ld’s

right

s in

he

alth

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Nat

iona

l Cou

ncil

of H

ealth

Pol

icy a

nd S

trat

egic

Pla

nnin

g•

Civ

il so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

• U

NRW

A•

Avai

labi

lity

of p

roto

cols

and

proc

edur

es o

f m

onito

ring,

eva

luat

ion,

acc

ount

abili

ty a

nd

mec

hani

sms o

f com

plai

nt

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Nat

iona

l Cou

ncil

of H

ealth

Pol

icy a

nd S

trat

egic

Pla

nnin

g•

Inde

pend

ent C

omm

issio

n of

Hum

an R

ight

s•

Att

orne

y Gen

eral

’s O

ffice

• H

ealth

Uni

ons

5 Th

e cur

rent

situ

atio

n of

the i

ndic

ator

s; ho

wev

er, i

t is p

refe

rabl

e to

have

a un

ified

nat

iona

l sou

rce o

f inf

orm

atio

n th

at in

clud

es in

form

atio

n by

all s

ervi

ce ap

plic

ants

(gov

ernm

enta

l, U

NRW

A, p

rivat

e sec

tor,

and

civi

l soc

iety

)6

Plea

ser r

evie

w A

ppen

dix (

1) o

n th

e det

aile

d lis

t of t

he h

ealth

qua

lity s

truc

tura

l ind

icat

ors

General health structural indicators 6

* Av

aila

ble o

r Una

vaila

ble,

Deg

ree o

f im

plem

enta

tion,

Deg

ree o

f sat

isfac

tion

on im

plem

enta

tion

and

qual

ity

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• Av

ailab

ility

of

clear

pro

toco

ls to

dea

l w

ith

emer

genc

y cas

es, m

edica

l neg

ligen

ce, a

nd ab

use

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

UN

RWA

• H

ealth

Uni

ons

• Av

aila

bilit

y of

law

s an

d m

easu

res

for

the

prov

ision

of

fre

e ba

sic

med

ical

ca

re

for

child

ren

unde

r 18

year

s of a

ge

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Min

istry

of F

inan

ce

• Av

ailab

ility

of

th

e ne

eded

, sy

stem

atic

and

unifi

ed tr

ainin

g fra

mew

ork

in th

e field

of h

ealth

ed

ucat

ion

and

right

s and

hea

lth o

f the

child

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Civ

il so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

• Pr

ivat

e Sec

tor

• U

NRW

A•

Avai

labi

lity

of

proc

edur

es

to

prev

ent

disa

bilit

y, co

mpl

icat

ions

an

d de

pend

ence

th

roug

h ea

rly d

etec

tion,

pre

vent

ion,

rai

sing

the l

evel

of a

war

enes

s and

early

inte

rven

tion

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Civ

il so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

• Pr

ivat

e Sec

tor

• U

NRW

A•

Avai

labi

lity

of p

roce

dure

s to

red

uce

and

prev

ent a

ccid

ents

• M

inist

ry of

Hea

lth –

Med

ical I

nstit

utio

n to P

reve

nt R

oad A

ccid

ents

• M

inist

ry o

f Tra

nspo

rtat

ion

• M

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

r - P

olic

e

• Av

ailab

ility

of

pr

oced

ures

to

co

mba

t co

mm

unica

ble a

nd n

on-c

omm

unica

ble d

iseas

es•

Min

istry

of H

ealth

• U

NRW

A

• Av

aila

bilit

y of

mea

sure

s7 to

redu

ce m

orta

lity

rate

of

infa

nts,

child

ren

unde

r fiv

e ye

ars

of

age,

and

mot

hers

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth

• Av

aila

bilit

y of

nat

iona

l pol

icie

s on

the h

ealth

of

adol

esce

nts a

nd sa

fe ac

cess

to in

form

atio

n•

Min

istry

of H

ealth

• M

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

n

• Av

aila

bilit

y of

psy

chol

ogic

al a

ssist

ance

for

ch

ildre

n by

age

, de

velo

pmen

tal

need

s an

d lik

elih

ood

of ex

posu

re to

dan

ger

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Civ

il so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

• U

NRW

A

• Av

aila

bilit

y of

reso

urce

s allo

cate

d to

dev

elop

co

nsul

tatio

n an

d re

habi

litat

ion

serv

ices

fri

endl

y to

you

ng

adol

esce

nts

and

avai

labl

e w

ithou

t the

cons

ent o

f par

ents

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Civ

il so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

• U

NRW

A

• Av

aila

bilit

y of

m

easu

res

to

impr

ove

the

nutr

ition

al in

dica

tors

and

heal

thy l

ife p

atte

rns

amon

g ch

ildre

n an

d ad

oles

cent

s

• M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth•

Civ

il so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

• U

NRW

A

General health structural indicators

7 Pr

oced

ures

and

mea

sure

s inc

lude

wha

t the

stat

e po

ssib

ly c

ondu

cts i

n te

rms o

f rev

iew

s, m

onito

ring,

esta

blish

ing

of sp

ecia

l fun

ds o

r nat

iona

l bod

ies,

awar

enes

s cam

paig

ns; p

rovi

de p

olic

ies,

legi

slatio

n, la

ws,

strat

egie

s and

tr

ansp

orta

tion

supp

ort

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28

Base

Yea

r 201

1

Indi

cato

rSo

urce

(Cur

rent

ly)

Freq

uenc

yD

efini

tion

Com

men

tsIn

dica

tors

of t

he q

ualit

y of h

ealth

serv

ices

pro

vide

d:

Num

ber

of q

ualifi

ed a

nd l

icen

sed

med

ical

tea

ms;

thei

r cl

assifi

catio

n,

distr

ibut

ion,

se

x,

inco

me

leve

l (P

hysic

ians

, sp

ecia

lists

, de

ntist

s, nu

rses

, ph

arm

acist

s, m

idw

ives

, nu

triti

onist

s, ps

ychi

atris

ts,

psyc

holo

gist

s, et

c.)

• M

inist

ry o

f H

ealth

/ H

ealth

In

form

atio

n C

entr

eA

nnua

lFo

r ev

ery

10,0

00 o

f th

e po

pula

tion

durin

g the

sam

e yea

rD

etai

ls /

clas

sifica

tion

in t

erm

s of

ph

ysic

ians

, sp

ecia

lists

, de

ntist

s, nu

rses

, pha

rmac

ists,

and

mid

wiv

es

are a

vaila

ble a

t Hea

lth In

form

atio

n C

entr

e. A

s fo

r th

e cl

assifi

catio

n by

lic

ense

, se

x, l

evel

of

inco

me

and

num

ber

of

nutr

ition

ists,

psyc

hiat

rists

, and

psy

chol

ogist

s; it

is cu

rren

tly u

nava

ilabl

e.N

umbe

r of c

ampa

igns

and

prog

ram

s th

at t

arge

t ch

ildre

n, d

river

s, tr

affic

polic

e, te

ache

rs

and

pare

nts

on

traffi

c sa

fety

dur

ing

the

year

and

the

resp

onsib

le p

arty

.

• M

inist

ry o

f Tra

nspo

rtat

ion

• M

inist

ry o

f H

ealth

– M

edic

al

Insti

tute

fo

r R

oad

Safe

ty

and

Dep

artm

ent

of

Hea

lth

prom

otio

n an

d Ed

ucat

ion

• M

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

n•

Pales

tine

Broa

dcas

ting

Cor

pora

tion

• C

ivil

Soci

ety I

nstit

utio

ns•

UN

RWA

• N

atio

nal C

omm

issio

n of

Hea

lth

Educ

atio

n

Ann

ual

Nee

d to

dev

elop

a m

echa

nism

to

colle

ct th

is in

form

atio

n

Process Indicators

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29Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child

Process IndicatorsN

umbe

r of

aw

aren

ess

cam

paig

ns

and

prog

ram

s to

com

bat

unhe

alth

y so

cial

hab

its su

ch a

s ea

rly m

arria

ge,

cons

angu

inity

, sm

okin

g, e

tc. d

urin

g th

e ye

ar a

nd t

o be

dire

cted

at

the

resp

onsib

le p

artie

s.

• M

inist

ry of

Hea

lth –

Dep

artm

ent

of H

ealth

Edu

catio

n•

Civ

il So

ciet

y Ins

titut

ions

• Pa

lesti

ne

Broa

dcas

ting

Cor

pora

tion

• M

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

n•

UN

RWA

• N

atio

nal C

omm

issio

n of

Hea

lth

Educ

atio

n

Ann

ual

Dev

elop

an

info

rmat

ion

gath

erin

g m

echa

nism

Num

ber

of

med

ical

ce

ntre

s an

d ho

spita

ls an

d th

eir

distr

ibut

ion

by

area

, go

vern

orat

e, po

pula

tion

and

num

ber

of c

hild

ren,

and

qua

lified

an

d sp

ecia

lized

per

sonn

el (p

erso

nnel

av

aila

ble

for

the

faci

litie

s of

the

M

OH

onl

y) in

a ce

rtai

n tim

e per

iod

and

as p

er t

he s

ervi

ce p

rovi

ding

pa

rty.

• M

inist

ry o

f H

ealth

– H

ealth

In

form

atio

n C

entr

eA

nnua

lD

evel

op a

n in

form

atio

n ga

ther

ing

mec

hani

sm.

A

surv

ey

of

heal

th

faci

litie

s (p

erso

nnel

, ce

ntre

s an

d nu

mbe

r of

pat

ient

s) o

n th

e nat

iona

l lev

el is

av

aila

ble.

Ano

ther

sur

vey

will

be

cond

ucte

d on

the

hea

lth f

acili

ties

durin

g 201

2.

Mor

talit

y ra

te o

f in

fant

s, ch

ildre

n un

der

five

year

s of

age

, ch

ildre

n be

twee

n 5

- les

s tha

n18

year

s of a

ge8

by c

ause

s, tim

e pe

riod,

geo

grap

hica

l di

strib

utio

n by

(go

vern

orat

e, se

x,

age g

roup

, soc

io-e

cono

mic

situ

atio

n,

and

the

leve

l of

edu

catio

n of

the

m

othe

r).

• M

inist

ry o

f H

ealth

– H

ealth

In

form

atio

n C

entr

e•

PCBS

Ann

ual

Ever

y fou

r ye

ars

(Mor

talit

y of

in

fant

s):

Num

ber

of

dece

ased

ch

ildre

n fo

r ev

ery

1000

ne

wbo

rn in

the s

ame y

ear.

(Mor

talit

y of

child

ren

unde

r 5 y

ears

of

age)

: Num

ber o

f dec

ease

d ch

ildre

n fo

r ev

ery 1

000

new

born

in th

e sam

e yea

r.(M

orta

lity

of c

hild

ren

betw

een

5-le

ss

than

18

year

s of

age

): N

umbe

r of

de

ceas

ed ch

ildre

n fo

r eve

ry 1

000

child

fro

m t

he s

ame

age

grou

p in

the

sam

e ye

ar.

Incl

uded

in

the

Ann

ual

Hea

lth

Rep

ort

the

caus

es

by

reas

on,

age

grou

p, s

ex a

nd g

eogr

aphi

cal

loca

tion.

A

ques

tionn

aire

on

de

ceas

ed i

nfan

ts u

p to

one

yea

r of

age

is

avai

labl

e, bu

t do

esn’

t in

clud

e cl

assifi

catio

n by

the

soci

o-ec

onom

ic si

tuat

ion

and

the l

evel

of

educ

atio

n of

the m

othe

r.

Outcome Indicators

8 Th

ere

is a

need

to d

evel

op a

nd e

xpan

d th

e qu

estio

nnai

re o

f dec

ease

d ch

ildre

n to

incl

ude

child

ren

1-le

ss th

an 1

8 ye

ars,

and

to a

dd th

e so

cio-

econ

omic

situ

atio

n of

the

fam

ily a

nd th

e le

vel o

f edu

catio

n of

the

mot

her a

nd

cond

uct a

trai

ning

on

it. I

t is p

ossib

le th

at th

is w

ill n

ot ta

ke p

lace

soon

, as i

t req

uire

s ext

ra an

d cu

rren

tly u

nava

ilabl

e res

ourc

es.

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Perc

enta

ge o

f ch

ildre

n w

ho s

uffer

fro

m m

alnu

triti

on9 i

nclu

ding

thos

e w

ho

suffe

r ch

roni

c m

alnu

triti

on

(Ane

mia

, w

astin

g,

low

w

eigh

t, st

untin

g,

vita

min

A

de

ficie

ncy,

iodi

ne

defic

ienc

y, ov

erw

eigh

t, ob

esity

or

acut

e by

age

, ar

ea,

sex,

so

cio-

econ

omic

situ

atio

n an

d th

e le

vel o

f edu

catio

n of

the m

othe

r, an

d tim

e per

iod.

Perc

enta

ge o

f tho

se ea

ting u

nhea

lthy,

fast

food

s, an

d do

not

eat

bre

akfa

st

(at s

choo

l/ho

me)

.

Min

istry

of

H

ealth

Hea

lth

Info

rmat

ion

Cen

tre

thro

ugh

Nut

ritio

n Su

rvei

llanc

e an

d ad

min

istra

tive r

ecor

dsPC

BSU

NRW

A -

Rec

ords

1-3

year

s or

ever

y fou

r ye

ars

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n su

fferin

g fro

m th

e pr

oblem

with

a ce

rtai

n ag

e gro

up /

the

tota

l num

ber

of c

hild

ren

with

in t

hat

age g

roup

) x 1

00W

astin

g:

-2

Stan

dard

D

evia

tion

> w

eigh

t/he

ight

Low

Wei

ght:

Low

wei

ght v

s. ag

e

-2

Stan

dard

Dev

iatio

n >

wei

ght/

age

Ove

rwei

ght:

+3 S

tand

ard

Dev

iatio

n ≥

wei

ght/

age >

St

anda

rd D

evia

tion

Obe

sity:

+3

Stan

dard

Dev

iatio

n >

wei

ght/

age

Stun

ting:

shor

tnes

s vs.

age

and

refle

cts

the

heal

th

or

nutr

ition

al

situa

tion

-2 St

anda

rd D

evia

tion

> w

eigh

t/he

ight

Ane

mia

: Le

ss

than

11

gm/d

ecili

ter

Seve

re:

less

th

an

7gm

/dec

ilite

r Av

erag

e: 7

-10g

m/d

ecili

ter

Expa

nd th

e N

utrit

ion

Surv

eilla

nce

prog

ram

an

d sc

hool

he

alth

to

in

clud

e ch

ildre

n fro

m 3

-5 y

ears

of

age.

Num

ber/

perc

enta

ge

of

child

ren

(0-1

8 ye

ars)

tha

t w

ere

diag

nose

d w

ith

inco

mm

unic

able

ch

roni

c di

seas

e by

age

, ge

ogra

phic

al a

rea

(Gov

erno

rate

), se

x, an

d tim

e per

iod.

Min

istry

of

H

ealth

Hea

lth

Info

rmat

ion

Cen

tre

PCBS

Ann

ual

4 ye

ars

Can

cer,

diab

etes

an

d ev

ery

inco

mm

unic

able

ch

roni

c di

seas

e be

ing d

iagn

osed

in th

e fut

ure

Mor

talit

y ra

te o

f m

othe

rs b

y ag

e, ed

ucat

ion

leve

l, ca

uses

, dist

ribut

ion,

so

cio-

econ

omic

situ

atio

n du

ring

a ce

rtai

n tim

e per

iod

(one

year

)

Min

istry

of

H

ealth

Hea

lth

Info

rmat

ion

Cen

tre

Ann

ual

For e

very

100

,000

of l

ive b

irths

dur

ing

the s

ame y

ear

Outcome Indicators

9 Th

ere a

re d

iffer

ent r

easo

ns fo

r all

the d

isord

ers,

start

ing f

rom

lack

of p

reci

se an

d sp

ecifi

c nut

ritio

nal e

lemen

ts su

ch as

vita

min

s, m

iner

als o

r pro

tein

. Any

dec

reas

e or i

ncre

ase i

n th

e cal

orie

s mig

ht ca

use h

unge

r or o

besit

y or

othe

r pro

blem

s.

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Perc

enta

ge

of

full

natu

ral

brea

st

feed

ing

with

in t

he fi

rst

hour

of

birt

h, in

the fi

rst s

ix m

onth

s; by

area

(g

over

nora

te),

sex,

wor

k of

mot

her,

soci

o-ec

onom

ic

situa

tion,

ag

e of

m

othe

r, ed

ucat

ion

of m

othe

r dur

ing

a tim

e per

iod

Min

istry

of

H

ealth

Hea

lth

Info

rmat

ion

Cen

tre

thro

ugh

Nut

ritio

n Su

rvei

llanc

e an

d he

alth

sit

uatio

n of

mot

her a

nd ch

ildSu

rvey

s - P

CBS

Ann

ual

3-4

year

s

Chi

ldre

n fro

m 0

to

the

end

of t

he

fifth

mon

th o

f th

eir

age

who

stil

l are

br

eastf

ed b

y th

eir

mot

her

and

who

di

dn’t

eat

any

artifi

cial

milk

, foo

d or

dr

ink.

V

itam

ins

and

med

icin

e ar

e ex

clud

ed.

Wor

k of

mot

her,

soci

o-ec

onom

ic

situa

tion,

age o

f mot

her,

educ

atio

n of

mot

her

durin

g a

time

perio

d (u

nava

ilabl

e at t

he m

omen

t)Fu

ll br

eastf

eedi

ng:

brea

stfed

by

th

eir

mot

her

and

didn

’t co

nsum

e an

y ar

tifici

al m

ilk, f

ood

or d

rink.

V

itam

ins

and

med

icin

e ar

e ex

clud

ed.

Perc

enta

ge o

f wom

en e

ight

een

year

s or

les

s or

> 3

5 ye

ars

upon

giv

ing

birt

h in

a ce

rtai

n tim

e per

iod

Min

istry

of H

ealth

– A

dmin

istra

tive

reco

rds

PCBS

1-3

Year

sFo

r 100

0 ch

ildre

nD

evel

op li

ve b

irth

repo

rt fo

rm an

d ad

ding

the k

insh

ip ty

pe an

d de

gree

Perc

enta

ge o

f di

sabi

lity

case

s du

e to

tra

ffic

acci

dent

s du

ring

a ce

rtai

n tim

e per

iod

Min

istry

of H

ealth

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsPC

BS

Ann

ual

(Num

ber

of d

isabi

lity

case

s du

e to

tr

affic

acci

dent

s /

tota

l nu

mbe

r of

di

sabi

lity c

ases

) x 1

00

Num

ber

of

repo

rted

co

mpl

aint

s re

gard

ing

child

ren

not

rece

ivin

g ne

eded

he

alth

se

rvic

es

and

negl

igen

ce

by

heal

th

serv

ice

prov

ider

s du

ring

a ce

rtai

n tim

e pe

riod

ICH

RM

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth –

Com

plai

nts b

oxA

nnua

lSh

ows

the

incr

ease

in t

he le

vel o

f pe

ople

’s aw

aren

ess o

f the

ir rig

hts

Num

ber

of

com

plai

nts

rega

rdin

g de

nial

of c

hild

ren’s

rig

hts

that

wer

e pr

oces

sed

durin

g a

cert

ain

time

perio

d

ICH

RM

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth –

Com

plai

nts b

oxA

nnua

lSh

ows

how

co

mm

itted

is

the

Min

istry

in fo

llow

ing

up r

ight

s of

patie

nts

Outcome Indicators

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Rig

ht in

Edu

catio

n (A

rtic

les 2

8 an

d 29

)

Indi

cato

rSo

urce

Freq

uenc

yD

etai

lsAv

aila

bilit

y of

spec

ific

laws,

exec

utiv

e re

gula

tions

, and

aut

horit

ies b

ased

on

the

right

s of

the

chi

ld t

o str

engt

hen

a sa

fe e

duca

tiona

l en

viro

nmen

t, im

prov

e th

e qu

ality

of

educ

atio

n, an

d pr

even

t vio

lence

espe

cial

ly in

rem

ote a

nd m

argi

naliz

ed ar

eas t

hat e

nsur

e tr

ansp

aren

cy, a

ccou

ntab

ility

, the

chi

ld’s

best

inte

rest

, equ

ality

, non

-disc

rimin

atio

n, a

nd

with

the c

hild

’s pa

rtic

ipat

ion.

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

PLC

Avai

labi

lity

of la

ws,

plan

s, pr

ogra

ms a

nd b

udge

t mec

hani

sms b

ased

on

the r

ight

s of t

he

child

to st

reng

then

a sa

fe ed

ucat

iona

l env

ironm

ent,

impr

ove t

he qu

ality

of ed

ucat

ion,

and

prev

ent v

iolen

ce e

spec

ially

in re

mot

e an

d m

argi

naliz

ed a

reas

that

ens

ure

tran

spar

ency

, ac

coun

tabi

lity,

the c

hild

’s bes

t int

eres

t, eq

ualit

y, no

n-di

scrim

inat

ion,

and

with

the c

hild

’s pa

rtic

ipat

ion.

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Avai

labl

e m

easu

res

to e

ncou

rage

the

regu

lar

atte

ndan

ce a

nd p

reve

nt s

choo

l dro

pout

, an

d th

e pro

visio

n of

man

dato

ry, f

ree e

duca

tion

( inc

ludi

ng p

reve

ntin

g sch

ool a

cces

s).

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Avai

labi

lity o

f mon

itorin

g and

eval

uatio

n m

echa

nism

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Priv

ate s

ecto

rAv

aila

bilit

y of c

ompl

aint

s and

mon

itorin

g mec

hani

smM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nU

NRW

AIC

HR

Avai

labi

lity

of m

echa

nism

s to

mob

ilize

sup

port

and

sol

idar

ity, a

nd r

aisin

g le

vels

of

awar

enes

s on

the r

ight

of e

duca

tion

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Civ

il so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

Priv

ate s

ecto

rAv

aila

bilit

y of p

rogr

ams t

hat t

arge

t tal

ente

d an

d gi

fted

child

ren

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Priv

ate s

ecto

rC

ivil

soci

ety i

nstit

utio

ns

Structural Indicators

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33Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child

The

scop

e an

d qu

ality

of t

he im

plem

enta

tion

of p

lans

and

pro

gram

s to

impr

ove

the

qual

ity o

f edu

catio

n in

the a

reas

espe

cial

ly th

e rem

ote,

poor

and

mar

gina

lized

.Th

e sc

ope

and

qual

ity o

f th

e im

plem

enta

tion

of p

olic

ies,

legi

slatio

n an

d law

s to

str

engt

hen

a saf

e, ed

ucat

iona

l env

ironm

ent a

nd p

reve

nt vi

olen

ce.

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Priv

ate s

ecto

r

Avai

labl

e or u

nava

ilabl

eSc

ope o

f im

plem

enta

tion

Effec

tiven

ess a

nd q

ualit

y of

impl

emen

tatio

nPe

rcen

tage

of

spen

ding

on

the

educ

atio

nal

sect

or o

ut o

f th

e ge

nera

l bu

dget

and

pe

rcen

tage

of s

pend

ing

on th

e chi

ld, m

argi

naliz

ed g

roup

s, an

d un

iver

sity e

duca

tion

per

year

.

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

Min

istry

of F

inan

ceU

NRW

A

Ann

ual

Deg

ree o

f act

ive i

nvol

vem

ent o

f tea

cher

s in

the e

duca

tion

(tea

chin

g/le

arni

ng) p

roce

ss.

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

The

exte

nt o

f cur

ricul

um a

nd it

s con

tent

mee

ting

the

educ

atio

nal n

eeds

of P

ales

tinia

n so

ciet

y and

the r

ight

s of t

he ch

ild.

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

Num

ber o

f qua

lified

teac

hers

and

thei

r dist

ribut

ion

by st

age,

sex

and

area

acc

ordi

ng to

th

e str

ateg

y of t

each

ers’

reha

bilit

atio

nM

inist

ry o

f Ed

ucat

ion

(priv

ate

scho

ols a

nd U

NRW

A)

3 ye

ars

Num

ber o

f qua

lified

and

spec

ializ

ed st

aff, a

nd th

eir d

istrib

utio

n by

spec

ialty

and

area

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

(Priv

ate s

choo

lsU

NRW

A

3 ye

ars

Num

ber o

f hea

lth an

d co

unse

ling p

rogr

ams i

n sc

hool

sM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

n U

NRW

APr

ivat

e sec

tor

Num

ber

of s

tudi

es o

n th

e w

eakn

ess

of e

duca

tiona

l lev

el, t

he r

easo

ns b

ehin

d it,

and

m

onito

ring i

tM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nU

NRW

A2-

4 ye

ars

Rat

io o

f cla

ss d

ensit

y or c

onge

stion

stud

ent/

clas

s, th

e rea

sons

beh

ind

it, an

d m

onito

ring

itM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nU

NRW

AA

nnua

l

Perc

enta

ge o

f sch

ools

that

hav

e in

fras

truc

ture

for s

tude

nts w

ith d

isabi

litie

s, pe

rcen

tage

of

scho

ols t

hat h

ave r

esou

rce r

oom

sM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

n U

NRW

APr

ivat

e sec

tor

Process Indicators

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34

Perc

enta

ge o

f stu

dent

/san

itary

uni

t (to

ilet)

by a

rea,

type

of s

choo

l, an

d st

age

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

Min

istry

of H

ealth

3

year

s

Num

ber o

f sch

ools

conn

ecte

d to

offi

cial

sew

age

netw

ork

and

the

avai

labi

lity

of p

ublic

w

ater

net

wor

kM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

n M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lthW

ater

Aut

horit

yPC

BS

3 ye

ars

Perc

enta

ge o

f tea

cher

s qua

lified

to ed

ucat

e esp

ecia

lly o

n th

e rig

hts o

f the

child

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Priv

ate s

ecto

r

Ann

ual

Rat

io st

uden

t/co

unse

lor b

y are

a, ty

pe o

f sch

ool,

and

stage

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

3 ye

ars

Perc

enta

ge o

f sch

ools

that

hav

e can

teen

s by d

irect

orat

e and

area

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Ann

ually

Perc

enta

ge o

f net

and

gros

s enr

ollm

ent b

y sta

ge, s

ex an

d ar

ea (W

est B

ank

and

Gaz

a)M

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nPC

BSU

NRW

A

Ann

ually

Diff

er

depe

ndin

g on

tim

e of

m

easu

rem

ent

Perc

enta

ge o

f disa

bled

child

ren

out o

f tot

al n

umbe

r of s

tude

nt b

y typ

e of d

isabi

lity,

sex,

ag

e and

geo

grap

hica

l dist

ribut

ion

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

, Priv

ate S

choo

lsM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Spec

ial c

entr

es

Ann

ually

Perc

enta

ge o

f poo

r chi

ldre

n ou

t of t

otal

num

ber o

f stu

dent

s by s

ex, a

ge an

d ge

ogra

phic

al

distr

ibut

ion

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

, Priv

ate S

choo

lsM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Spec

ial c

entr

es

Ann

ually

Perc

enta

ge o

f sch

ool d

ropo

ut d

etai

led

by ca

uses

, age

, sex

, are

a, sta

ge an

d so

cio-

econ

omic

sit

uatio

nM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nPC

BSU

NRW

A

Ann

ually

Rat

e of e

nrol

lmen

t in

kind

erga

rten

by a

rea,

sex a

nd so

cio-

econ

omic

situ

atio

nM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nA

nnua

lly

Process Indicators Outcome Indicators

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35Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n de

priv

ed o

f acc

ess t

o el

ectr

icity

due

to Is

rael

i mea

sure

s by a

rea

UN

Org

aniz

atio

nsIn

tern

atio

nal

com

mun

ity

insti

tutio

ns

Ann

ually

Perc

enta

ge o

f chi

ldre

n re

ceiv

ing s

uppo

rted

scho

ol m

eals

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Ann

ually

Rat

io o

f stu

dent

to te

ache

r by a

rea

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

PCBS

Ann

ually

Perc

enta

ge o

f rea

ding

and

writ

ing p

rofic

ienc

y by s

tage

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

PCBS

Ann

ually

– 3

year

s

Num

ber o

f stu

dent

s/co

mpu

ter l

ab/s

cien

ce la

b/lib

rarie

s by s

choo

l typ

e, ar

ea an

d se

xM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nPC

BSU

NRW

A

3 ye

ars

Man

dato

ry n

atio

nal s

tand

ard

test

in A

rabi

c La

ngua

ge a

nd M

ath

for t

he 4

th a

nd 1

0th

grad

es an

d th

e int

erna

tiona

l tes

ts T

IMSS

.M

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

n

Perc

enta

ge o

f sch

ools

fulfi

lling

child

frie

ndly

stan

dard

s by a

rea

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

Perc

enta

ge o

f chi

ldre

n ha

ving

lear

ning

diffi

culti

es an

d en

rolle

d in

the e

duca

tiona

l sys

tem

by

sex,

age a

nd d

istrib

utio

nM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nU

NRW

A, P

rivat

e Sch

ools

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Hea

lthSp

ecia

l cen

tres

4 ye

ars

Una

vaila

ble

Perc

enta

ge o

f chi

ldre

n w

ith c

hron

ic d

iseas

es a

nd en

rolle

d in

the

educ

atio

nal s

yste

m b

y se

x, ag

e and

dist

ribut

ion

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

UN

RWA

, Priv

ate S

choo

lsM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Min

istry

of H

ealth

Spec

ial c

entr

esN

atio

nal

Cen

tre

for

Chr

onic

D

iseas

es

Outcome Indicators

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36

Num

ber o

f sch

ools

subj

ect t

o at

tack

s on

infr

astr

uctu

reM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

n

Num

ber o

f stu

dent

s sub

ject

to at

tack

s fro

m th

e arm

y or s

ettle

rs (t

raffi

c acc

iden

ts, a

rres

ts,

firea

rm in

jurie

s, et

c.)M

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nM

inist

ry o

f Det

aine

esIn

stitu

tion

for

Car

ing

for

Fam

ilies

of

th

e M

arty

rs

and

Wou

nded

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsN

umbe

r of h

ours

was

ted

in d

elay

s on

rout

e to

scho

ol (E

duca

tiona

l was

te) b

y st

uden

ts

and

teac

hers

due

to vi

olat

ions

M

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nA

nnua

l

Num

ber o

f stu

dent

s suff

erin

g fro

m p

sych

olog

ical

and

beh

avio

ral p

robl

ems c

omm

on in

th

e mar

gina

lized

area

.M

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Min

istry

of H

ealth

Ann

ual

Outcome Indicators

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37Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child

Prot

ectio

n In

dica

tors

(Art

icle

s 3, 5

, 10,

19,

20,

37,

and

38)

Stru

ctur

al Q

ualit

ativ

e Ind

icat

ors (

Avai

labi

lity,

qua

lity,

scop

e of i

mpl

emen

tatio

n an

d sa

tisfa

ctio

n)

Indi

cato

rSo

urce

Freq

uenc

yD

etai

lsAv

aila

bilit

y of

spe

cific

, act

ive,

impl

emen

ted

and

natio

nally

app

rove

d le

gal a

nd

legi

slativ

e fra

mew

ork,

exec

utiv

e reg

ulat

ions

and

auth

oriti

es fo

r the

pro

tect

ion

of

the c

hild

.

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsPL

C

Avai

labi

lity

of w

ritte

n, a

ppro

ved

and

bind

ing

long

ter

m p

olic

ies

and

plan

s fo

r th

e pr

otec

tion

of t

he c

hild

(D

etai

led

hum

an a

nd fi

nanc

ial

reso

urce

s ne

eded

, pr

ogra

ms)

Min

istry

of

Soci

al A

ffairs

and

pa

rtne

r m

inist

ries

such

as

M

inist

ry o

f Hea

lth, M

inist

ry o

f Ed

ucat

ion,

Hig

her

Cou

ncil

of

Yout

h an

d Sp

orts

, Pol

ice,

Hig

her

Judi

cial

C

ounc

il,

Min

istry

of

In

terio

r, M

inist

ry

of

Fina

nce,

PCBS

, Civ

il So

ciet

y Ins

titut

ions

, U

NRW

A, M

inist

ry o

f Lab

our

Avai

labi

lity o

f chi

ldho

od p

rote

ctio

ns n

etw

ork

Avai

labi

lity

of sp

ecia

lized

dep

artm

ents

in ch

ild p

rote

ctio

n in

the m

inist

ries s

uch

as M

inist

ry o

f So

cial

Affa

irs, M

inist

ry o

f La

bour

, Pol

ice,

cour

ts, M

inist

ry o

f Ed

ucat

ion,

Min

istry

of H

ealth

Avai

labi

lity o

f eth

ical

and

coun

selin

g crit

eria

to p

rote

ct th

e chi

ld fr

om al

l for

ms o

f vi

olen

ce an

d in

all l

ocat

ions

Avai

labi

lity

of p

roce

dure

s to

prot

ect t

he ch

ild ag

ains

t phy

sical

and

psyc

holo

gica

l vi

olen

ce; a

buse

, nee

d, b

eggi

ng, e

vasio

n, n

eglig

ence

, tor

ture

, exp

loita

tion,

etc.

Avai

labi

lity

of n

atio

nal a

nd u

nifie

d de

finiti

ons

of v

iolen

ce, a

buse

, phy

sical

and

ps

ycho

logi

cal a

buse

, neg

ligen

ce, p

hysic

al p

unish

men

t, et

c.Av

aila

bilit

y pro

cedu

res t

o su

ppor

t par

ents

and

lega

l gua

rdia

ns to

raise

the c

hild

Avai

labi

lity o

f sys

tem

atic

mon

itorin

g and

acco

unta

bilit

y mec

hani

sms f

or al

l chi

ld

care

and

prot

ectio

n in

stitu

tions

.Av

aila

bilit

y of

mec

hani

sms t

o m

obili

ze su

ppor

t and

solid

arity

and

raise

leve

l of

awar

enes

s on

child

’s rig

ht in

pro

tect

ion

and

the

loca

tions

of p

rovi

ding

serv

ices

, et

c.

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Prot

ectio

n Q

ualit

ativ

e In

dica

tors

Indi

cato

rSo

urce

Type

Freq

uenc

yD

efini

tion

Num

ber

of

wor

kers

w

ith

child

ren

(Ser

vice

, ca

re,

and

prot

ectio

n) an

d th

ose w

ho ar

e cer

tified

Min

istrie

s of

co

ncer

n,

civi

l so

ciet

y in

stitu

tions

, priv

ate s

ecto

r, U

NRW

APr

oces

s

Num

ber

of a

ppro

ved

prog

ram

s th

at t

arge

t ch

ild p

rote

ctio

n w

orke

rs b

y en

tity,

type

of t

rain

ing,

num

ber

of p

artic

ipan

ts,

distr

ibut

ion

(uni

fied

and

syst

emat

ic o

n th

e nat

iona

l lev

el)

Min

istry

of

So

cial

A

ffairs

, C

hild

hood

Pr

otec

tion

Net

wor

k,

Civ

il So

ciet

y In

stitu

tions

, UN

RWA

Proc

ess

Iden

tify

all c

hild

pro

tect

ion

and

serv

ice

syst

em w

orke

rs,

spec

ific t

rain

ing c

riter

iaPe

rcen

tage

of t

he a

ctua

l spe

ndin

g on

chi

ld p

rote

ctio

n ou

t of

the t

otal

spen

ding

Proc

ess

Num

ber o

f cas

es o

f com

mun

ity v

iolen

ce a

gain

st c

hild

ren

by

type

, age

, sex

, are

a, sit

uatio

n of

the

child

, lev

el o

f edu

catio

n of

par

ents

, soc

io-e

cono

mic

situ

atio

n of

the f

amily

, and

hea

lth

situa

tion

of th

e chi

ld (i

llnes

s, di

sabi

lity)

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs –

Adm

inist

rativ

e R

ecor

ds,

Polic

e, U

NRW

A,

civi

l so

ciet

y in

stitu

tions

, sur

veys

, adm

inist

rativ

e rec

ords

Out

com

eA

nnua

l and

surv

ey ev

ery fi

ve

year

s

Perc

enta

ge o

f wor

king

and

expl

oite

d ch

ildre

n de

taile

d by

sex,

ag

e, ar

ea an

d ca

use,

leve

l of e

duca

tion

of p

aren

ts, e

nrol

lmen

t in

sch

ool,

educ

atio

nal s

tage

of

the

child

; typ

e, na

ture

and

ho

urs o

f wor

k, lo

catio

n of

wor

k, a

vera

ge p

ay, w

ith fa

mily

or

outs

ide,

and

the h

ealth

situ

atio

n of

the c

hild

Min

istry

of

Labo

ur, P

olic

e, fa

mily

sur

vey,

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs, U

NRW

A, P

CBS

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com

e1-

3 ye

ars

Num

ber o

f juv

enile

insti

tutio

ns, r

ehab

ilita

tion

cent

res,

arre

st

cent

res,

wai

ting r

oom

s at c

hild

ren’s

cour

tsM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Min

istry

of I

nter

ior

Hig

her J

udic

ial C

ounc

il

Proc

ess

3-5

year

s

Num

ber

of

tem

pora

ry

child

pr

otec

tion

inst

itutio

ns

by

geog

raph

ical

dist

ribut

ion

and

targ

et g

roup

s (t

ype

of a

buse

, se

x, ag

e, tim

e spe

nt b

y chi

ld)

Num

ber

of t

he in

stitu

tions

tha

t pr

ovid

e le

gal a

ssist

ance

to

deta

ined

juve

nile

s and

child

ren

Proc

ess

Num

ber

of in

mat

es in

the

juve

nile

insti

tutio

ns b

y se

x, a

ge,

area

, ca

use,

char

ge,

scho

ol e

nrol

lmen

t, fa

mily

(nu

mbe

r of

m

embe

rs,

disjo

inte

d or

not

, soc

ial a

nd h

ealth

situ

atio

n, h

ead

of th

e fam

ily)

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsO

utco

me

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39Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child

Aver

age t

ime o

f det

entio

n an

d ar

rest

at ce

ntre

sH

ighe

r Ju

dici

al C

ounc

il, P

olic

e, M

inist

ry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs, A

ttor

ney G

ener

al’s

Offi

ce,

ICH

R

Out

com

eA

nnua

lN

umbe

r of c

hild

ren

det

aine

d be

fore

tria

lO

utco

me

Num

ber

and

perc

enta

ge o

f chi

ldre

n de

tain

ed a

t ins

titut

ions

no

t spe

cifie

d fo

r chi

ldre

nO

utco

me

Num

ber

of i

nstit

utio

ns t

hat

prov

ide

reha

bilit

atio

n an

d re

-in

tegr

atio

n se

rvic

es t

o ch

ildre

n th

at h

ave

been

vic

tims

of

viol

ence

and

abu

se, j

uven

iles,

and

wor

kers

by

distr

ibut

ion,

ab

sorp

tion

capa

city

and

type

of s

ervi

ce

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs –

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inist

rativ

e R

ecor

dsPr

oces

s3-

5 ye

ars

Num

ber

of c

hild

ben

efici

arie

s fro

m r

ehab

ilita

tion

and

re-

inte

grat

ion

prog

ram

s (ju

veni

les,

wor

kers

, vic

tims o

f vio

lence

an

d ex

ploi

tatio

n) b

y age

, are

a, se

x ,ca

use,

etc.

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs –

Adm

inist

rativ

e R

ecor

dsO

utco

me

Ann

ual

Num

ber

of r

epor

ted

case

s of

offe

nce,

mal

trea

tmen

t an

d ex

ploi

tatio

n at

hom

e, sc

hool

, soc

iety

, det

entio

n an

d ar

rest

ce

ntre

s and

care

cent

res a

nd th

e met

hod

of re

port

ing

Min

istry

of

So

cial

A

ffairs

th

roug

h ch

ildho

od p

rote

ctio

n ne

twor

k, M

inist

ry o

f Ed

ucat

ion,

Min

istry

of H

ealth

, Pol

ice,

civi

l so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

, IC

HR

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com

eA

nnua

l

Num

ber o

f wor

kers

with

chi

ldre

n in

the

field

s of p

rote

ctio

n su

ch

as

judg

es,

pros

ecut

ion,

se

curit

y, ju

veni

le

justi

ce,

psyc

holo

gist

s an

d so

cial

ists,

pro

batio

n offi

cers

, he

alth

, ed

ucat

ion,

child

labo

ur in

spec

tors

, chi

ld p

rote

ctio

n co

unse

lor,

soci

al c

ouns

elor

, in

stitu

tion

audi

tors

, w

omen

cou

nsel

ors,

polic

e, an

d M

inist

ry o

f Lab

our i

nspe

ctor

s

Min

istry

of

So

cial

A

ffairs

-

child

hood

pr

otec

tion

netw

ork,

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e, ch

ildre

n,

Min

istry

of H

ealth

, Min

istry

of E

duca

tion,

H

ighe

r Ju

dici

al

Cou

ncil,

A

ttor

ney

Gen

eral

’s offi

ce, e

tc.

Proc

ess

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f car

e in

stitu

tions

that

pro

vide

serv

ices

to o

rpha

ns

by a

rea,

distr

ibut

ion,

typ

e, ab

sorp

tion

capa

city

, lic

ense

and

re

gistr

atio

n (in

clud

es d

efini

tion

of o

rpha

n)

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsZa

kat C

omm

ittee

Min

istry

of I

nter

ior

UN

RWA

Proc

ess

3-5

year

s

Num

ber o

f per

iodi

cal h

ealth

revi

ews t

he ch

ild is

subj

ect t

o in

ca

re h

omes

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs –

Adm

inist

rativ

e R

ecor

dsPr

oces

sA

nnua

lC

lear

byl

aws

and

tran

sfer

mec

hani

sms

Num

ber

of p

erio

dica

l jud

icia

l rev

iew

s th

e ca

re in

stitu

tions

co

nduc

tM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Bure

au o

f Chi

ef Ju

dge

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orne

y Gen

eral

’s O

ffice

Pro

cess

Ann

ual

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40

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n de

priv

ed fr

om p

aren

ts’ c

are

or w

ho li

ve

with

one

of t

he p

aren

ts, b

y ca

uses

, are

a, ag

e, se

x, a

nd so

cio-

econ

omic

situ

atio

n

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

rM

inist

ry o

f Hea

lthW

aqf

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

Hig

h Ju

dici

al C

ounc

ilSu

rvey

s/PC

BS (F

amily

Sur

vey)

Rel

igio

us C

ourt

s

Out

com

eA

nnua

lD

efini

tions

sh

ould

be

sp

ecifi

ed (

care

, par

ents

) an

d ap

prov

ed

natio

nally

.

For

exam

ple,

pare

nts

mig

ht b

e al

ive

but

the

child

doe

sn’t

live

with

th

em

by

cour

t or

der,

or an

y rea

son

Num

ber o

f spo

nsor

ed c

hild

ren,

or u

nder

spon

sors

hip

insid

e an

d ou

tsid

e the

coun

try

Num

ber

of c

hild

ren

born

out

of

wed

lock

by

area

, sex

, and

he

alth

situ

atio

n

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

rBu

reau

of C

hief

Judg

e

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

r

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com

eA

nnua

l

Num

ber o

f fam

ilies

spon

sorin

g chi

ldre

nM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Num

ber

of t

reat

men

t an

d re

habi

litat

ion

cent

res,

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he

cent

res

that

pro

vide

ser

vice

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dru

g ab

user

s an

d ta

rget

ch

ildre

n aff

ecte

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dru

g abu

se b

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e of i

nstit

utio

n, se

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strib

utio

n, a

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ptio

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ty a

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umbe

r of

chi

ldre

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ring a

cert

ain

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erio

d

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

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inist

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f Hea

lthM

inist

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r

Proc

ess

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s

Num

ber

of p

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e de

tain

ed i

n dr

ug a

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ubsta

nce

abus

e re

late

d ca

ses a

nd h

ave c

hild

ren

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

rPo

lice

Min

istry

of H

ealth

Civ

il so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

Out

com

e A

nnua

l

Num

ber

of c

hild

ren

det

aine

d in

dru

g an

d su

bsta

nce

abus

e re

late

d ca

ses

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ber

of c

hild

ren

who

rec

eive

d re

habi

litat

ion

and

heal

th

serv

ices

who

wer

e affe

cted

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rug a

buse

Num

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f stu

dies

that

addr

esse

d th

e effe

ct o

f arm

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nflic

t/oc

cupa

tion

on th

e chi

ldre

n Pr

oces

s

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Num

ber o

f chi

ld vi

ctim

s of m

ines

, UX

O, a

nd ar

med

confl

ict/

occu

patio

n by

area

, age

, sex

and

caus

e Po

lice

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsD

efen

se fo

r Chi

ldre

n Pa

lesti

neU

NIC

EFM

inist

ry o

f Hea

lthO

CH

A

Out

com

eA

nnua

l

Num

ber

of s

tudi

es t

hat

addr

esse

d th

e eff

ect

of p

over

ty o

n ch

ildre

nPr

oces

sA

nnua

l

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n in

poo

r fam

ilies

by ar

ea, s

ex, a

ge, s

ituat

ion

of th

e hea

d of

the f

amily

, the

hea

lth an

d ed

ucat

iona

l situ

atio

n of

fath

er, m

othe

r, an

d ch

ildre

n, et

c.

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs –

Rec

ords

UN

RWA

– R

ecor

dsSu

rvey

s - P

CBS

Out

com

e1-

3 ye

ars a

ccor

ding

to

th

e na

tiona

l pl

ans

Com

paris

on o

f re

cord

s by

su

rvey

s

Num

ber

of

child

re

fuge

es

(det

aile

d by

ge

ogra

phic

al

distr

ibut

ion,

age

, sex

, soc

io-e

cono

mic

situ

atio

n, e

duca

tion,

et

c.)

PCBS

UN

RWA

Ref

ugee

s Affa

irs O

ffice

Out

com

e3-

5 ye

ars

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n w

ho w

ere s

ubje

ct to

atta

cks a

s a re

sult

of

the o

ccup

atio

n by

age,

sex,

area

, hea

lth si

tuat

ion

of th

e chi

ldD

efen

se fo

r Chi

ldre

n Pa

lesti

neU

NIC

EFO

CH

AM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

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istry

of D

etai

nees

Insti

tutio

n fo

r C

arin

g fo

r Fa

mili

es o

f th

e M

arty

rs an

d W

ound

ed

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42

Part

icip

atio

n In

dica

tors

(Art

icle

s 12,

13,

15,

16,

17,

30)

Indi

cato

rSo

urce

Freq

uenc

yD

etai

lsAv

aila

bilit

y of

sp

ecifi

c le

gal

and

regu

lato

ry

fram

ewor

k, ex

ecut

ive r

egul

atio

ns, a

nd au

thor

ities

of

child

’s ri

ghts

in p

artic

ipat

ion

Fam

ily, j

udic

ial

syst

em, M

inist

ry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs,

Min

istry

of L

ocal

G

over

nmen

t, M

edia

, PLC

, M

inist

ry o

f Cul

ture

, Ed

ucat

ion,

Hea

lth,

civi

l soc

iety

Defi

nitio

n: t

his

indi

cato

r sh

ows

the

avai

labi

lity

of la

ws,

rule

s, an

d/or

re

gula

tions

that

stat

e on

part

icip

atio

n an

d ex

pres

sion

of o

pini

on o

r sho

w

the

right

in re

ceiv

ing

info

rmat

ion

and

givi

ng o

pini

ons.

They

also

show

m

eans

of a

ccou

ntab

ility

.

Incl

ude:

Nat

iona

l mea

sure

s and

pro

cedu

res t

hat g

rant

the c

hild

the r

ight

to

be h

eard

out

and

to p

artic

ipat

e in

the i

ssue

s rel

ated

to th

emTh

e le

gisla

tion

and

polic

ies

need

ed t

o en

sure

a w

ider

par

ticip

atio

n of

yo

uth

in th

e rep

rese

ntat

ion,

pol

itica

l, le

gisla

tive a

nd lo

cal b

odie

sEn

sure

the

suffi

cien

t int

egra

tion

of C

RC a

rtic

le 1

2 in

all t

he re

leva

nt n

atio

nal l

aws o

f rel

atio

n, as

wel

l as

adm

inist

rativ

e pro

cedu

res

Avai

labi

lity

of s

trat

egie

s an

d pl

ans

thro

ugh

whi

ch

the p

artic

ipat

ion

of ch

ild is

spec

ified

Judi

cial

syst

em,

min

istrie

s of

rela

tion

and

civi

l so

ciet

y ins

titut

ions

, PL

C

Defi

nitio

n: sh

ows t

he ex

isten

ce o

f str

ateg

ies t

hat a

im at

impl

emen

ting t

he

part

icip

atio

n of

the

child

thro

ugh

thei

r pr

ogra

ms t

hrou

gh w

hich

chi

ld

is be

ing

info

rmed

, giv

en th

e rig

ht to

expr

essio

n of

opi

nion

, infl

uenc

e on

deci

sions

, and

wei

ght t

o th

eir o

pini

on

Avai

labi

lity

of p

roce

dure

s th

at e

nsur

e ha

ving

bot

h ge

nder

s an

d th

e di

sabl

ed ri

ghts

to p

artic

ipat

e and

that

thei

r opi

nion

are r

espe

cted

Avai

labi

lity

of t

he n

eede

d fin

anci

al a

nd h

uman

re

sour

ces

to s

tren

gthe

n th

e rig

ht o

f th

e ch

ild i

n pa

rtic

ipat

ion

Defi

nitio

n: in

dica

tor s

how

s tha

t the

fina

ncia

l res

ourc

es th

e sta

te re

ceiv

ed

to b

udge

t an

d sp

end

on t

he p

artic

ipat

ion

of c

hild

ren

and

yout

h in

all

field

s, an

d th

e exp

erie

nced

and

qual

ified

hum

an re

sour

ces t

o ac

tivat

e the

pa

rtic

ipat

ion

of ch

ildre

n an

d yo

uth

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of C

alcu

latio

n: A

mou

nt o

f res

ourc

es al

loca

ted

and

the a

mou

nt sp

ent

on ch

ildre

n an

d yo

uth

Structural Indicators

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Avai

labi

lity o

f aw

aren

ess c

ampa

igns

and

educ

atio

nal p

rogr

ams t

hat a

im at

chan

ging

the

prev

ailin

g cul

ture

and

disc

ussin

g the

role

of b

oth

gend

ers a

nd th

e fac

tors

lead

ing t

o m

alpr

actic

e ag

ains

t mar

gina

lized

gro

ups,

and

othe

r har

mfu

l as

pect

s (su

ch as

early

mar

riage

)

Avai

labi

lity o

f stu

dies

and

repo

rts t

hat m

easu

re h

ow

effec

tive t

he m

edia

cam

paig

ns ar

e

Avai

labi

lity

of ch

ildre

n’s p

arlia

men

t on

the n

atio

nal

and

loca

l lev

elTa

king

the

child

’s op

inio

n on

the

cour

t pro

cedu

res

agai

nst h

im su

ch a

s pla

ce o

f res

iden

ce, t

estim

ony

in

cour

t, et

c.Av

aila

bilit

y of

tech

nolo

gica

l ser

vice

s in

the

rem

ote

and

mar

gina

lized

area

s

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nclu

sion

of ci

tizen

ship

and

belo

ngin

g con

cept

s in

the m

edia

and

natio

nal s

ervi

ces

Perc

enta

ge

of

actu

al

finan

cing

fo

r ch

ildre

n go

vern

men

tally

an

d in

tern

atio

nally

to

su

ppor

t sp

orts

, re

crea

tiona

l, cu

ltura

l an

d ar

tistic

act

iviti

es

amon

g chi

ldre

n an

d yo

uth

out o

f the

gene

ral b

udge

t

Min

istry

of

Plan

ning

/Fin

ance

Ann

ually

Num

ber o

f spo

rt an

d re

crea

tiona

l fac

ilitie

s and

yout

h ce

ntre

s es

peci

ally

equ

ippe

d fo

r fe

mal

es a

nd p

eopl

e w

ith

disa

bilit

ies

by

geog

raph

ical

di

strib

utio

n/di

sabi

lity t

ype/

activ

ity ty

pe/a

ge/s

ex.

PCBS

4 ye

ars

Num

ber

of o

rgan

izat

ions

wor

king

with

chi

ldho

od

and

yout

h/by

area

/sex

/age

/ ser

vice

typ

e (w

ork)

Inte

rior

and

loca

l go

vern

men

tA

nnua

lly

Perc

enta

ge

of

coun

cils,

m

unic

ipal

ities

an

d co

mm

unity

co

mm

ittee

s th

at

have

ch

ild

repr

esen

tatio

n

Hig

her

Cou

ncil

of

Yout

h an

d Sp

orts

Min

istry

of

Lo

cal

Gov

ernm

ent

Civ

il so

ciet

y in

stitu

tions

4 ye

ars

(dep

endi

ng

on t

he t

ime

perio

d ap

prov

ed

for

the

elec

tion

cycl

e)

Defi

nitio

n:

an in

dica

tor

to m

easu

re t

he

perc

enta

ge o

f co

unci

ls an

d m

unic

ipal

ities

tha

t im

plem

ent

the

polic

y of

chi

ld r

epre

sent

atio

n an

d str

engt

hen

thei

r act

ive p

artic

ipat

ion,

out

of t

he to

tal n

umbe

rW

ay o

f Cal

cula

tion:

Num

ber

of co

unci

ls o

ut o

f the

tota

l num

ber

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Num

ber o

f st

uden

t co

unci

ls co

mpa

red

to n

umbe

r of

scho

ols/

gove

rnm

enta

l/pr

ivat

eN

ote:

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

does

not

reco

gniz

e thi

s na

min

g

Hig

her C

ounc

il of

Yo

uth

and

Spor

tsM

inist

ry o

f Ed

ucat

ion

Ann

ually

Defi

nitio

n: a

n in

dica

tor t

o m

easu

re th

e im

plem

enta

tion

the

polic

y of

ch

ild re

pres

enta

tion

in th

e edu

catio

nal s

yste

m an

d po

licie

sW

ay o

f Cal

cula

tion:

Num

ber

of sc

hool

s tha

t hav

e st

uden

t co

unci

ls ou

t of

the t

otal

num

ber

A

ge G

roup

: 12-

less

than

18

year

s

Num

ber

of c

hild

ren’s

lib

rarie

s/ar

ea/g

over

nora

te/

resp

onsib

le p

arty

Hig

her C

ounc

il of

Yo

uth

and

Spor

tsM

inist

ry o

f Cul

ture

Ann

ually

Num

ber

of

spor

ts

play

grou

nds

and

equi

pped

fo

r ch

ildre

n co

mpa

red

to n

umbe

r of

chi

ldre

n /

gove

rnor

ates

/are

a/ab

sorp

tion

capa

city

Hig

her C

ounc

il of

Yo

uth

and

Spor

tsA

nnua

lly

Num

ber o

f org

aniz

atio

ns le

d by

child

ren

and

yout

h (p

arlia

men

ts, u

nion

s)by

age/

area

/disa

bilit

yM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

rA

nnua

lly

Num

ber

of tr

aini

ng p

rogr

ams

child

ren

rece

ived

in

jour

nalis

m,

plan

ning

, pr

oduc

ing,

and

pre

sent

ing

TV

and

radi

o pr

ogra

ms a

nd th

e med

ia sk

ills d

urin

g a c

erta

in ti

me p

erio

d

Rad

io, T

V an

d lo

cal

statio

nsA

nnua

lly

Perc

enta

ge o

f sp

ecia

lized

chi

ldre

n’s T

V p

rogr

ams

out o

f the

tota

l num

ber o

f pro

gram

sR

adio

, TV

and

loca

l pr

ivat

e sta

tions

Ann

ually

Num

ber o

f sp

ecia

lized

chi

ldre

n’s p

lays

by

area

/and

du

ring a

cert

ain

time p

erio

dM

inist

ry o

f Cul

ture

Ann

ually

Num

ber

of su

mm

er c

amps

and

par

ticip

ants

dur

ing

the s

umm

er b

y dist

ribut

ion/

age/

sex

Hig

her C

ounc

il of

Yo

uth

and

Spor

ts,

loca

l gov

ernm

ent,

mun

icip

aliti

es

Ann

ually

Num

ber

and

type

of

vo

lunt

ary

activ

ities

th

at

child

ren

and

yout

h pa

rtic

ipat

e in

dur

ing

a ce

rtai

n tim

e per

iod

Yout

h Fo

rum

s, lo

cal g

over

nmen

t, m

unic

ipal

ities

Ann

ually

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Num

ber o

f cul

tura

l and

recr

eatio

nal c

entr

es o

f chi

ld

by

geog

raph

ic

loca

tion/

activ

ity

type

/abs

orpt

ion

capa

city

Min

istry

of C

ultu

re,

PCBS

Ann

ually

Num

ber

of r

ecre

atio

nal

plac

es p

rovi

ded

by t

he

gove

rnm

ent

to c

hild

ren/

by

area

/gov

erno

rate

/age

/ty

pe

Loca

l Gov

ernm

ent,

mun

icip

aliti

esA

nnua

lly

Broa

dcas

ting h

ours

of c

hild

ren’s

pro

gram

s out

of t

he

tota

l bro

adca

sting

tim

e/w

eek

(Rad

io an

d T

V)

Rad

io, T

V an

d lo

cal

statio

nsA

nnua

lly

Num

ber o

f new

spap

ers t

hat i

ssue

a ch

ildre

n’s se

ctio

nM

inist

ry o

f Cul

ture

Ann

ually

Num

ber o

f ch

ildre

n’s w

eekl

y/m

onth

ly m

agaz

ines

Min

istry

of C

ultu

reA

nnua

lly

Aver

age

num

ber

of h

ours

chi

ldre

n sp

ent

wat

chin

g T

V b

y le

vel o

f edu

catio

n of

the

mot

her/

econ

omic

sit

uatio

n of

the f

amily

PCBS

4 ye

ars

Perc

enta

ge o

f ch

ildre

n an

d yo

uth

part

icip

ants

in

festi

vals/

age/

area

/nat

ure o

f fes

tival

/sex

Min

istry

of C

ultu

re

Perc

enta

ge o

f fam

ilies

mon

itorin

g th

e T

V, P

C a

nd

inte

rnet

use

by t

heir

child

ren

/ by n

atur

e of p

rogr

ams

/ num

ber o

f hou

rs

PCBS

4 ye

ars

Perc

enta

ge o

f you

th p

arlia

men

t can

dida

tes b

y ar

ea/

type

of e

lect

ion/

age/

sex

Cen

tral

Ele

ctio

n C

omm

issio

n, L

ocal

G

over

nmen

t

Acc

ordi

ng to

the

elec

tora

l cyc

le

Process Indicators Outcome Indicators

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Rig

hts o

f Chi

ldre

n w

ith D

isabi

lity (

Art

icle

23)

Indi

cato

rSo

urce

Freq

uenc

yD

efini

tion/

Det

ails

Avai

labi

lity

of s

peci

fic l

egal

fra

mew

ork,

exe

cutiv

e re

gula

tions

and

au

thor

ities

on

right

s of c

hild

ren

with

disa

bilit

yM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

PLC

The d

egre

e of h

arm

ony a

mon

gst a

ll th

e nat

iona

l law

s and

pol

icie

s tha

t pe

rtai

n to

child

ren

with

a di

sabi

lity

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsPL

CIC

HR

Avai

labi

lity

of n

atio

nal p

olic

ies,

plan

s and

bud

gets

nee

ded

to re

aliz

e th

e rig

hts o

f ch

ildre

n w

ith a

disa

bilit

y an

d gi

ving

them

the

acce

ss to

th

e nee

ded

serv

ices

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsH

ighe

r Cou

ncil

of D

isabi

lity

Avai

labi

lity

of m

onito

ring,

eval

uatio

n, ac

coun

tabi

lity

and

com

plai

nts

mec

hani

smM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Avai

labi

lity

of d

etai

led

and

clas

sified

list

of c

riter

ia o

n di

sabi

lity

and

serv

ices

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsA

ccor

ding

to

the

disa

bilit

y ca

rd t

hat

is be

ing

deve

lope

d at

the m

omen

t

Avai

labi

lity m

echa

nism

s to

mob

ilize

supp

ort a

nd so

lidar

ity an

d ra

ising

le

vels

of aw

aren

ess o

n th

e rig

hts o

f chi

ldre

n w

ith d

isabi

lity

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsC

ivil

soci

ety i

nstit

utio

nsN

umbe

r of

pol

icie

s, le

gisla

tions

and

pro

gram

s th

at t

arge

t ch

ildre

n w

ith a

disa

bilit

yM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

PLC

3 ye

ars

General Structural Indicators

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Perc

enta

ge o

f spe

ndin

g on

disa

bilit

ies a

nd c

hild

ren

with

a d

isabi

lity

by t

ype

of s

ervi

ce a

nd t

ype

of d

isabi

lity

and

durin

g a

cert

ain

time

perio

d by

all s

ervi

ce p

rovi

ders

, per

cent

age o

f sup

port

allo

cate

d fo

r the

di

sabi

lity s

ecto

r and

the p

erce

ntag

e allo

cate

d to

child

ren

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Fin

ance

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

Ann

ual –

3 ye

ars

(acc

ordi

ng to

pl

an)

Num

ber o

f pub

lic b

uild

ings

and

tran

spor

tatio

n eq

uipp

ed fo

r the

use

by

child

ren

with

disa

bilit

y by a

rea a

nd ye

ar o

f con

struc

tion

Min

istry

of L

ocal

Gov

ernm

ent,

mun

icip

aliti

es, M

inist

ry o

f Tr

ansp

orta

tion

3-5

year

s

Num

ber

of

reha

bilit

atio

n in

stitu

tions

an

d ce

ntre

s an

d sp

ecia

l ed

ucat

ion

cent

res c

once

rned

with

chi

ldre

n w

ith a

disa

bilit

y de

taile

d by

area

, abs

orpt

ion

capa

city

, typ

e of d

isabi

lity

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

r3-

5 ye

ars

Sour

ce: S

tudy

, The I

nter

natio

nal F

ound

atio

n fo

r the

Phy

sical

ly D

isabl

ed an

d C

riter

ia o

f M

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

and

Min

istry

of I

nter

ior

Num

ber/

Perc

enta

ge o

f pe

rson

nel

qual

ified

to

deal

with

chi

ldre

n w

ith a

disa

bilit

y an

d th

eir d

istrib

utio

n an

d sp

ecia

lty co

mpa

red

to th

e nu

mbe

r of c

hild

ren

with

a di

sabi

lity

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsC

ivil

soci

ety i

nstit

utio

nsU

NRW

A

Ann

ual

Payi

ng at

tent

ion

to th

e iss

ues o

f lic

ense

, re

gistr

atio

n, sp

ecia

lty, a

nd th

e ava

ilabi

lity o

f m

onito

ring

Deg

ree o

f im

plem

entin

g em

ploy

men

t of 3

-5%

of

han

dica

pped

in in

stitu

tions

Num

ber o

f med

ia an

d ra

dio

prog

ram

s tha

t tar

get t

he ri

ghts

of c

hild

ren

with

disa

bilit

y, pr

even

tion

and

early

det

ectio

n pe

r yea

rM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Med

iaU

NRW

AC

ivil

soci

ety i

nstit

utio

ns

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f aw

aren

ess c

ampa

igns

that

targ

et th

e rig

hts o

f chi

ldre

n w

ith

a disa

bilit

y, pr

even

tion

and

early

det

ectio

n pe

r yea

rC

ivil

soci

ety i

nstit

utio

nsM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Min

istry

of Y

outh

and

Spor

tsM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nPa

lesti

ne B

road

casti

ng

Cor

pora

tion

Ann

ual

Process Indicators

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Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n w

ho re

ceiv

e so

cial

ass

istan

ce b

y ty

pe (m

edic

ine,

heal

th in

sura

nce,

supp

ortiv

e too

ls, tr

eatm

ent,

etc.)

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ries

of c

once

rn s

uch

as

Min

istry

of H

ealth

and

Min

istry

of

Edu

catio

n

Ann

ual

Num

ber

of f

amili

es t

hat

have

acc

ess

to s

ervi

ces

for

child

ren

with

a

disa

bilit

y by

typ

e of

disa

bilit

y, ty

pe o

f se

rvic

e, ag

e, ar

ea, s

ocio

-ec

onom

ic si

tuat

ion,

educ

atio

nal l

evel

of p

aren

ts

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsA

nnua

l

Num

ber

of fa

mili

es t

hat

do n

ot h

ave

acce

ss t

o se

rvic

es fo

r ch

ildre

n w

ith a

disa

bilit

y and

the r

easo

ns b

ehin

d th

atSu

rvey

s3

year

s

Perc

enta

ge o

f chi

ldre

n w

ith a

disa

bilit

y who

still

go

to sc

hool

by s

tage

an

d ar

eaM

inist

ry o

f Edu

catio

nA

nnua

l

Perc

enta

ge o

f chi

ldre

n w

ith a

disa

bilit

y who

are n

ot in

scho

ol an

d th

e re

ason

s beh

ind

that

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsA

nnua

l

Perc

enta

ge o

f chi

ldre

n w

ho le

arn

in sp

ecia

l cen

tres

for c

hild

ren

with

di

sabi

litie

sC

ivil

soci

ety i

nstit

utio

nsM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Min

istry

of E

duca

tion

Ann

ual

Perc

enta

ge o

f disa

bilit

y rat

es am

ong c

hild

ren

deta

iled

by ca

use,

type

of

disa

bilit

y, ag

e, ar

ea, s

ocio

-eco

nom

ic si

tuat

ion,

enr

ollm

ent i

n sc

hool

s, se

x, a

cces

s to

bas

ic h

ealth

and

reh

abili

tatio

n se

rvic

es, e

tc. d

urin

g a

cert

ain

time p

erio

d

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs

Surv

eys o

f PC

BS

3 ye

ars

As p

er th

e Disa

bilit

y Law

199

9, P

ales

tine C

hild

La

w, D

isabi

lity S

urve

y of P

CBS

201

1

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n re

cord

ed in

the d

isabi

lity c

ard

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsA

nnua

l

Outcome Indicators

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49Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child

Gaps and ObstaclesAdministrative records, currently, only cover the information on those receiving certain services (regular enrollment in education, vaccines, birth records, children in dispute with the law, etc.), and do not hold any information on children that don’t have access to such services. There is still a need to develop such records, the methods of recording the information, and more training and developing the capabilities of personnel in order to improve the quality and availability of information recorded in the proper time. Furthermore, the development specific indicators, definitions and mechanisms of gathering, storing and analyzing the available information is needed, as most institutions depend on the information they receive and have a limited capability to research information from the field. This results in PCBS depending on the information it gathers by other means, such as the information gathered from surveys instead of fully depending on the administrative records. In addition, information classification requires more focus.

As previously mentioned, national surveys conducted by PCBS mostly include more information on the violation of the rights of the child in general, as it includes all areas in the OPT and benefits from the national census in preparing the sample. This requires PCBS and concerned executive bodies to develop a set of indicators that they are working on monitoring routinely. Many surveys depend on external funding and have not yet been institutionalized \ as main national surveys. This high dependency on funding to support the surveys led to the imposition of certain indicators that are being collected, based on the type of the project funded. Consequently, health and educational surveys are being done with a high degree of repetition, while surveys on children in need of protection remains rare due to lack of focus by donors on supporting them in this field.

Information gathering based on constantly changing measurements of population groups, definitions (and their types wide or narrow), timeframe, age group, areas, degree of details, and others criteria led to the formation of a big depot of data. However, it is not easy to try to benefit from such data as it is difficult to make comparisons, and a benchmark for the information has not been specified. Criteria differs based on the service providers, and the objective of information gathering. Additional services should be provided to marginalized groups of the population. Changing the definition leads to a change in the obligations related to it. Therefore, not unifying the criteria and definitions on the national level leads to children becoming a victim of the differences among the systems as per the service providers, and consequently of inequality and discrimination. Some examples on that:

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Example 1: Poverty Indicators:This indicator is considered on a high degree of sensitivity on the national level. The specification of the level of the poverty line and the extreme poverty line is connected to obligations on the SP towards the groups below the poverty line as an example. The increase in percentage means more obligations on the SP and Ministry of Social Affairs.

Example 2: Disability Indicators:The definition of the indicator and setting certain criteria obligates the SP to provide a package of services that depend on the degree of disability.

Example 3: School dropout Indicators:Ministry of Education has records on dropout rates and causes; however, the information doesn’t necessarily reveal the deprivation from education (by force) or the situation of the children who have dropped out of school.

Obstacles:• Political Will

• Financial Resources

• Human Resources (Knowledge, skills, degree of motivation)

Recommendations• Priority should be given to developing a national registry for surveys,clear, specific

indicators and methodologies, monitoring methods and sufficient skills to collect data inside the executive ministries of relation, PCBS, non-governmental organization, private sector and international organizations. Allocation of resources from the government towards children related to surveys should be increased.

• Work on developing specific indicators, definitions and mechanisms to collect data and allocating sufficient resources (technical and financial) to create room to develop systems on the level of governorates by which they can collect, store and analyze the available information on the national level.

• Sources of data should be identified clearly and the training on collecting reliable, valid and timely information and data on the indictors of child’s rights should be with ministries, bodies, foster homes and institutions that have children. All information should be classified by child’s age, sex, location of residence and socio-economic situation.

• Special attention should be given to data about marginalized children as data

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derived from different sources is not contradiction free. This process should entail coordination among partners from governmental bodies, civil institutions and the private sector who provide assistance and support to the marginalized children (poor children, children with a disability, juveniles, workers, Bedouins, refugees and children from marginalized areas such as what so called Area C, areas close to the Expansion wall, areas of contact, East Jerusalem, and Gaza).

• PCBS should conduct a national review for the definitions and criteria used in the survey to identify the degree of harmony with the definitions and criteria used in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the laws applicable in the country.

• Ministry teams responsible for preparing the administrative records related to the rights of the child on means of data gathering. Information shouldn’t only be limited to representing the cases which receive services; reports should include the violations and those who don’t receive services. The process should also be in harmony with the principles of the rights of the child and the Palestinian Child Law and consequently will affect the general framework of planning and policy drawing.

Way ForwardThis participatory process aims at institutionalizing the indicators of the rights of the child within institutions, ministries, regulations and national plans, therefore:

• PCBS should agree with the ministries of concern on the vision of mechanisms and sources of collecting and analyzing reliable national data (for example: is there a need to have an independent department in every ministry and central department for monitoring and evaluation, what are the surveys needed and the timeframe/right frequency to measure it, and consequently identifying the human resources and the budgets as a result of that, programs and services, and capabilities needed, role of UNRWA, civil society institutions, private sector, and specialized studies and research in feeding and analyzing the information; and the importance of having a specialized committee to analyze information and connecting the different subjects and sectors; evaluating the available data, its creditability, reliability to feed the national plans and setting the budgets based on facts and not only on impressions and perceptions). This is the principle of PCBS’s work and which is derived, in essence, from the national strategy of official statistics.

• There is also a need that children should be part of these efforts and that their points of view, opinions and participation should be heard out. From the suggested surveys during the next years, it is possible to address how children visualize themselves, their privacy, and how they are represented in the community, family, among peers, media; access to educational, health, social and recreational services and others.

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• Coordination between all partners to ensure the unification of definitions and criteria on the national level and approve it. Unifying systems and connecting them among all service providers and in all sectors. Due to its importance in identifying its obligations implicated in the laws, legislation, policies and services; identifying details as much as possible, degree of punishment and consequences implicated from the different violations of children’s rights. Based on that, memorandum of understandings should be reviewed by PCBS and the different ministries.

• Institutionalization of the process of data collection through the different directorates, sectors and institutions should be used as a database and a system to follow up cases and work with ministries of concern on developing an electronic form to fill with information on children who receive services and detailed information on them.

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Ann

ex

(1):

Lis

t of a

ll in

dic

ato

rs th

at w

ere

dis

cus

sed

dur

ing

the

wo

rksh

op

s:Q

uant

itativ

e Pro

tect

ion

Indi

cato

rs (A

rtic

les 3

, 5, 1

0, 1

9, 2

0, 3

7, 3

8)In

dica

tor

Sour

ceTy

peFr

eque

ncy

Det

ails

Num

ber o

f dom

estic

vio

lence

case

s aga

inst

child

ren

by se

x, ar

ea, l

evel

of

educ

atio

n of

par

ents

and

soci

o-ec

onom

ic si

tuat

ion

of th

e fam

ilyM

inist

ry

of

Soci

al

Affa

irs

– A

dmin

istra

tive R

ecor

dsPo

lice

UN

RWA

Ann

ual

The a

vaila

bilit

y of s

tudi

es o

n do

mes

tic vi

olen

ce

Num

ber

of a

nti-v

iolen

ce a

war

enes

s ca

mpa

igns

at

the

leve

l of

fam

ily,

scho

ol an

d co

mm

unity

Perc

enta

ge o

f wor

king

child

ren

deta

iled

by se

x, ag

e, ar

ea an

d ca

use,

leve

l of

educ

atio

n of

par

ents

, edu

catio

nal s

tage

of t

he ch

ild; t

ype,

natu

re, a

nd

hour

s of w

ork

and

aver

age p

ay

Min

istry

of L

abou

rPC

BS1-

3 ye

ars

Ann

ual

Num

ber

of a

war

enes

s ca

mpa

igns

tha

t ta

rget

chi

ldre

n an

d fa

mili

es o

n th

e su

bjec

ts o

f pro

tect

ion

and

haza

rds o

f chi

ld la

bour

, esp

ecia

lly w

hen

cont

radi

ctin

g with

thei

r hea

lth an

d ed

ucat

iona

l rig

hts

Num

ber

of

insti

tutio

ns c

once

rned

with

str

eet

child

ren

deta

iled

by

distr

ibut

ion,

type

, abs

orpt

ion

capa

city

, num

ber e

nrol

led

(sex

, age

, cau

se)

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

r3-

5 ye

ars

Num

ber o

f juv

enile

insti

tutio

nsM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Min

istry

of I

nter

ior

3-5

year

s

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n en

rolle

d in

the j

uven

ile in

stitu

tions

by s

ex, a

ge, a

rea,

caus

e, re

ason

Num

ber o

f ins

titut

ions

that

pro

vide

lega

l ass

istan

ce to

det

aine

d ju

veni

les

and

child

ren

Aver

age t

ime o

f det

entio

n an

d nu

mbe

r of a

rres

ts at

cent

res

Hig

her J

udic

ial C

ounc

ilA

ttor

ney G

ener

al’s

Offi

ceIC

HR

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n de

tain

ed b

efor

e tria

l

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Num

ber a

nd p

erce

ntag

e of c

hild

ren

deta

ined

at in

stitu

tions

not

spec

ified

fo

r chi

ldre

nN

umbe

r of

insti

tutio

ns t

hat

prov

ide

reha

bilit

atio

n an

d re

-inte

grat

ion

serv

ices

to ch

ildre

n vi

ctim

s of v

iolen

ce an

d ab

use,

juve

nile

s, an

d w

orke

rs

by d

istrib

utio

n, ab

sorp

tion

capa

city

, typ

e, an

d ty

pe o

f ser

vice

Min

istry

of

So

cial

A

ffairs

Adm

inist

rativ

e Rec

ords

3-5

year

s

Num

ber

of c

hild

ben

efici

arie

s of

reh

abili

tatio

n an

d re

-inte

grat

ion

prog

ram

s (ju

veni

les,

wor

kers

, vic

tims

of v

iolen

ce a

nd e

xplo

itatio

n) b

y ag

e, ar

ea, s

ex ,c

ause

, etc

.

Min

istry

of

So

cial

A

ffairs

Adm

inist

rativ

e Rec

ords

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f rep

orte

d ca

ses o

f offe

nce,

mal

trea

tmen

t and

exp

loita

tion

at

hom

e, sc

hool

, soc

iety

, det

entio

n an

d ar

rest

cent

res,

and

care

cent

res

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsPo

lice

Ann

ual

Num

ber

of w

orke

rs w

ith c

hild

ren

in t

he fi

elds

of

prot

ectio

n su

ch a

s ju

dges

, pro

secu

tors

, sec

urity

, juve

nile

justi

ce, p

sych

olog

ists a

nd so

cial

ists

and

prob

atio

n offi

cers

Min

istry

of

Soci

al A

ffairs

– S

ocia

l Pr

otec

tion

Net

wor

kA

nnua

l

Num

ber o

f day

care

hom

es b

y typ

e, ar

ea an

d ab

sorp

tion

capa

city

to h

elp

wor

king

par

ents

in ra

ising

the c

hild

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs3-

5 ye

ars

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n de

priv

ed fr

om p

aren

ts’ c

are

or b

y ca

uses

, are

a, ag

e an

d so

cio-

econ

omic

situ

atio

nM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Surv

eys

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f orp

hane

d ch

ildre

n by

sex,

age,

and

area

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsZa

kat

Ann

ual

Num

ber

of o

rpha

n re

siden

ce i

nstit

utio

ns b

y ar

ea, d

istrib

utio

n, t

ype,

abso

rptio

n ca

paci

tyM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Zaka

tM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

r

3-5

year

s

Num

ber o

f spe

cial

pro

tect

ion

case

s tha

t wer

e pr

oces

sed

by M

inist

ry o

f So

cial

Affa

irs d

urin

g a ce

rtai

n tim

e per

iod

Min

istry

of

So

cial

A

ffairs

Adm

inist

rativ

e Rec

ords

Ann

ual

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Num

ber

of a

dopt

ed c

hild

ren,

or

unde

r sp

onso

rshi

p in

side

and

outs

ide

the c

ount

ryM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Min

istry

of I

nter

ior

Bure

au o

f Chi

ef Ju

dge

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n w

ho li

ve w

ith o

ne p

aren

tM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Bure

au o

f Chi

ef Ju

dge

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f per

iodi

cal h

ealth

revi

ews t

he ch

ild is

subj

ect t

o in

care

hom

esM

inist

ry o

f Soc

ial A

ffairs

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f per

iodi

cal j

udic

ial r

evie

ws t

he ca

re in

stitu

tions

cond

uct

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsBu

reau

of C

hief

Judg

eA

nnua

l

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n ca

ught

in d

rug

and

psyc

hotr

opic

subs

tanc

e rel

ated

ca

ses

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsPo

lice

Ann

ual

Num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n w

ho re

ceiv

ed re

habi

litat

ion

and

heal

th se

rvic

es w

ho

wer

e affe

cted

with

dru

gsN

umbe

r of t

reat

men

t and

reha

bilit

atio

n ce

ntre

s, or

cent

res t

hat p

rovi

de

serv

ices

to d

rug a

buse

rs an

d ta

rget

child

ren

affec

ted

with

dru

gs b

y typ

e of

insti

tutio

n, se

rvic

e, di

strib

utio

n, ab

sorp

tion

capa

city

and

num

ber o

f the

en

rolle

d du

ring a

cert

ain

time p

erio

d

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsM

inist

ry o

f Hea

lthM

inist

ry o

f Int

erio

r

3-5

year

s

Num

ber

of c

hild

ren

vict

ims

of m

ines

and

arm

ed c

onfli

ct b

y ar

ea, a

ge,

sex,

and

caus

e Po

lice

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsC

hild

ren

Def

ense

Inte

rnat

iona

lU

NIC

EFM

inist

ry o

f Hea

lthO

CH

A

Ann

ual

Num

ber

of s

tudi

es t

hat

addr

esse

d th

e eff

ect

of a

rmed

con

flict

on

the

child

ren

Num

ber o

f po

or c

hild

ren

by a

rea,

sex,

age

, situ

atio

n of

the

head

of t

he

fam

ily, t

he h

ealth

and

educ

atio

nal s

ituat

ion,

etc.

Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irsU

NRW

ASu

rvey

s/PC

BS

1-3

year

s/ac

cord

ing t

o th

e na

tiona

l pla

ns

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Perc

enta

ge o

f fam

ilies

bel

ow p

over

ty li

ne an

d ha

ve ch

ildre

n (d

etai

led

by

distr

ibut

ion,

leve

l of e

duca

tion,

num

ber o

f chi

ldre

n, h

ealth

situ

atio

n of

th

e chi

ldre

n, ch

roni

c dise

ase o

r disa

bilit

y, et

c.)N

umbe

r of s

tudi

es th

at ad

dres

sed

the e

ffect

of p

over

ty o

n ch

ildre

nN

umbe

r of c

hild

refu

gees

(det

aile

d by

geog

raph

ical

dist

ribut

ion,

age,

sex,

so

cio-

econ

omic

situ

atio

n, ed

ucat

ion,

etc.)

PCBS

UN

RWA

Ref

ugee

s Affa

irs O

ffice

3-5

year

s

Num

ber

of t

rain

ing

prog

ram

s th

at t

arge

t ch

ild p

rote

ctio

n w

orke

rs b

y en

tity,

type

of t

rain

ing,

num

ber o

f par

ticip

ants

, dist

ribut

ion

(uni

fied

and

syst

emat

ic o

n th

e nat

iona

l lev

el)

Min

istry

of

Soci

al A

ffairs

– S

ocia

l Pr

otec

tion

Net

wor

kC

ivil

soci

ety i

nstit

utio

nsU

NRW

APe

rcen

tage

of t

he a

ctua

l spe

ndin

g on

chi

ld p

rote

ctio

n ou

t of t

he to

tal

spen

ding

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Prot

ectio

n Q

ualit

ativ

e Ind

icat

ors

Indi

cato

rSo

urce

Type

Freq

uenc

yD

etai

lsAv

aila

bilit

y of c

hild

hood

pro

tect

ions

net

wor

kAv

aila

ble o

r una

vaila

ble

Type

Impl

emen

tatio

nAv

aila

bilit

y of s

peci

aliz

ed d

epar

tmen

ts in

child

pro

tect

ion

in th

e m

inist

ries c

once

rned

; Min

istry

of S

ocia

l Affa

irs, M

inist

ry o

f Lab

our,

Polic

e, co

urts

Avai

labi

lity o

f leg

al, l

egisl

ativ

e and

pol

icy f

ram

ewor

k fo

r the

pro

tect

ion

of th

e chi

ldAv

aila

bilit

y of l

ong t

erm

pla

n fo

r the

pro

tect

ion

of th

e chi

ld (h

uman

an

d fin

anci

al re

sour

ces n

eede

d, p

rogr

ams)

Avai

labi

lity o

f eth

ical

and

coun

selin

g crit

eria

to p

rote

ct th

e chi

ld fr

om

all f

orm

s of v

iolen

ce an

d in

all l

ocat

ions

Avai

labi

lity o

f pro

cedu

res t

o pr

otec

t the

child

agai

nst a

buse

, nee

d,

begg

ing,

evas

ion,

neg

ligen

ce, t

ortu

re, e

xplo

itatio

n, an

d ph

ysic

al an

d ps

ycho

logi

cal v

iolen

ce.

Avai

labi

lity n

atio

nal a

nd u

nifie

d de

finiti

ons o

f vio

lence

, abu

se, p

hysic

al

and

psyc

holo

gica

l abu

se, n

eglig

ence

, phy

sical

pun

ishm

ent,

etc.

Avai

labi

lity p

roce

dure

s to

supp

ort p

aren

ts an

d le

gal g

uard

ians

to ra

ise

the c

hild

Avai

labi

lity o

f sys

tem

atic

mon

itorin

g and

acco

unta

bilit

y mec

hani

sms

for a

ll ch

ild ca

re an

d pr

otec

tion

insti

tutio

ns.

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58

Rig

ht o

f the

child

in h

ealth

and

surv

ival

(Art

icle

s 6, 1

8, 2

4)Q

uant

itativ

e Ind

icat

ors

Sour

ce (C

urre

ntly

)10Ty

peFr

eque

ncy

Det

ails

Mor

talit

y ra

te

of

infa

nts,11

by

ca

uses

, tim

e pe

riod,

ge

ogra

phic

al

distr

ibut

ion

by (g

over

nora

te) 12

, sex

, age

grou

p, so

cio-

econ

omic

situ

atio

n,

and

the l

evel

of e

duca

tion

of th

e mot

her.

Min

istry

of H

ealth

– H

ealth

In

form

atio

n C

entr

e – A

dmin

istra

tive

Rec

ords

Min

istry

of I

nter

ior

Avai

labl

eA

nnua

lA

que

stion

naire

re

gard

ing d

ecea

sed

infa

nts u

nder

on

e yea

r of a

ge is

av

aila

ble,

but d

oesn

’t in

clud

e cla

ssifi

catio

n by

the s

ocio

-ec

onom

ic si

tuat

ion

and

the l

evel

of

educ

atio

n of

the

mot

her.

Perc

enta

ge o

f ch

ildre

n w

ho s

uffer

fro

m m

alnu

triti

on in

clud

ing

thos

e w

ho su

ffer c

hron

ic m

alnu

triti

on (A

nem

ia, w

astin

g, lo

w w

eigh

t, st

untin

g,

vita

min

A d

efici

ency

, iod

ine d

efici

ency

) or a

cute

mal

nutr

ition

or d

ue to

la

ck o

f cle

an w

ater

by

age,

area

, sex

, soc

io-e

cono

mic

situ

atio

n an

d th

e le

vel o

f edu

catio

n of

the m

othe

r, an

d tim

e per

iod.

Min

istry

of H

ealth

– H

ealth

In

form

atio

n C

entr

e and

Nut

ritio

n Su

rvei

llanc

e - A

dmin

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Perc

enta

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f mot

hers

who

hav

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ealth

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ealth

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form

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Perc

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Perc

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62

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Hou

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Avai

labi

lity

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roce

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Avai

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67Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child

Rig

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69Indicators of the Rights of the Palestinian Child

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Annex (2): List of invitees and participants* in the national and internal workshops

Name Institution EmailPalestinian Central Bureau of StatisticsJawad Al-Saleh*

Khalid Abu Khalid*Faten Abu Qare’*

Protection GroupMa’moun Al-Oda Ministry of Labour [email protected] Kawther Al-Mughrabi* Ministry of Social Affairs [email protected] Khalid Al-Barghouthi Ministry of Social Affairs - PovertyRaed Nazzal* Ministry of Social Affairs [email protected] May Abdel Hadi* Ministry of Social Affairs - Orphans [email protected] Khalil Tannous* Ministry of Social Affairs [email protected] Ameen Independent Commission for the

Human [email protected]

Khalid Sabateen Police [email protected] Wafaa’ Mu’amar Police [email protected]

Nahid Freitekh Palestine Legislative Council [email protected] Farid Al-Jallad Higher Judicial Council [email protected] Rifat Kassis/Ayed Abu Qteish Children Defense International [email protected] Fadwa Al-Shae’r* Ministry of Interior [email protected] Sawsan Azzam Ministry of Interior [email protected] Daraghmeh* Ministry of InteriorLiali Siam* Ministry of Interior [email protected]

UNRWA

Disability GroupHanaa’ Al-Qaimary* Ministry of Social Affairs - Disability [email protected] Sonya Helou* Ministry of Social Affairs [email protected] Ziad Amro* Ministry of Social Affairs Shifa Shakha Ministry of Education [email protected]

Higher Council of Disability Rebal* General Union of the Handicapped [email protected]

UNRWAAllam Jarrar Medical Relief Society [email protected] Rabah Jabr Red Crescent [email protected]

Participation GroupEman Odeh Ministry of Culture [email protected]

Mohammad Daraghmeh* Ministry of Culture [email protected]

Waleed Mousa Youth and Sports [email protected] Husseini Nayzak Foundation [email protected]

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Hania Al-Bitar Pyalara [email protected] Elham Abdel Qadir Ministry of Education [email protected] Rasha Suleiman Ministry of Local Government [email protected]

MAAN [email protected] Issa Rabadi MAAN [email protected]

Tamer Foundation [email protected] Nazek Anabtawi* Red Crescent [email protected]

Qattan Foundation [email protected]

Education GroupReema Kilani Ministry of Education [email protected] Saadeh Hammoudeh Ministry of Education [email protected] Amal Hammad* Ministry of Education [email protected] Munjid Suleiman* Ministry of Education [email protected] Muhannad Beidas UNRWA [email protected]

UNESCOUNICEFTamer Foundation [email protected] Qattan Foundation [email protected] Early Childhood resources centRE [email protected]

Health GroupDr. Waleed Al-Khatib* Ministry of Health [email protected] Dr. Jawad Al-Bitar* Ministry of Health [email protected] Dr. Qasem Maani Ministry of Health – Planning [email protected] Ilham Shamasna* Ministry of Health [email protected] Hijaz* Ministry of Health [email protected] Rayyan* Ministry of Health [email protected] Alaa’ Abu Al-Rub* Ministry of Health [email protected] Lina Bahar* Ministry of Health [email protected] Dr. Khalida Jarrar* Ministry of Health [email protected] Majeda Al-Saidi Ministry of HealthTaghreed Yasin Ministry of HealthJamila Dababneh Ministry of HealthRita Giacman Bir Zeit University – Public Health

[email protected]

Dr. Samia Halileh Bir Zeit University – Public Health Institute

[email protected]

Dr. Ummaya Khammash UNRWA [email protected] Dr. Bassam Madi* UNRWA [email protected]. Najwa Rizkallah UNICEF [email protected]

World Health OrganizationRami Habash Medical Relief Society [email protected] Anwar Dwekat Red Crescent [email protected] Sandouka Juzoor [email protected] Jennifer Dabis* Juzoor [email protected]

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Ibrahim Lada’ah Medical Work Committees [email protected] Union of Health Care Committees [email protected]

GeneralMirna Jabr* Ministry of Planning and

Administrative [email protected]

Salwa Massad Bir Zeit University [email protected] Salam Kanaan Save the Children

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