Developing ‘Rights Based’ Approaches

Work with a range of organisations to consider ‘rights based’ approaches in relation to specific interventions or areas of policy/ practice has included:

Rights-based Approaches to Children ‘At Risk of Offending’

Feedback to staff and managers of the five projects delivering the ‘Early Intervention for the Prevention of Offending’ Programme

Child Rights Indicators

Developing Child Rights Indicators (Save the Children NI) 2006-2007

While part-time Policy and Strategy Adviser at Save the Children NI, I developed an overview of the child rights work undertaken by Save the Children in the Southern Area and with the Children and Young People’s Unit of OFMDFM (including interviews with key partners) …

Periodic Reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

2008 Northern Ireland NGO Alternative Report and Additional Information (Save the Children NI/ Children’s Law Centre) 2008

Part-time ‘Children’s Human Rights Adviser: UNCRC’ to develop the Save the Children NI/ Children’s Law Centre partnership’s contribution to the process of periodic reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about implementation of the UNCRC in Northern Ireland.

Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland

Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland: Children’s Report (Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People) 2005

Production of a children’s version of the 304-page report detailing research conducted by a team of academics about the state of children’s rights in Northern Ireland in 2004 for the first Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People [NICCY].