Realising rights for children - good practice in Eastern and Southern Africa

Harmonisation of national laws with Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)-Country reviews

Published by: African Child Policy Forum, 2007
Via: Eldis

This is a regional examination of the extent of harmonisation of national laws relating to children under the umbrella of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This report reviews and analyses how far countries in Eastern and Southern African have gone in implementing the principles of the CRC, and how well they have built the recognition of children's rights into their legal systems. It looks at different practices across six countries in East and Southern Africa with different legal systems and highlights good practices, their impacts, key actors and lessons learnt with the aim to offer models for comparison and possible replication to other countries in the region. The case studies are from Lesotho, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar and Uganda.

The report is designed for use by governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other interested actors in the field of children’s rights to help inform implementation of the CRC in their own countries.
(http://www.africanchildforum.org/Documents/Good_Practice.pdf)