Report from the workshop on NGO reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Stockholm 11-12 may 2007

To monitor the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is one of the most important aspects of the work of a child rights based organisation. Save the Children Sweden has been supporting the production of reports from NGO’s and NGO Coalitions to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child since the early 90’s. In the beginning of 2007 Save the Children Sweden was asked to convene a workshop on exchange of experiences with the Save the Children domestic programme in producing the NGO report.Thus, five partner organisations from Croatia, Estonia, Moldova, Romania and Serbia and Save the Children Sweden domestic programme were invited to a workshop which took place on 11-12 May 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden.The workshop highlighted the work of the Committee, what the Committee needs from the NGO reports, instruments to be included in the reporting process, how to involve children and young people in the process and how to work with networks and/or coalitions when reporting