Child Rights Monitoring in Eastern Europe and Central Asia EUROSTAT March 2015
Dec 31, 2015
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UNICEF Goals
Progressive Realization of Children’s Rights to Survival, Development and Protection and
Reduced Equity Gaps
In Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, national developmental indicators can appear quite good – but national averages can mask significant disparities between those who have and those who have not.
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Positive National Trends• In our region equity gaps in a number of areas are smaller
compared to other regions and access to services continues to improve.
Example: Skilled Delivery Care
0 20 40 60 80 100
Coverage gap between the poorest (red) and richest (blue) quintiles (% )
East Asia,Pacific
Central Asia,Europe
Latin America,Caribbean
Middle East,North Africa
South Asia
Sub-SaharanAfrica
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But the not so good news is ...
Despite economic and social gains in our region, there are still persistent equity gaps
Figure 1: Rural/urban rates of preschool enrolment (Ar, Mo, Kg) or attendance (FMa, BH)
Supporting Governments to improve the availability of reliable, comparable and representative data on children in the region
Year of fieldwork Sample size
Turkmenistan 2015 6,000
Kazakhstan 2015 16,800
Serbia 2014 7,351
Serbia (Roma settlements) 2014 1,976
Kyrgyzstan 2014 7,190
Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 2013-14 4,870
Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) - (Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian Communities)
2013-14 1,266
Montenegro 2013 4,596
Montenegro (Roma settlements) 2013 685
Other Examples of Statistical Systems Strengthening Efforts in the Region:
• Collaboration with the Washington Group on Disability Statistics and NSOs on the devt and testing of tools and methods for collecting data on people/children with disabilities. (Montenegro, Serbia, Kazakhstan)
• Support to NSS in establishing real-time monitoring systems e.g. Turkey e-EMIS, Romania ISS, Kyrgyzstan e-register etc.
• Support to NSO’s to introduce a deprivation module to their HBS (Azerbaijan & Ukraine)
• Capacity building on ESSPROS (BiH)• Support for additional analysis and dissemination of statistics
(Kyrgystan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Albania, etc.)• TA for surveys and census (Moldova, Georgia)