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20 February 2008 - 27 May 2008

This distance learning course is a basic introduction to measuring and monitoring the status of children, including basic health and welfare, education, civil rights and freedoms, and special protection measures. The course will address the full cycle of monitoring, including tool development; methodologies for carrying out monitoring (both organizationally as well as through the involvement of children); and the application of results for improving the promotion and protection of children's human rights.

Learners will explore different indicators and indexes already in use and the basics of constructing a social indicator. Through a blending of theoretical and case study material, the course will illustrate procedures for the appraisal, selection, development and analysis of indicator data, although highly technical aspects of mathematical manipulation of indicators and statistical regression will not be addressed.

The course involves approximately 60 hours of reading, on-line working groups, assignments, and interaction among students and the instructor, and is offered over a 13-week period beginning on 20 February 2008. The course will integrate active and participatory learning approaches within activities and assignments, with an emphasis on reflective and collaborative learning. Participants will do the required reading, prepare interim and final project assignments, including case studies, and participate in group discussions.

The maximum number of course participants is 25. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Participation. It is also possible to audit the course.

Course outline

Part I. Introduction to Children's Rights

Week 1. Types of children's rights
Week 2. Structures and processes promoting and protecting children's rights

Part II. Indicator Use in Monitoring

Week 3. Qualities of a good indicator and child-centered statistics
Week 4. Indicators commonly used to measure children's rights
Week 5. Constructing social indicators
Week 6. Collection and interpretation of indicators (including disaggregation of data and integration of data across agencies)

Part III. Monitoring Children Requiring Special Protection

Week 7. Children in situations of emergency (refugees, armed conflict)
Week 8. Children in contact with the law
Week 9. Children in situations of exploitation

Part IV. Methodology of Monitoring

Week 10. Integrating children's rights monitoring within a human rights operation or NGO program
Week 11. Children's participation in the monitoring of children's rights
Week 12. Community approach to monitoring

Part V. Using Monitoring to Improve the Promotion and Protection of Children's Human Rights

Week 13. Preparation of monitoring reports
Week 14. Strategies for using monitoring reports to promote and protect children's human rights

Level: professional

Location: Internet (e-learning)

Tuition, fee, lodging: The course tuition fee is € 525 for residents of OECD countries and € 200 for permanent residents of non-OECD countries. Tuition for auditors is € 200 for residents of OECD countries and € 70 for permanent residents of non-OECD countries. There are no scholarships available for this course. The deadline for applications is 1 December 2007. Application can be submitted on-line at: http://www.hrea.org/courses/14E.html

Contact Information:
Sandra Quintin
HREA
Distance Learning Programme
PO Box 382396
Cambridge, MA 02238-2396
USA
Tel: +1 978-341-0200
Fax: +1 978-341-0201
E-mail: applications@hrea.org
Web: http://www.hrea.org