el ECTION OF A REGIONAL CANDIDATE FOR THE LATINAMERICAN AND A REGIONAL CANDIDATE FOR DE THE CARIBBEAN TO INTEGRATE THE NGO ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR THE FOLLOW UP OF THE OBSERVATIONS RESULTI NG FROM THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE OF UN.
el ECTION OF A REGIONAL CANDIDATE FOR THE NGO ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR THE FOLLOW UP OF THE OBSERVATIONS RESULTI NG FROM THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE OF UN.
All the NGOs and networks of the Latin American and the Caribbean region are being asked to propose candidates to be chosen by the region to be members of the NGO World Advisory Council for the follow up advocacy of the observations resulting from the Study of Violence of the UN
All the NGOs or NGO networks may suggest a candidate according to the requirements mentioned bel ow whether these are in direct contact with redlamyc or not. Therefore please circulate this communiqué among all the NGOs or NGO networks you consider may present a candidate to be el ected.
After the candidates are presented ,they will be el ected virtually by all the organizations who receive this communiqué through the redlamyc bulletin. If there are addresses that do not receive this and seem important to you, please do not hesitate to send us their data that we may integrate them to the general list.
The data of the candidate are to be received by march 9th.
Guidel ines in order to send the data of a candidate for the NGO Advisory Council
A CALL TO NGO REGIONAL NETWORKS
for nominations for regional representatives for the
new NGO ADVISORY COUNCIL to the UN SG’s Study on Violence against Children
Background:
In October 2006, the Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children was presented to the UN General Assembly. The GA asked the Independent Expert to submit to the General Assembly at its 2007 session a report on progress made in the initial phase of the follow-up and to anticipate the necessary strategy for follow-up to the implementation of the study. The Assembly specified this should be done in consultation with the UN and NGOs.
On several occasions Paulo Pinheiro has acknowledged with appreciation the strong support that he received from NGOs during the study process, including their capacity for producing coordinated inputs.
On those same occasions he encouraged the NGOs to reconstitute an advisory body to encourage and maintain NGO involvement at national, regional and international level s in follow-up advocacy with governments, UN agencies and others for full implementation of the UNSG's Study's recommendations. A previous body, the NGO Advisory Panel that was created at the beginning of the study process to support Pinheiro in conducting the study, officially ended its work in October, when the Study was finalized and presented.
NGOs have agreed they should respond positivel y and in consultation with Paulo Pinheiro and Jaap Doek, decided to start a process to constitute a new NGO Advisory Council.
The new NGO Advisory Council is expected to have 18 members: 9 representatives from national or regional NGOs, “representing” the nine regions designated for regional consultations for the Study, and 9 “international” members sel ected from international NGOs, with different nomination and sel ection processes.
Formation of the new NGO Advisory Council:
Nominations are invited for membership of the new NGO Advisory Council to the SG’s Study on VAC. Please note that candidates should be nominated through a transparent process involving any network of NGOs established in each region rel ation to the UNSG’s Study process and the regional consultations hel d in connection with it. They should come from regional or national NGOs, not international NGOs.
The regions are the ones where the UN Study hel d consultations during 2005: the Caribbean, East Asia and Pacific, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia, West and Central Africa.
NGOs in each region should establish their own procedure for sel ecting a regional representative. The sel ection process should be transparent and aim at nominating one representative per region. Regions are strongly encouraged to also involve some appropriate independent el ement in the sel ection process. Each region is expected to sel ect its candidate by 9 March 2007.
Members should be appointed as representatives of organisations that are activel y involved in work of violence against children and committed to follow-up to the Study in the region. The representative should also commit to liaise with the NGOs in the region and to link them to the Council and vice-versa.
The Council is expected to have 18 members (9 regional representatives, from national or regional NGOs, and 9 “international” members sel ected from international NGOs (a separate sel ection process is taking place at international level ). English will be the primary language of communication.
The sel ection of international members is being coordinated by a small NGO sub-group (including the convenor of the NGO Group for the CRC’s Subgroup on Children and Violence, the former chair of the NGO Advisory Panel for the Study, and an NGO representative to the Study’s Editorial Board), in consultation with Paulo Pinheiro and Jaap Doek, former chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The role of the Advisory Council:
To encourage and maintain NGO involvement at national, regional and international level s in follow-up advocacy with governments, UN agencies and others for full implementation of the UNSG’s Study recommendations;
In particular to advocate for a Special Representative to the SG on violence against children and to work with a SR when appointed;
To work with the Independent Expert and the Inter-Agency Working Group, particularly in identifying key priorities for the working group and its members and devel oping follow-up activities and strategies to ensure effective implementation of the Study’s recommendations;
To identify and transmit important information regarding VAC from the fiel d level to the SRSG and other appropriate UN bodies;
To use and strengthen existing information channel s/mechanisms (e.g. CRIN, NGO Group mailing lists, etc.) to inform the child rights NGO community regarding the follow-up of the UNSG’s Study on VAC and its implementation;
To be strongly and systematically connected to the proposed Youth Council in order to support continued and increased participation of children in follow-up;
To participate in monitoring the implementation of the Study’s recommendations by member states.
Nomination form
CANDIDATE’S NAME:
FULL ADDRESS:
PHONE: FAX:
E MAIL:
GENDER: AGE:
ORGANISATION(s) OF THE CANDIDATE:
NOMINATING ORGANISATION:
CONTACT DETAILS:
CONTACT PERSON:
PHONE: FAX:
E-MAIL:
PROFESSIONAL Rel ATIONSHIP TO THE CANDIDATE:
Members should be sel ected on the basis of the following criteria:
Commitment to full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the recommendations of the SG’s Study on Violence against Children;
Ppersonal expertise in advocacy and/or programmatic initiatives on violence against children, including at least one of the settings (home, school, care and justice systems, community, workplace) covered by the study;
Represent organizations that are activel y involved in work on violence against children, and committed to follow-up to the study;
Able to contribute activel y to the Advisory Council, including participation in e-mail consultations and occasional meetings, and have the support of their organization for their participation;
Able to understand, communicate and write in English which will be the working language of the NGO Advisory Panel
Regional el ements
Previous participation in the regional consultation and connection to regional coordinating mechanisms for follow-up, if existing
Commitment to serve as a liaison for the NGOs in the region and between them and the Council
Candidates should provide a brief description of their organisation and the rel evance of its activities to the implementation of the Study. They should also provide no more than 500 words indicating their rel evant background and expertise and rel ating them to each of the above criteria.
The nominating organisation should send details of the candidate together with an explanation of the process of sel ection.
Nomination form, description of the regional representative’s organisation, description of the candidate’s background and expertise and the explanation of the sel ection process should be sent by 9 March 2007