Three years after it was formed, the Karnataka Child Rights Observatory (KCRO) took stock of its work on Friday.
Three years after it was formed, the Karnataka Child Rights Observatory (KCRO) took stock of its work on Friday. The observatory has striven to create a data on issues related to children.
Workshops and training sessions have been conducted, to aid the work of those who seek to protect the rights of children.
Information gathered in the districts was used by organisations involved in the KCRO network during the campaign for elections to the Lok Sabha in 2008.
Even the UN has drawn on the work of the KCRO.The organisation has also taken up an analysis of the budget, to assess how it could improve the lot of children.
Child Rights Trust, one of the NGOs networked with the KCRO, has compiled a list of MPs from the state to know how many times each of them has raised questions relating to children in parliament.
A perusal of the allocation of funds from the MP’s Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme found that only 9.66% of the total funds were used for education-related work in 2007-2008.
Since its launch, KCRO has thrust to the fore issues related to children.
They have scanned party manifestoes, and advocated for children with political parties. Karuna Bishnoy, Unicef, New Delhi, who was present as the KCRO looked back on its work, said that the information and data gathered by the organisation could feed into national-level policy-making.
The unique advantage of involving those working with children, as well as those in the communities at the grass-roots level marked the work of the KCRO, said Bishnoy, adding, “This helps build a collective voice involving NGOs working on various child rights issues.”
Nina Nayak, chairperson, Karnataka State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, said that a pool of professionals in the field of child rights should be created. KCRO could take up skill-building exercises in fields like data collection and social audits, she said, adding that there was need to study judgements in the courts, so that these can be cited to force the executive to act when child rights are violated.
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