Implementation: 15 August – 15 October 2013
The Child Rights Centre organised and realised a training in cooperation and with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia
Starting from the fact that the Republic of Serbia is currently working on the second and third periodic report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols, it is planned that the Coalition for Monitoring Child Rights in Serbia begin work on the preparation of the Periodic alternative report. Since the organisations gathered around the Coalition for Monitoring Child Rights in Serbia meet for the first time with the process of periodic reporting to the Committee, it was necessary to introduce them to the process, to strengthen their capacity and empower them for future work in this field. For this purpose, the Child Rights Centre, with the support and co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia has developed a package of training and on 15 and 16 October 2013 conducted training with civil society organisations gathered around the Coalition for Monitoring Child Rights in Serbia.
In order to raise the capacity of civil society organisations in the process of monitoring and reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child materials which were presented to participants during training and which would be the basis for further work were prepared. The following materials were developed: Review of the Universal Periodic Review and analysis of the recommendations made for the Republic of Serbia within the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review from the aspect of child rights; Preparatory material which included the reporting process to the Committee on the Rights of the Child; customised guidelines for periodic reporting of the state before the Committee on the Rights of the Child; matrix for the preparation of alternative periodic reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols.
