Assessment : Aspiration 10

Anglais

By 2020, States –

  • should have adopted national legislation to institutionalise and formalise a process to involve children in parliamentary processes and in the operation of child-specific institutions;
  • should have considered the views of children and young people in the monitoring and accountability of all laws, policies and programmes affecting children.
  • Should have adopted a nation-wide parenting education program to educate parents how to involve a child in a family decision-making process on all matters concerning the child, to grant a child the opportunity to ask questions and how to give due weight to such views based on the child’s maturity and evolving capacity
  • By 2040, States –
  • At the family level, a culture of inclusive participation is established, a child is involved in all family decision-making processes on matters concerning him or her, parents are aware that any decision arrived at must be in the best interest of the child.
  • By 2020, the African Children’s Committee –
  • should have considered the views of children and young people in the monitoring and accountability of implementation of the Charter;
  • should have developed and implemented platforms for children to participate in the monitoring of this Agenda.