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The International Institute for Child Rights and Development

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International Child Protection and Rights Consortium (ICPRC)

Overview
Location: 
Jordan, Brazil, and Canada

ICPRC was created in 2006 to bring together social scientists, governments, UN agencies, and NGOs working to bring about broad based systems change in support of child protection.

The purpose of the ICPRC is to strengthen the evidence base in better understanding the impact of children’s rights and assisting in implementing child protection policy and programming. This is achieved through collaborative research, development of capacity building and monitoring tools, and in studying innovation in programming and policy. ICPRC seeks to build from the best of implementation efforts in child rights and protection, while also recognizing that new approaches are needed to better ground the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in a child’s own lived experience and in the context of their peers, family, community and culture.

Research Concepts: 

ICPRC is particularly interested in better linking research, policy and practice. Four key conceptual themes underpin ICPRC’s work across these dimensions. These are:
 

  1. Children’s own experience of childhood in relation to risk, protection, and agency;
  2. Growing social science understanding of long term threats to child and adolescent development, and of the various means through which societies can protect their young against such threats;
  3. An ecological perspective on childhood that includes the role of culture and other social systems in child vulnerability and protection;
  4. The presence and significance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in both policy and practice, especially its ability to successfully contextualize its provisions.
Funders: 
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Funders: 
Save the Children USA in Jordan
Funders: 
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
Funders: 
UNICEF Brazil
Funders: 
UC Davis, Human Development
Funders: 
Relief International Jordan
Funders: 
UNICEF Jordan

 

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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings...their importance, their dignity...and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the
world.

Eleanor Roosevelt,
USA