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EACRN Annual Partners Reflection and Learning Event 2024

Each year, EACRN organizes a 2 to 3-day capacity-building workshop and member review meeting for its ten national child rights network members. This event is vital for our monitoring and evaluation process, helping us track advancements in child rights advocacy and pinpoint areas of education that require more attention in the Eastern Africa Region. Furthermore, the meeting provides a valuable benchmarking opportunity, allowing members to share and implement best practices on education in their countries.
This year, we aim to conduct a partner review meeting with our members to discuss efforts made in their respective nations to tackle challenges children face in accessing free, fair, and quality education. During the two-day workshop, members will present their country reports and recommendations designed to enhance children's rights in the region. We intend to develop an outcome statement and a follow-up report for presentation at the 3rd EAC CSO summit in 2025 and the next sessions of the CSO Forum and the ACERWC.
The dates for the meeting are from the 25th to 13th of November 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda

KIGALI, RWANDA

The Annual Partners Reflection and Learning event will take place in the city of Kigali, Rwanda.

DATES

The EACRN Annual Partners Reflection and Learning Event will take place from 25th to 27th November, 2024. Click the calendar icon to add a reminder of the event.

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VENUE

The Venue for the event will be shared in due time

Learn more about the CSO Forum

ABOUT THE CSO FORUM

The African Civil Society Forum (CSO Forum) is a group of Civil Society Organizations from the five African regions, namely, East, Southern, North, West and Central, through their regional child networks. The Forum exists to speak with one voice in pursuit of the common interest of the rights and welfare of African children as articulated in the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

The Forum meets at least twice a year, before the sessions of the ACERWC, to take stock of progress, challenges, and priorities of children in Africa and prepare submissions for the ACERWC sessions. The CSO Forum has a standing slot at the ACERWC Sessions, where it presents statements covering key issues agreed on during the CSO Forum Sessions, which precede the ACERWC Sessions. 

The CSO Forum sessions bring together CSOs and Pan African Human Rights Institutions working on the rights and welfare of children across Africa, key child rights experts, development partners, academics and researchers, to take stock and deliberate on various child rights thematic areas thus coming up with recommendations for strategic interventions by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC).

The 24th Ordinary session of the CSO Forum is scheduled to take place from 13th – 14th April 2024, before the ACERWC sessions, scheduled for 15th – 25th April 2024, in Maseru, Lesotho. There is also a planned children’s side event preceding the CSO Forum, which will be held virtually on April 6, 2024. The theme of the forum sessions will focus on children’s right to education. This is in line with the African Union Summit theme for 2024, which is “Educate an African Fit for the 21st Century: Building Resilient Education Systems for Increased Access to Inclusive, Lifelong, Quality, and Relevant Learning in Africa.”

MASERU, LESOTHO

The 25th session of the CSO Forum will take place in Maseru, Kingdom of Lesotho. Click the Icon above to learn fun facts about Lesotho

DATES

The 25th session of the CSO Forum will take place from September 29th to October 1st, 2024. Click the calendar Icon to add a reminder of the event.

VENUE

The Venue for the 25th CSO Forum will be at Avani Maseru

Registration

All participants are required to pay a subsidized registration fee of $100.00 (one hundred and Dollars). The said amount contributes towards expenses relating to the conference package (conference room, tea and coffee, lunch, water, interpretation equipment and interpreters’ fees, projector, documentation, stationery and other administrative logistics/support) provided during the Forum only. Furthermore, note that the said amount must be paid by ALL participants in cash at the registration desk

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25 TH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE CSO FORUM

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About the CSO Children's Forum

To realize the principle of child participation as envisioned in both the Charter and the CRC, the CSO Forum always holds a children’s
session preceding the main sessions. Children from the various regions come together for a dialogue and consultation on the given theme. The outcome statement of the session is then presented by a child representative at the CSO Forum and ACERWC Sessions. Both the ACRWC and UNCRC provide that every child has the right to a clean and healthy environment. Climate change has a direct impact on human rights and thus on the rights of the children.

WHERE?

The session for the children's Forum will take place virtually. The application that we are going to use for the event will be zoom. Click the icon above to download zoom for your desktop or smart phone

Registration Information

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcof-6rrjgjGNJo85gSB73GmVvhYT_P47Pp

Live Stream

The children's session will be available online on our Facebook page. Click the icon above to visit and follow our Facebook page. Thank you!

DAC 2024 Concept Note

You can now read and download the 2024 Day of the African Child concept note by clicking the icon above. The DAC continental celebration will take place in Uganda on June 16, 2024.

DAC Social Media Campaign

The Eastern Africa Child Rights Network will be conducting a social media campaign leading up to the continental celebrations. Follow the campaign by clicking the icon above.