Narrative Description of the Project:

The global objective of the assignment is to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth Situation Analysis of Children in Armenia including major issues and factors affecting the situation of children and the realization of their rights.

Specific objectives:

• Present comprehensive gender and geographic disaggregated data and trends on the status of indicators for children and measuring progress against agreed international standards, namely Millennium Development Goals, World Fit For Children (WFFC) Goals and Education for All (EFA) Goals
• Identify and describe patterns of inequality, marginalization, vulnerability and exclusion
• Formulate recommendations for the realization of children’s rights in the context of existing capacities policy and budgeting frameworks, legislation, capacity building efforts, service delivery systems and other strategies and interventions at different levels of society
• Highlight knowledge and information gaps among children for further data collection, research and analysis
• Provide a comparative analysis of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and legislation in Armenia, extensively drawing on the CRC implementation guidelines to identify gaps for advocacy;
• Identify, prioritise and provide recommendations for a set of key actions related to realization of children’s rights for further support by the European Commission

Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

The Situation Analysis will be conducted through coordination of the EC Delegation and UNICEF in Armenia and with full participation of the Government and relevant stakeholders in all stages of the process: planning, data collection, data analysis, reporting and dissemination. An Advisory Board will be established in order to ensure regular feedback to stakeholders at all stages of analysis development.

Various other stakeholders will be involved in the process of analysis elaboration such as technical experts at Ministry and Marz level, civil society organizations/NGOs, academia, private sector, donors, UN agencies, women’s groups, and young people in various forms of participation including interviews and meetings, workshops for causality analysis using the human rights based approach, and participation in focus group discussions.

The Situation Analysis should draw on all available child-related data, information and research and take stock of existing analytical processes and products, including electronic data sets in DevInfo.

The analysis will be underpinned by a human rights-based approach taking into account:

• Causality analysis within a Conceptual Framework
• Role-pattern analysis, examining the duty bearers and rights holders
• Capacity gap analysis, examining the capacity of all those individuals and institutions responsible for Respecting, protecting and fulfilling children’s rights

The assessment of the realization of children’s rights will consider specific denials and violations of children’s rights, and situations that contravene human rights principles such as universality and non-discrimination. It will identify existing problem, place / location of occurrence, affected groups / individuals, frequency and volume of problems and existing or missing mechanisms to address those problems.