Module Five: Children’s rights: planning, monitoring and evaluation

  • Study Session One: Monitoring and evaluation in your practice introduces the concept of monitoring and evaluation to help analyse what is happening to children in local communities. It is a means of helping the health worker measure actions taken to improve children’s right to health and to see if they are making a difference. Monitoring and evaluation are tools that can help workers gain a more detailed picture, to identify patterns, to understand which challenges are common and to understand what kinds of actions are effective in response to these challenges.
  • Study Session Two: Action Planning and Implementation looks in more detail at two parts of the monitoring and evaluation process: making and implementing plans. It demonstrates how these processes can be used to help to advance children’s rights. It defines and explores the relationship between objectives, plans and measures of success. In addition, the session highlights the importance of involving children and others in developing plans, to ensure that they are relevant to children’s needs, more likely to be implemented, and more likely to deliver the results that health workers want.

Module Four: Children’s rights in the wider environment: role of the health worker