Results of the Child Rights Monitoring meeting organized by UNICEF in Luxembourg

Representatives of the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan Rza Allahverdiyev Head of Department of Population and Gender Statistics and Arzu Orujova Leading Adviser of the Department of Service Statistics participated in the 10th Meeting of European and Central Asian Statisticians on Transformative Monitoring for Enhanced Equity for Children (TransMonEE) (Child Rights Monitoring meeting) organized by UNICEF on 10-11 November, 2014 in Luxembourg.
Experts of Statistical bodies of CIS member countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia) as well as Albania, Georgia, Turkey, Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Republic of Czech, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia, CIS Statistical Committee, the European Disability Forum, Open Society Foundation, Washington Group and Eurostat was invited to the meeting. Totally 47 persons participated in the meeting.
The main purpose of the meeting was strengthening activities of experts of National Statistical Services, improving the quality of national indicators of social welfare of children. Firstly Lori Bell, Regional Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation, UNICEF CEE/CIS opened the meeting and talked about introduction to TransMonEE (TM), the TM Meeting Agenda and Presentations of the participants.
During the meeting following topics were discussed: Overview of TM data and trends over time; UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Paradigm Shift in Understanding and Defining Disability; European Disability statistics: progress and challenges; Selecting a method for collecting child disability data; UNICEF/WG Module on Child Functioning and Disability and the UNICEF/WG Module on School Environment and Participation Country Experiences with disability measurement tools; Discussion on good practices and next steps; Enhancing the availability, quality and comparability of TransMonEE data; 2014 Country Analytical Reports on Alternative Care for Children; TransMonEE process as a means to bridge inter-agency data discrepancy; discussion on improvement of coverage, quality and disaggregated data; Strengthening TransMonEE – Recent Improvements; dssemination and use of children-related data at the regional and country levels and others.