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(d)
Strengthen public finance management systems and ensure
accountability for resources, including through both internal and external audit
processes. Financial oversight and accountability mechanisms should include
compliance and enforcement mechanisms, remedies, sanction and redress;
(e)
Ensure budget transparency by making key budget documents public
during the annual budget cycle in a timely manner. To facilitate understanding of the
budget by the public, including children, the Government should produce a childfriendly citizen’s budget;
(f)
Ensure a clear and transparent demarcation of budget lines for spending
on children. Information should be sufficiently disaggregated to enable children and
other stakeholders to identify, extract and track budget line items intended to benefit
children;
(g)
Gather comprehensive disaggregated data on children from civil
registration and vital statistics and other relevant sources that inform planning and
improve budget and public accounting systems, by making information on vulnerable
groups visible, accessible, identifiable and extractable in all budget plans and
expenditures;
(h)
Ensure meaningful and inclusive participation of all children – in
particular those belonging to vulnerable and marginalized groups – according to their
evolving capacities, throughout the entire budget cycle, in an open, transparent,
collaborative and easily accessible way;
(i)
Ensure that the public, including children, can engage in fiscal processes,
by guaranteeing the right to participation throughout the budget process.
Appropriate forums should be used for public engagement. States should ensure
child-friendly, age-appropriate and safe processes and mechanisms where children
can articulate their views and recommendations;
(j)
Establish an adequate enabling environment by improving legal
protection of children’s participation and their rights to expression, association and
peaceful assembly at all levels;
(k) Implement ex-ante and ex-post child rights impact assessments and
evaluations of economic policies, budgets and fiscal processes to monitor the impact of
decisions on children’s rights. Such evaluation must be continuous and
comprehensive, and contribute meaningfully to fiscal planning and budget
formulation across budget cycles;
(l)
Recognize that global economic structures have an impact on a State’s
fiscal space, and that the international community must therefore ensure that global
governance is transparent and accountable. Global partnerships and cooperation are
also needed to tackle illicit financial flows and tax avoidance;
(m) Recognize that the realization of children’s rights is a shared
responsibility of developed and developing countries. In this light, States must honour
their commitment to allocate 0.7 per cent of their gross national income to aid, and to
ensure that it is transparently delivered.
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