A/HRC/27/31
(d)
Provide access to essential medicines for addressing child mortality and
morbidity included in the WHO list of essential medicines for children;29
(e)
Adopt evidence-based interventions to support good parenting, including
parenting skills education, support group and family counselling, especially for families
experiencing children’s health and other social challenges;30
(f)
Ensure functional systems for the prevention, identification and reporting of
abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation of children while in the
care of parents or other caretakers;31
(g)
Ensure the participation of affected populations and other stakeholders in
implementing efforts to address child mortality and morbidity. This might include, for
example, consulting parents and caregivers on their priorities for addressing child mortality
and morbidity, or involving community members in health facility management
committees;
(h)
Ensure, including through the analysis of disaggregated data, that the
implementation of policies, programmes and services does not discriminate against any
segment of the population and that, where necessary, additional efforts are made to reach
populations of children who are marginalized or discriminated against;
(i)
Reduce reliance on out-of-pocket payments for health services by providing
social protection or sharing financial risks across the population, which promotes access to
services by the most marginalized populations.
F.
Monitoring and evaluation
60.
Monitoring and evaluation of data relating to child mortality and morbidity,
collected regularly and rigorously, are required to track fulfilment of relevant human rights
as well as to inform policies, programmes and services. Well-functioning health
information and surveillance systems should ensure that data are reliable, transparent and
consistent, while protecting the right to privacy of children and their families. Data should
be disaggregated to reveal which groups of children are being left behind and should be
regularly used to track progress and direct action.
61.
National accountability mechanisms should monitor, review and recommend
remedial action based on their findings. Monitoring means providing data on the health
status of children, the quality of children’s health services, and how much is spent, where,
on what and on whom. This should include both routine monitoring and periodic, in-depth
evaluations. Reviewing means analysing the data and consulting children, families, other
caregivers and civil society to determine whether children’s health has improved and
whether governments and other actors have fulfilled their commitments. Acting means
using evidence emerging from those processes to repeat and expand what is working and to
remedy and reform what is not.32
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The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, A Global Review of the Key Interventions
Related to Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, (Geneva,2011).
WHO model list of essential medicines for children, available from
www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines/en/.
CRC/C/GC/15, para. 67.
Convention on the Rights of the Child, art.19; CRC/C/GC/13, paras. 47-49.
CRC/C/GC/15, para. 118.
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