SESRIC participated in the Annual Meeting of Transformative Monitoring for Enhanced Equity (TransMonEE) organized around the topic “TransMonEE: 30 Years of Monitoring Child Rights and Inequities, Taking Stock and Moving Towards Comprehensive Child Rights Monitoring”. The meeting was held in Ankara, Republic of Türkiye on 1-2 November 2022 and co-hosted by UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) and Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). Dr. Cem TİNTİN, Senior Researcher at Economic and Social Research Department, and Mr. Abdulhamit ÖZTÜRK, Researcher at Statistics and Information Department represented SESRIC thereat.

The TransMonEE Meeting provided a platform for the representatives of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) as well as the line ministries from Europe and Central Asia to review the recently adopted “Guidance of the Conference of European Statisticians” for improving statistics on children including children with disabilities, children in alternative care and statistics on violence against children, and take stock of the application of minimum child protection indicators in the region, and specifically explore good practices related to the generation of statistics on children in alternative care.

The participants further discussed on a regional monitoring framework for child rights and the adjustments needed in the post-COVID period in data sources to capture the realization of child rights and challenges children face in today’s world.

TransMonEE is a three-decade-old regional partnership initiative among the NSOs of Europe and Central Asia region. It aims to strengthen the coverage, quality, disaggregation, accessibility, and use of data on children, across a breadth of areas relevant to children’s rights and wellbeing, aligned with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

For more information on the meeting, please visit: https://transmonee.org/events/transmonee-30-years-of-monitoring-child-rights-and-inequities/

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