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For more information on the programme contact: Marian Hanrahan National Coordinator of MIM Programme Postbus 19152 3501 DD Utrecht Tel: (31-30) 306393; Fax: (31-30) 319641 e-mail M.Hanrahan@nizw.nl Copyright © The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development Early Childhood Counts: Programming Resources for Early Childhood Care and Development. CD-ROM. The Consultative Group on ECCD. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1999. 11
The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: MOVING PROMISES TO ACTION Coordinator's Notebook No. 17, 1995 Robert G. Myers THE CONVENTION AND MECHANISMS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH ITS PROVISIONS…1 EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONVENTION, IN NATIONAL PLANS OF ACTION AND IN MONITORING THE CONVENTION…3 SOME QUESTIONS FOR READERS TO ASK…7 A CHALLENGE…7 The Convention and Mechanisms for Compliance with its Provisions The approval of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the UN Assembly (November 1989) and the subsequent Summit for Children (September 1990) have, without doubt, had an important effect on the way in which the approximately 170 governments that are signatories to the Convention include attention to children within their social planning and programming. This is so in part because national approval of the Convention creates a moral commitment by a country, within an international framework, to seek improvements in the survival, development, protection, and social participation of children. It would be naive, however, to think that moral commitment related to an international document will, alone, serve as a strong incentive for action; governments are too often associated with paper promises and empty rhetoric. With this in mind, one of the most immediate and important features of the Convention and the Summit has been the development of a set of related mechanisms that help to move promises to action, trying to assure that the provisions of the Convention are acted upon. 1
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