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ACTION PLAN 2007-2011
MARÍA DE LOS DOLORES AGUILAR MARMOLEJO Director
General of the IIN
Cartagena de Indias, 26-27 July, 2007
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Introduction

• This Action Plan 2007-2011
• Recognizes the IIN expertise and historic legacy
  generated in its 80-year institutional
  performance.
• Takes into consideration the mandates approved
  by the IIN Directing Council, the XIX Pan
  American Child Congress, the OAS Resolutions, and
  the Strategic Plan 2005-2008 prepared and
  adopted by the IIN Directing Council.
• The Plan has the following characteristics
• It provides for the continuity of existing
  commitments.
• It prioritizes those commitments responding to
  the present reality and circumstances.
• It promotes a participatory and shared
  management through a coordinated dialogue
• It strengthens strategic alliances with various
  agencies, international and regional
  organizations, government agents, the academic
  sector, etc.
• It introduces the Systemic Intervention Approach.

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Guiding Principles

• A Right-based Approach in conformity with the
  Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• A Family and Community-oriented Approach based on
  the directives of the XIX Pan American Child
  Congress.
• A Governance-based Approach pursuant to the OAS
  Inter-American Democratic Charter.

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Vision
To become a specialized forum of excellence, a
coordinator within the Inter-American System of
the search for government consensus and
commitment, and a technical referent on child
issues at regional level, thus contributing to
the promotion and protection of childrens
rights and the improvement of their living
conditions through a family and community-based
approach.
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Mission
Contributing to governance strengthening in the
OAS Member States with the cooperation
of organized civil society, by means of
actions favouring public policy design and a
culture of respect for childrens rights, leading
to the integral development and welfare of
children and their families.
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Vision, Mission, Strategic Objectives
INTERVENTION LOGFRAME
To ensure the respect for and promotion of
Children's Rights, thus allowing for
strengthening the democratic governance of the
Member States of the Inter-American System.
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Intervention Areas
Communication and Information
Legal
Creative and professional management of IIN
global communication in its capacity as advocate
of the respect for childrens rights.
Guiding and advising the OAS Member States in
their processes of adapting national legislations
to child-related principles in international
regulatory frameworks, and to their effectiveness
and enforceability.
To guide, advice, train, and accompany the OAS
Member State for the adequate definition and
application of public policies and the
transformation of institutions related to
children's rights.

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Cross-sectional Guidelines

• Ongoing Training
• Technical Cooperation
• Strategic Alliances
• Information and
• Dissemination
• Research

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LEGAL AREA
Expected Results

• To promote both the adaptation of national
  legislations to the principles in the regulatory
  framework on children's rights, their
  effectiveness and enforceability, and their
  subsequent implementation.
• To create a cooperation network for the
  implementation, application, and enforcement of
  the international regulatory framework concerning
  child abduction and return.
• To strengthen juvenile criminal judicial systems
  as far as compliance with due process guarantees,
  inter-institutional coordination, and preventive
  policies are concerned.

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AREA FOR PROMOTION AND PROTECTION
Expected Results

• To promote the right to a name and a nationality
• To promote among children their right to
  participate and to be raised as citizens.
• To provide advice and training on the application
  of updated technical management instruments
  related to the promotion and protection of
  childrens rights.

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COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION AREA
Expected Results

• To contribute to the IIN institutional
  strengthening.
• To sensitize and train on information management
  from the perspective of childrens rights.
• To update and innovate in the information area in
  order to promote the respect for childrens
  rights.
• To promote a non-violence culture in the media,
  as well as in children.

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LEGAL AREA
Expected Products
Result

• Analysis of compared law and case law allowing
  for identifying best practices, regulatory gaps,
  effectiveness, and enforceability (Juridical
  Database, BADAJ).
• Observatory on commercial sexual exploitation and
  other forms of violence affecting children.
• Monitoring of best practices, conflicts, and
  trends in justice administration concerning
  childrens rights.
• Creation of a network of judges, public
  defenders, and prosecutors, and their training on
  the need for considering the best interest of the
  child and the Convention on the Rights of the
  Child.

To promote both the adaptation of national
legislations to the principles in the regulatory
framework on children's rights, their
effectiveness and enforceability, and their
subsequent implementation.
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LEGAL AREA
Expected Products
Result

• Establishment and strengthening of cooperation
  mechanisms for the international return of
  children abducted by one of their parents.
• Establishment and strengthening of information
  mechanisms to avoid and remedy the international
  abduction of children by one of their parents.

To create a cooperation network for the
implementation, application, and enforcement of
the international regulatory framework on child
abduction and return.
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LEGAL AREA
Expected Products
Result

• Promotion of a set of restorative justice
  resources especially designed to deal with
  adolescents against whom there is evidence of law
  infringement.
• Technical assistance for the development of
  alternative or open care programs with the
  participation of civil society.
• Strengthening of statistical systems allowing for
  the development of prevention policies.
• Production of statistics and generation of
  commitments in the media allowing for visualizing
  the multiple dimension of offences attributed to
  youth.

To strengthen juvenile criminal justice systems
as far as due process guarantees and
inter-institutional are concerned.
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AREA FOR PROMOTION AND PROTECTION
Expected Products
Result

• Diagnose of child situation concerning the right
  to participate, especially in the educational
  area.
• Systematization and participatory analysis of
  related information, based on country actual
  situation.
• Advice and training, and provision of adequate
  instruments for intervention on childrens right
  to participate.
• Identification of organized child groups and
  their participation in the promotion and
  monitoring of their rights through virtual and
  interactive means.

To promote the right of children to
participate and be raised as citizens.
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AREA FOR PROMOTION AND PROTECTION
Expected Products
Result

• Advice to Governing Entities on the design of
  strategic policies related to the National System
  for Child Integral Care (SNAINA).
• To strengthen the states through an adequate
  structure of social networks, and integral care
  methodologies and protocols.
• Advice to the states on the periodic monitoring
  of the enforcement of the Convention.
• Enhancement of the access to and exchange of
  information and mutual cooperation among states
  through virtual and interactive means.

To provide advice and training on the
application of updated technical management
instruments within the framework of the promotion
and protection of childrens rights.
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COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION AREA
Expected Products
Result

• A forum for the interactive exchange of expertise
  with the Delegates to the IIN Directing Council.
• Guidance on strategic issues for decision-making
  at the highest level.
• Dissemination of publications and experience on
  issues of interest

To contribute to the IIN institutional
strengthening.
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COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION AREA
Expected Products
Result

• Training and adequate instruments on childrens
  rights.
• Training and adequate and specialized instruments
  for communication experts related to the
  treatment of non-violence addressed to children.
• Promotion of courses on information and
  childrens rights at University Institutes
  specialized on Communication.

Sensitizing and training on information
management from the perspective of childrens
rights.
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COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION AREA
Expected Products
Result

• Innovation and extension of the IIN Website.
• Extension and promotion of the Database of
  documents, organizations, and projects (OPD).
• Extension and dissemination of the Legal Database
  (BADAJ).
• Innovation and dissemination of the
  Inter-American Information and Cooperation
  Network on International Child Abduction
  (specialized Web page).
• Updating of the IT support for the Monitoring
  System of Right Enforcement.
• Development, promotion, and dissemination of
  audiovisual material on childrens rights.

Updating and innovating in the information
area in order to promote the respect for
childrens rights.
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COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION AREA
Expected Products
Result

• Research on existing regulatory frameworks
  related to the media and to the protection of
  Childrens Rights.
• Educational modules for the promotion of a
  critical and constructive awareness vis-à-vis the
  media.
• To promote the creation of space for childrens
  participation in such communication means as the
  Internet.
• To create an experimental tool for measuring
  violence addressed in TV shows addressed to
  children.

To promote, in both the media and the
children, a culture of non-violence.
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Participatory Management

• Creation of specific Committees working in an
  interconnected manner with intervention areas and
  cross-sectional action guidelines.
• Promotion of the ongoing participation of the
  Directing Council in the follow-up of existing
  commitments.
• Designation of a technical referent per country.

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Operational Outline
Family and Community-based Approach
Inter-American Democratic Charter
Action Plan 2007 - 2011
Cross-sectional Action Guidelines
Technical Cooperation
Training and Research
Information Dissemination
Intervention Levels
Strategic Alliances
Regional
International
Local
Legal
Promotion and Protection of Rights
Communication and Information
Resource Management
Intervention Areas
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Special Recognition

• to the Delegates to the Directing Council of the
  IIN, who daily assume in their respective
  countries the commitment to create, design, and
  manage child-related public policies.
• They play an irreplaceable leading role in the
  activities of the IIN.