What is Childwatch International?
 The
Childwatch International Research Network is a
global, non-profit, nongovernmental network of institutions that
collaborate in
child research for the purpose of promoting child rights and improving
children’s well-being around the world. It was founded in 1993 as
a response
from the research community to the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
an instrument for changing the focus of research and for ensuring that
the perspectives of children are heard. The
Convention is the basis for the Network’s common
agenda.
Childwatch
links local, regional and national research
efforts to an international research based knowledge, practice and
policy on
children’s issues. It seeks a more effective and strategic
approach to child
research globally. Childwatch has unique potential to harness the
collective
capacity of international child researchers to identify and investigate
major
questions of global significance in the lives of children.
The Network
focuses on critical issues in the lives of
children and youth, and their families. It seeks to encourage
multi-disciplinary research, policy development and training that
promote the
well being, rights, civic and social participation and the full
development of
children. Childwatch values research about effective and appropriate
practices
to achieve these goals and research that describes the current
condition of
children and youth.
The
core of Childwatch International is the Key
Institutions,
which conduct research on children's rights from various angles. The
directing body of the network is the Board,
which shall give advice on the network's overall policy and long term
strategies for its implementation. The Secretariat
is an executive, supportive body, headed by the Director of Childwatch
International and based at the University of Oslo, Norway. The Business Committee
supervises the administrative and financial matters of Childwatch
International, and thus provides important support to the Secretariat.
The
network is guided by the principles in the Aims and Ethos and Strategic plan,
and in the documents Governance and Funding
and their corresponding by-laws.
The
Childwatch
International Research Network receives its core funding from The
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). NORAD's child
policy is guided by Norway's Development Strategy for Children and
Young People in the South, which can be downloaded as a pdf file here>>.
The funding is channeled through the Norwegian
Research Council.
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