1.1.7 Civic Space

We defend and expand civic space to ensure civil society organizations and child-led groups can operate freely and contribute meaningfully to governance. This includes legal advocacy, capacity support, and coalition-building to protect fundamental freedoms. This is a space/platform, physical or digital, where people (not governments or businesses) come together to exercise their human rights and core freedoms. Civic work helps shape our...

1.1.6 Child Rights Treaty Reporting

We support the state and civil society in fulfilling international obligations related to child rights, including reporting to treaty bodies like the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. We also facilitate children's participation in reporting processes NGO CCR on behalf of all CSOs that are involved in Child Affairs in Malawi reports to regional and International bodies on the status of the promotion and protection on the rights of...

1.1.0 Capacity Building and Systems Strengthening

Supporting government and civil society actors to enhance their skills, knowledge, and infrastructure to deliver quality child-focused services. This includes training, institutional support, and policy development to ensure child rights are effectively implemented and monitored. NGO CCR improves the capacity of CSO's working on child rights programming in Malawi in the areas of Child rights governance, advocacy, participatory Child rights...

CSOs UPR civic space reporting documentation

During the CSOs UPR civic space reporting documentation, the NGO Coalition on Child Rights (NGO CCR) played a pivotal role in facilitating the documentation of the Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Civic Space Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report. This initiative was carried out in close collaboration with the Malawi Human Rights Resource Centre (MHRRC) and aimed at consolidating key civic space concerns, experiences, and recommendations from...

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