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Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) NGO Survey Findings During-Review Question 3a) Did you attend the Working Group Review meeting in Geneva? Response Summary: Generally, Geneva representatives of international NGOs attended the majority of reviews on behalf of their country offices, with representatives from their country offices attending where possible. As far as international NGOs are concerned, where country offices were not in attendance, the outcome of the review would be disseminated to the country office. National NGOs found it far more difficult to attend the reviews, and would often have to rely on a fellow member of the coalition to attend, that is if they were part of a coalition. Of all the organisations interviewed for the survey, only one NGO had followed the UPR on the webcasts operated through the OHCHR website. Question 3b) Did you make a statement during the Plenary Session (or did someone on your behalf)? Response summary: Some of the organisations reported that they made a statement in the Plenary Session which takes place approximately four months after the review. As detailed in Chapter 2 of this report, NGOs have a brief slot to make oral statements on the final outcome report of the State under review. The majority of organisations interviewed, however, said they did not make statements. On the whole, NGOs were sceptical about the impact of making a statement or were unaware the opportunity exists for NGOs. Ways to follow the Reviews – See Appendix 7 also for links � OHCHR operate a webcast of the UPR sessions. � International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) produce analytical reports on the State reviews, made available on their website after the event. � OHCHR also publish the final report and recommendations on their website. � Of course, you can access CRIN's specialised children's rights references reports after each review A comment expressed a couple of times was summed up below by an international NGO: “The problem with the statement option is that the window for NGOs is only 20 minutes, and that is for all NGOs. What we find is that the bigger NGOs receive the main slots. The second point is that the State under review does not respond to the statements and they do not go into the final recommendations” 43
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) NGO Survey Findings Post-review Question 4a) Do you plan to disseminate the outcomes / findings of the review? Response summary: The majority of organisations reported that they disseminated the findings of the review in one way or another. The extent to which this happened ranged from disseminating documents detailing outcomes and recommendations to country offices and coalition partners, to simpler documents to wider civil society, to addressing the media. Below are a couple of examples of how organisations have disseminated the outcomes of the reviews internally and externally. Dissemination internally: International offices to their country offices: “We send a short summary to our country offices and partners detailing children's rights recommendations that were accepted, so that advocacy offices can build this into their own strategy” “We create a two page document summarising the review and the outcomes from it, and send to our country offices and national associations” “We put an outcome document, together with all the final recommendations on our website for members to see” Dissemination externally: “We would love to disseminate information to, and engage with, the media, but do not have the capacity or contacts within the media” “Together with the child protection coalition, we are going to follow up on the recommendations related to child protection, and disseminate the outcomes and encourage other local coalitions to follow up on areas they are interested in” A guide to making a Statement – See Appendix 7 also for links • NGOs can register to make an oral statement • View past oral statements made during the Plenary Sessions on UPR-Info.org's website 44
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