This Manual for Early Childhood Rights Indicators enhances our understanding of the rights of young children with respect to their special needs and vulnerabilites. It presents a set of 15 child-rights indicators for early childhood that help to assess whether young children’s rights are being upheld. It promotes better data collection, more careful analysis of data and consequently more complete reporting and monitoring of young children’s rights. The Manual gives comprehensive advice on which questions to ask, which ways and where to find the information and which duty bearers to involve. Data disaggregation will help to better understand the problems of care, development and education in young childhood, identify target groups of young children with particular needs and develop policies and programs that effectively contribute to overcome poverty, poor health, illteracy and dependency on social welfare. Most importantly, it will assist State parties to fulfill their obligation towards the youngest members and rights holders of their societies.
