UNICEF earmarked contribution "Enhancing the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism of Grave Violations against Children" 2025-2028

The prolonged duration of conflicts often results in children being continuously exposed to violence from early childhood into adulthood. The impacts are wide-ranging and increasingly complex, posing significant challenges to child protection. These include heightened risks of gender-based violence, repeated displacement, separation from family members, disruption of education and essential health services, child labor, and severe psychological distress. The Security Council has mandated the United Nations to implement its Children and Armed Conflict Agenda (CAAC) established by fourteen Security Council Resolutions including by establishing a monitoring and reporting mechanism (MRM) on grave violations against children in situations of armed conflict. This mechanism is intended to increase compliance by parties to conflict with their obligations under international law to protect children in conflict-affected situations. The MRM also monitors related issues of concern, such as deprivation of children’s liberty for their alleged or actual association with parties to conflict or on national security-related charges in the context of armed conflict, and the military use and occupation of schools and hospitals. The analysis of patterns and trends on grave violations against children is used to inform the engagement with parties to conflict, programmatic response for conflict affected children as well as to increase accountability of parties to conflict for grave violations against children.

Impact: Grave violations against children in situations of armed conflict are prevented in line with the UNSCR 1612 monitoring and reporting mechanism. Outcome: Countries experiencing conflict are better able to document, analyze and use data about grave child-rights violations/other serious rights violations for prevention and response