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ALBANIAN
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS NETWORK- ACRN
BACKGROUND
After 1990, the number of NGO's in Albania has been
raising every year. The same phenomenon has happened with child
related NGO's. Meanwhile many of these NGO's have established alliances,
forums, or coordination centres, however the same did not happen
the NGO's working for children.
As a consequence the grants given to the projects
or programmes of child related NGO's have been very limited, compared
to the grants given to other groups such as: women, human rights,
environment or health.
Knowing these facts and many other reasons The Children's
Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA in September 1999 thought
that was the time to establish a network of NGO's working for children.
In a meeting hosted by CRCA and with the participation of a wide
group of child focused NGO's, donors and governmental representatives,
was decided the establishment of:
ALBANIAN
CHILDREN'S
RIGHTS NETWORK
MAIN
GOALS
- The protection and development of children's rights
in Albania;
- Strengthening and development of NGO's that work in the field
of children's rights and children's issues.
- The implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
of UN.
THE
OBJECTIVES
- Preparation and / or monitoring the Country Report
for the Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva.
- Increase child participation at local and national level.
- Exchange of information between all the NGO's represented at the
Network.
- Exchange of positive experiences between NGO's and the government.
- The dissemination of information of NGO's to the
Parliament, Government, international and Albanian NGO's, children,
researchers of children's rights and all the interested.
- Public awareness on children's rights in Albania.
- Protection of minority children;
- Increase the communication and involvement in the network of other
NGO's from districts.
- Increase the communication with the Parliament, Government, and
all the other governmental structures focused on children issues
and rights.
- Keep close contacts with media.
- Raise awareness of the donors for the support of Albanian NGO's.
- The awareness of donors for the projects and programmes of NGO's
and for the situation of children's rights in Albania.
- Training of NGO members on children's rights and NGO management.
ORGANISATION
ACRN is a non-formal network organised as following:
- General Council, comprised of all Network members
and meets once in six months.
- Board of Directors, comprised of 9 members elected by the General
Council every year.
BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
Board of Directors is elected once a year and is the
managing structure of ACRN. The Board meets once a month and is
comprised of 9 members:
- 5 members from the NGO's participating in the General
Council;
- 2 members from children's groups
- 1 member from donors of ACRN
- 1 member from governmental institutions
THE
RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD
- Keeps regular contacts with all the members ACRN
- Reviews, approves or refuses the requests for membership at ACRN
- Manages the Activities Fund
- Decides the principals, strategies and priorities of ACRN
- Decides the critera and the formula of membership
- Organises activities, seminars, conferences, training course etc.
on child related issues.
MEMBERSHIP
ACRN has two forms of membership:
a) Full member
b) Associate member
FULL
MEMBER CRITERIA
- The organisation is legal for at least 1 year.
- Works for children and/or children's rights.
- Has strategies and programmes related to children.
- The organisation has shown professionalism during its work with
children.
- The organisation runs programmes, projects and organises activities
for children.
- Pays an Annual Membership fee of 3000 Lek.
- Pays the Monthly membership fee of 1000 Lek.
ASSOCIATE
MEMBER CRITERIA
- The organisation is legal or is preparing the documents
for becoming legal a entity.
- Works for children and/or children's rights.
- Has strategies and programmes related to children.
- Pays an Annual Membership fee of 1500 Lek.
- Pays Monthly membership fee of 500 Lek.
ACTIVITIES
FUND
All the income received from the Annual membership
and Monthly membership fee will be used to establish Activities
Fund of the Network.
The Fund is managed by the Board of Directors of ACRN.
This Fund will be used for the organisation of seminars,
conferences, workshops, training and other activities of ACRN on
the issue of children and children rights.
The Fund could be used for increasing the research
on children rights and issues or for supporting the preparations
of the Country Report for the Committee on the Rights of the Child
in Geneva.
CONTACT
POINT OF ACRN
The Tenth Meeting of
the Network decided that CRCA would remain the contact point of
ACRN.
MEMBERS
OF THE NETWORK
1 - Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA
2 - Union of Albanian Roma "Amaro Drom"
3 - Help the Life Association
4 - Support for Widow Women and her Children
5 - Support for Adolescents
6 - Governmental Committee For Equal Opportunities
7 - Albanian Human Rights Centre
8 - European Children's Trust
9 - Besa Scout - Albania
10 - Albanian Section of International Board on Books for Young
People
11 - Albanian Civil Society Foundation - FSHSHC
12 - The Network for the Education of Adolescents from Minorities
and - People with Colour
13 - Albanian Orphans Association
14 - The Association of City and Rural Women's Rights -(Berat)
15 - Multidisciplinary Center for the Management of Child Maltreatment
16 - Women Association "Reality and Visions"
17 - Association for a Human Community
18 - Albanian Family Planning Association
19 - Information and Research Centre for Children's Rights in Albania
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