The Eastern Africa Child Rights Network

📰 Our 2025 Mid-Year Newsletter is out! Get the latest updates on our work to advance children’s rights across Africa🌍, key highlights from our Annual General Meeting, and more. 📥 Read it here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

Policies are powerful. But they’re only meaningful when they reflect the real lives of the children they’re meant to protect. Yesterday, Mtoto News joined the National Council for Children Services (NCCS) and fellow stakeholders for a two-day workshop at Kyaka Hotel, Machakos…

Today in Machakos, Kenya🇰🇪, we joined child rights actors for a workshop by @NCCS_Ke to consolidate Kenya’s 4th Periodic Report on the ACRWC. 💬 In line with @acerwc guidelines, children’s voices from across the country were included. We look forward to continuing our support.

Our ED, @ben_omillo joined a 2-day Child Rights Symposium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 hosted by ACPF & ACERWC, focused on enhancing child rights structures within RECs for stronger, coordinated action across Africa 🌍. A key step toward realizing an Africa fit for children 👧🏽👦🏾

Today, we honor the strength, resilience, and dreams of every African child. On this #InternationalDayoftheAfricanChild, let’s renew our commitment to protect their rights, amplify their voices & invest in quality education, safety, and opportunity for all. Every child matters.

#DayOfTheAfricanChild, 16 June – honours the students who lost their lives during the 1976 #SowetoUprising and highlights the challenges facing children in Africa. 2025 theme: “Planning and budgeting for children's rights: progress since 2010" tinyurl.com/2bs7xh22 #DAC2025

#ACERWC Chairperson delivers a special message on #AfricaDay 2025: "The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child underscores the urgency of addressing systemic inequalities that harm #children. In line with the African Union’s Theme of the Year—“Justice for…

Join FAWE for a webinar on Menstrual Hygiene Day, May 28! Theme: Engaging Boys & Men to Normalize MENstruation by 2030 Date: 28 May 2025 Online: Zoom Register here: tinyurl.com/6dfd6mhf Let’s break the stigma! #MenstrualHygieneDay #PeriodFriendlyWorld #EngageMen

The theme for the #DayofTheAfricanChild 2025 is: “Planning and Budgeting for Children’s Rights: Progress since 2010” This Year, we reflect on how far @_AfricanUnion Member States have come in placing #children at the heart of national plans and budgets and how far we…

Today, we join our SHE SOARS partners @Zamara_fdn and @NigeeKenya for a stakeholder session ahead of their study launch: *"Upholding the Right to Education for Pregnant Learners and Adolescent Mothers in Kenya."* With the Ministry of Education present, we’ll reflect on progress…

🚨 Reminder: Our first webinar in the series is happening this Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM EAT ⏰ 📝 Registration is still open! 🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Change of Dates Notice We would like to inform you that our first webinar has been rescheduled and will now take place on 22nd May 2025 at 12:00 PM (East Africa Time). Registration is still open! Click the link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Comrade Harris Namutebi the Team Leader at @ncduganda emphasised the need for sexuality education in schools Noting that Many learners lack the SRHR information and those affected are always stigmatized by the elders in schools. #EACYouthPolicy @ReproRightsAFR @SHESOARS_Ug

Today: National Consultations on the Review of the EAC Youth Policy in Kampala Uganda🇺🇬. EACRN as a regional network is ensuring that child rights and young peoples issues are well included in this review as there is intesectionality between Children and Youth in programming.

Mr Benedict Odiga Baba Africa,The Executive Director @EacrnRegional & @EAYNOfficial Board Member challenged the #EACYouth to invest in the implementation of the reviewed #EACYouthPolicy because it's a great document. He also noted that Children and Youth Issues are crosscutting.

Ugandan Consultations for the @jumuiya youth policy review! Thanks to partners @ReproRightsAFR @PlanMEESA @MenEngageUganda @ayt_org @eacgiz @meaca_ug @EacrnRegional @ElevateLivesUG @SHESOARS_Ug #NCD @ugyouthsenate @Vision4youthTZ @voyota255 for the support #EACYouthPolicy

Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible moms and mother figures! Your endless love, support, and sacrifices mean the world to us. Today, we celebrate you and the beautiful impact you make in our lives. Thank you for being our guiding light! With love – ❤️🌸💐

Amplifying the Voices of EAC Youth in Policy Formulation Policy Formulation and Implementation Processe This is your chance #EACYouth @PlanMEESA @ReproRightsAFR @eacgiz @jumuiya @SGNduva @morristayebwa @ayt_org @SHESOARS_Ug @ugyouthsenate @meaca_ug @NYC_YouthVoice @EacrnRegional

The team from @sauti116 under @Mglsd_UG joined #Camp25 today, engaging children on how Sauti works and encouraging them to use the platform whenever they face challenges that disrupt there safety. They emphasized that Sauti serves both children and adults. #ChildProtection