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assistance on behalf of all children and ensuring that inclusive social protection measures are
available, adequate and accessible;
7.
Also urges States to invest in child rights-compliant inclusive social protection,
including with a view to fulfilling the needs and human rights of all family members, which
may have high economic and social returns and is a strategic choice that benefits all children,
enabling them to realize their human rights and potential and to live in dignity, and a key
component of strong economies and healthy societies;
8.
Further urges States to build and adapt inclusive social protection systems to
meet the specific needs and capacities of children in forced displacement and migrant and
refugee children, including by providing safety nets and child-friendly, accessible spaces that
recognize the importance of play and recreational facilities, which can help to protect children
and provide physical and psychological support for children affected by crises;
9.
Calls upon States to allocate sufficient resources to ensure effective inclusive
social protection for children and the realization of their rights, including to social security;
10.
Encourages States to progressively move towards universal inclusive social
protection coverage, including by implementing universal child benefits without
discrimination of any kind and integrating them with complementary services;
11.
Urges States to ensure that inclusive social protection schemes offer adequate,
adapted support for children with disabilities, including remuneration for individuals who
provide their care, in a dignified manner reflecting special needs for assistance and support
in order to promote the full and effective participation of children with disabilities in society
on an equal basis with other children and to ensure the enjoyment of their rights in accordance
with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
12.
Also urges States to take the measures necessary to ensure the full enjoyment
by all children of all their human rights and ensure access to inclusive social protection
services through effective regulation and enforcement mechanisms, including by:
(a)
Enacting and implementing the necessary legal and policy frameworks
anchored in human rights, particularly child rights obligations, to establish a comprehensive
child rights-based approach to inclusive social protection as part of a life cycle and integrated
systems approach, ensuring that no child is left behind, that inclusive social protection
services include universal and comprehensive child and family benefits and financial and
material support for parents or caregivers, such as parental leave and affordable, quality
childcare, and that inclusive social protection services are accompanied by human rightsbased care and support, as well as universal access to basic services, including health
services, equal access to free, quality inclusive education, a safe digital environment, water
and sanitation, affordable nutritious food and adequate housing;
(b)
Paying particular attention to mitigating the disproportionate impact on
children in marginalized and vulnerable situations and facing multiple and intersecting forms
of discrimination by developing a risk-informed approach addressing the root causes and risk
factors of gender inequality to ensure that all children have access to age-, disability- and
gender-responsive and inclusive social protection;
(c)
Ensuring meaningful consultation with children in inclusive social protection
decisions concerning them and that information on social protection is child-friendly and
accessible to all children in marginalized and vulnerable situations;
(d)
Conducting budget analyses to align budgets with children’s rights obligations
and introducing the revenue streams necessary to ensure child rights-compliant financing of
integrated, multi-stakeholder-inclusive social protection systems, and allocating sufficient
and adequate human and financial resources to effectively implement them;
(e)
Collecting timely, quality, transparent and disaggregated data on children,
covering all grounds of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law and
establishing comprehensive and transparent monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to
analyse inclusive social protection systems, identify gaps and inform evidence-based
legislative processes and policymaking to ensure that social protection systems are truly
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