Throughout 2022, the CCIG has contributed to the follow-up project “Children’s and women’s rights in Bolivia: Follow up on the UN bodies recommendations”, initiated in December 2021 together with the Marist International Solidarity Foundation (FMSI). Also supported by Edmund Rice International (ERI), this project aims to support local actors in their efforts towards better monitoring and implementation of children’s and women’s rights in Bolivia, with regard to the right to participation of children and youth, child labor and violence against women and girls.

In the framework of this project, the CCIG provided guidance to Bolivian human rights defenders for building a Monitoring Plan for UPR and CRC recommendations. This guidance, which included activities such as online trainings and ad hoc counseling, provided local civil society with a solid framework of indicators to enhance visibility of the progress achieved and the persistent gaps in the implementation of the priority human rights issues in Bolivia. This follow-up project served as a pilot project to test CCIG remote technical support for local partners in building up a detailed monitoring plan based on the priority issues they had identified. It also allowed the CCIG and local partners to put into practice the methodology required to set up human rights indicators.

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