Civil Society Partners

Collaboration with civil society is a vital part of the implementation of the mandate on children and armed conflict. Local and international non-Governmental organizations provide information on grave violations, undertake research and advocacy, and deliver services to children, including through vocational training and reintegration programmes.

The Special Representative is committed to fostering closer relations on this issue with non-Governmental organizations (NGOs) and has established a structure for consultation with NGOs at United Nations Headquarters level on monitoring and reporting as well as all other aspects of the agenda.

This Advisory Group of NGOs includes:

• All Survivors Project
• Caritas
• Child Fund Alliance
• Child Soldiers International
• Child Rights Connect
• Defence for Children International
• Geneva Call
• Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
• The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
• Human Rights Watch
• International Centre for Transitional Justice
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• International Crisis Group
• International Displacement Monitoring Centre
• International Rescue Committee
• Oxfam International
• Plan International
• Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative
• Save the Children
• Security Council Report
• Terre des Hommes
• Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
• War Child
• WPDI - Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative
• World Childhood Foundation
• World Vision