ABSTRACT This article focuses on ex ante Child Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) as a sub-set of Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA). CRIA is recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child to predict the likely impact of proposals for legislation or policy on children’s rights guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. While ex post evaluation of outcomes is also recommended, the Committee emphasises the importance of prospective assessment to help ensure that legislation, policy and delivery of government programmes respect children’s rights. This article will demonstrate why CRIA is suitable to predict the likely impact of proposals for economic policy on the human rights of children. It discusses core elements of CRIA procedure and examines CRIA in practice, drawing on experience in seven states where the assessment has been introduced at some level of government: Belgium, Bosnia–Herzegovina, Canada, Ireland, Sweden, New Zealand and the UK. This will provide insights into methodological approaches as well as challenges likely to affect CRIA of economic programmes. The core elements of CRIA and HRIA procedure are comparable, and so the article contributes to better understanding HRIA of economic policy generally.

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经济政策的事前儿童权利影响评估

摘要 本文侧重于作为人权影响评估 (HRIA) 子集的事前儿童权利影响评估 (CRIA)。儿童权利委员会建议使用 CRIA 来预测有关《联合国儿童权利公约》所保障的儿童权利的立法或政策提案可能产生的影响。虽然也建议对结果进行事后评估，但委员会强调前瞻性评估的重要性，以帮助确保立法、政策和政府方案的实施尊重儿童权利。本文将说明为什么 CRIA 适合预测经济政策提案对儿童人权的可能影响。它讨论了 CRIA 程序的核心要素，并在实践中检查了 CRIA，借鉴了在某些级别的政府中引入评估的七个国家的经验：比利时、波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那、加拿大、爱尔兰、瑞典、新西兰和英国。这将提供对方法论方法以及可能影响经济计划 CRIA 的挑战的见解。CRIA 和 HRIA 程序的核心要素具有可比性，因此本文有助于更好地理解经济政策的 HRIA。