STATE of FUNDING for CHILDREN in SADC REPORT RIATT-ESA by February 2019
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STATE OF FUNDING FOR CHILDREN IN SADC REPORT RIATT-ESA BY February 2019 Report authored by: Dr. Musavengana W.T. Chibwana Chengetai Kanyangu 0 1 The budget is the skeleton of the state, stripped of all misleading ideologies… Joseph Schumpeter, 1918 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 5 BACKGROUND ......................................................................................................................................... 7 RATIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS: INSTRUMENTS NOT RATIFIED BY MEMBER STATES .. 8 SCOPE OF THE REPORT ................................................................................................................................ 9 METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................................... 11 LOCATING THE STUDY IN RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY ..................................................................................... 11 DATA COLLECTION METHODS ..................................................................................................................... 11 DATA ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................................................... 12 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY ....................................................................................................................... 12 FUNDING TRAJECTORIES IN SADC ................................................................................................... 13 ODA TO SOUTHERN AFRICA ....................................................................................................................... 13 PHILANTHROPY-THE DEVELOPMENT COMPLEMENT ................................................................................... 14 ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS FROM THE REGION ........................................................................................... 15 FAR-RIGHT POLITICS IN THE EUROPE ......................................................................................................... 15 THE MIGRATION CRISIS ............................................................................................................................... 17 THE MEXICO CITY POLICY ......................................................................................................................... 17 SADC MEMBER STATES FUNDING COMMITMENTS TO CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ........................ 19 BUDGETING FOR THE SADC OVCY MINIMUM PACKAGE OF SERVICE ..................................................... 19 ACCESS TO EDUCATION ............................................................................................................................... 21 EDUCATION ................................................................................................................................................. 24 HEALTH ....................................................................................................................................................... 26 SOCIAL PROTECTION ................................................................................................................................... 27 COUNTRY EXAMPLES OF TRENDS IN ALLOCATIONS TO SOCIAL SECTORS AND SPECIFIC CHILD FOCUSED BUDGET LINES ............................................................................................................................................. 29 GENERATING REVENUE FOR THE REALIZATION OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ................................................... 34 DONOR SUPPORT AND PRIVATE SECTOR COMMITMENTS TOWARDS CHILD FOCUSED SECTORS IN THE SADC REGION ............................................................................................................................................. 36 BEYOND THE PROMISSORY NOTE, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES .................................................... 38 PROSPECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR FINANCING CHILD RIGHTS IN SADC ........................ 42 DOMESTIC RESOURCE MOBILISATION (DRM) ............................................................................................ 42 THE GRAND ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE DAM PROJECT CASE STUDY ......................................................... 43 THE RISE OF AFRICAN PHILANTHROPY AS A FINANCING MECHANISM ........................................................ 43 REMITTANCES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.......................................................................................................... 44 ODA STILL… ............................................................................................................................................... 45 AND THEN THERE WAS CHINA! .................................................................................................................... 46 PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ................................................................................................................ 46 THE NEXUS BETWEEN PRIVATE SECTOR AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ................................................................. 47 The double‐edged sword private sector .................................................................................................. 47 3 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ........................................................................... 48 KEY SITES FOR POTENTIAL CHILD RIGHTS FUNDING ................................................................ 49 CONCLUSIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 50 RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 51 DATA COLLECTION ...................................................................................................................................... 51 PUBLIC SPENDING IN CHILDREN .................................................................................................................. 52 CONSISTENCY WITH BUDGET BENCHMARKS ............................................................................................... 52 EXPLORATION OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ................................................................................... 52 DOMESTIC RESOURCE MOBILISATION ........................................................................................................ 52 ADMINISTRATION COSTS OVER PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION .................................................................... 52 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT OF CITIZENRY IN BUDGETING PROCESSES.................................................................. 53 NEED FOR A SADC PROTOCOL FOR CHILDREN .......................................................................................... 53 STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY BASED RESPONSES .................................................................................... 53 CHILD CENTRIC BUDGETING ...................................................................................................................... 53 ENSURING VALUE FOR MONEY .................................................................................................................... 53 ACRONYMS AAAA Addis Ababa Action Agenda ACRWC African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child AfDB African Development Bank AUC African Union Commission DFID Department for International Development, DRM Domestic Resource Mobilisation HNWI High Net Worth Individual DRM Domestic Resource Mobilization FDI Foreign Direct Investment GDP Gross Domestic Product HIV Human Immuno-deficiency Virus ICT Information Communication and Technology ILO International Labour Organization IMF International Monetary Fund LDCs Least Developed Countries OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ODA Overseas Development Assistance REC Regional Economic Bloc SADC Southern Africa Development Community UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child SADC MPS Southern Africa Development Community Minimum Package of Service for Orphans, Vulnerable Children and Youth 4 INTRODUCTION This study is premised on the understanding that beyond the ratifications of international and regional child rights instruments, as well as promulgation of impeccable laws, realisation of children’s rights will not be actualized until adequate resources are availed. The study also appreciates that it is the incumbency of the child rights sector to lobby governments for increased fiscal space so that adequate resources are accorded to children. It is this study’s persuasion that the prerogative to increase fiscal space for children has never been greater. Poor and vulnerable children and their families have been hard hit by the unabated market failures leading to food, fuel and employment shocks. Having exhausted available coping mechanisms, poor and vulnerable children are also likely to be disproportionately affected by reduced public support as well as the different austerity measures that governments in the region are undertaking.1 There is need amongst SADC Member States for the realisation that in spite of the austerity measures in place, investing in children is critical to achieving inclusive, equitable and sustainable development for present and future generations.2 In doing this, there is need to affirm the importance of promoting and protecting children’s rights while ensuring