This report is prepared under the aegis of 19 civil society organizations and networking NGOs of Bangladesh that has been committed to uphold the child rights. This report is an outcome of a thorough consultation process with and among the participating organizations and other stakeholders within the country and a major review of the existing reports, documents and databases related to CRC including the comments and recommendations provided by the UNCRC Committee members was undertaken.

The objective of this study is to analyse critically the trends with respect to the implementation of central themes of CRC- survival, development, protection and participation of children from a thorough review of government periodic reports and shadow reports of NGOs and development partners submitted to CRC Committee so far and as reflected in the existing data. Please note that the other principles of CRCnon-discrimination, accountability and best interest of the children have been examined in this study as cross-cutting issues under these themes. In this process the study identifies gaps in the implementation process and suggests a few measures to overcome weaknesses.

The report has concentrated on four fold analytical framework i.e. (1) Legal and legislations; (2) Budgetary allocation; (3) Policy measures, programs and institutional issues; and (4) Data and Monitoring Mechanism to analyse trends in child survival, development, protection and participation- the four pillars of CRC which would help us to identify gaps in governments’ reports and initiatives, implementation status and monitoring with regard to CRC. The report also has used different analytical tools for better authentication and legitimating of the research. The report has drawn some recommendations based on the findings of analysis. The major recommendations are: expediting the institutional set up to create child right monitoring mechanism within the government including establishment of a Directorate of Children Affairs, activation of child rights commission and introducing the children’s ombudsperson, capacity of primary school teachers have to be enhanced to ensure quality education, importance should be given for the welfare of increasing street children, the age for child labourer inserted in the Bangladesh Labour Law 2006 is needed to bring into international standard, special measure should be taken for the domestic child labourer to protect them exploitation, abuse and violence and make a code of conduct for the employers of child domestic workers, pragmatic action have to take for indigenous children and other minority group children’s education, database management system for children issues should be established immediately, primary school should be accessible to the children with disability, government should develop a National Child Protection Policy, budgetary allocation should follow the provisions of NPA and PRSP, life skill based safety/sex education should be incorporated in the school curriculum etc. We believe that it will be helpful to the CRC Committee for putting the questions to the state party and to put forth the concluding observations subsequently.