DDR and Children Operational Guideline

Abstract

This guideline aims to provide African stakeholders, particularly AU member states, but also the AU, RECs, RMs, and PSOs with operational guidelines to assist in designing and building institutional frameworks for a national DDR programs. The special rights of the child are articulated in the above conventions as well as several United Nations Security Council resolutions. They include states’ obligations to consider the special needs of children as well as their dependents as part of DDR and to protect them from recruitment, abduction, rape and other forms of sexual violence. These rights have been developed into several operational principles that should guide DDR programming.