CFC DevInfo Assessment and Monitoring Toolkit

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)-Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) has partnered with DevInfo in the development of the Child Friendly Cities (CFC) DevInfo assessment and monitoring toolkit. This is designed to help implementing countries automate database management on CFC. It is based on the CFC assessment toolkit and indicators developed through the CFC research initiative.

It comprises: (a) community assessment indicators (derived from the CFC community assessment tools) and (b) CFC objective indicators (derived from other administrative surveys). The toolkit consists of DevInfo templates and Data Capture sheets. The DevInfo templates and Data Capture sheets can be customised and managed by cities or countries that wish to collect data on children's living conditions and child well-being in local settings.

The templates can be accessed and edited using the DevInfo Database Administration application. The CFC assessment data is entered in the Data Capture sheets. These sheets are imported into the DevInfo template to create a CFC DevInfo database. The DevInfo database can be used to search, present, and report the CFC data using the DevInfo User Interface application.

The toolkit contains the following documents, downloadable as either Zip files or as Excel documents:

1. CFC DevInfo Global Assessment Indicators
2. CFC DevInfo Global Objective Indicators
3. CFC Global Data Capture - Play
4. CFC Global Data Capture - Participation and Citizenship
5. CFC Global Data Capture - Safety and Protection
6. CFC Global Data Capture - Health and Social Services
7. CFC Global Data Capture - Educational Resources
8. CFC Global Data Capture - Home Environment