Child Rights Impact Assessments (CRIA) – Ex ante
ContentsEX-post CRIA - Children’s Rights Impact Evaluation (CRIE)
The ex-post CRIA or Children’s Rights Impact Evaluation (CRIE) provides an opportunity to evaluate whether the legislation, policies or programmes have met their original aims, and to review the impacts (intended and unintended) that they have had on children, leading to future reform of the laws, policies or measures as necessary.
E.g.: Case study: Ex-post CRIA in New Brunswick, Canada.
The province of New Brunswick in Canada introduced a mandatory CRIA process for all Cabinet-level legislative and policy decisions in 2013. The New Brunswick CRIA forms part of the Cabinet document process. It is presented in summary form as part of the Memorandum to Executive Council (MEC), though Cabinet members can request the full version of the CRIA. The aim is for government to assess potential positive and negative effects on children’s rights before making any decision, to ensure that they have enough time to address any issue that might arise and seek out suitable alternatives. Although the New Brunswick government has adopted an ex-ante CRIA model, its Child and Youth Advocate [children’s ombudsperson equivalent] has begun to undertake some ex-post CRIA analysis and is increasingly adopting this process in its Advice to Government functions as a means of improving CRIA practice in New Brunswick.
Source: New Brunswick Child and Youth Advocate, 2016