Monitoring the First Phase of the Implementation of the Strategy on Action for Children 2012—2017: Main Outcomes

The article describes the first phase results of the initial actions of the National Strategy for Action on Children 2012–2017, identifies the place and role, the main tasks of monitoring made by Moscow State University of Psychology & Education at the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. It is noted that in order to monitor and provide methodological support to the regions of the Russian Federation, Information and Methodical Center on Support of the National Strategy for Action on Children was established. Monitoring includes several stages and it was attended by 86 Russian regions. We present the main content of each stage, the results of expert analysis of monitoring data in key areas and key activities of the National Strategy, best practices and identified problems in the implementa- tion of the National Strategy.