The objectives for the 2025 DAC on ‘planning and budgeting for children's rights: progress since 2010’ include:

• Take stock of the progress made by African States in areas of children’s rights over the last decade by analyzing the measures undertaken, challenges encountered, and best practices documenting in budgeting and planning for children;
• Identify the challenges of children in Africa that are affected by lack of child sensitive budgeting and planning
• Encourage Member States to undertake a national assessment of the child-friendliness of their planning and budgeting processes;
• Encourage Member States to undertake legislative reforms of their budget laws and policies to incorporate children's rights perspectives;
• Encourage Member States to ensure the participation of children in the development of national plans and budgets;
• Encourage Member States to increase their budget allocations for children to ensure better implementation of the Charter;
• Advocate for child sensitive fiscal policies and accountability frameworks on budgeting and planning;
• Galvanise political efforts to ensure that public policy decisions support and strengthen children's rights programmes;
• Provide opportunities for exchange, reflection, and advocacy in African countries on child sensitive planning and budgeting
• Mobilise partnerships among stakeholders to increase investment in children;
• Provide policy guidance and create platforms to share stakeholder capacity and experience on child-friendly budgeting and planning issues.