In 2008, as part of its Pan-African evidence-based advocacy, the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) developed the first ever Child-Friendliness Index (CFI) which serves as an empirical framework to measure, monitor, and analyze the performance of African governments in ensuring the dignity and rights of children.
This pioneering and powerful policy and advocacy tool scores and ranks the performance of governments based on a rights-based and statistically robust methodology that has gone through several validation processes.