Participation

• Children and Patricipation: Research, monitoring, and evalutation with children and young people
  • This publication is about participatory information gathering in the process of research, monitoring and evaluation with children and young people. Its purpose is to guide the reader toward sources of information rather than provide detailed descrptions of particpatory project work or involving children in advocacy or policy work. Key sources are therefor highlighted either after each piece of text, or at the end in the bibliography.
• Children participation - Evaluating effectivenes - International institute for environment and development
  • This note examines issues surrounding the evaluation of children's participation. It considers: what happens when children have opportunities to play an active role in shaping their communities and the conditions for their own well-being; how to determine if these initiatives serve the ideals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; and how to make evaluation itself a partnership between children and adults.
• Monitoring and Evaluation of Children's participation in development projects
  • A guide created by Save the Children Sweden and the School for Development, offering tools for building indicators of children's participation.
    
    The document is divided into the following sections:
    
    chapter one develops the conceptual background of child participation assumed by Save the Children Sweden, upon which this proposal is based.
    Chapter two shows the methodological proposal as such, and chapter three presents the results of the application of this proposal in the organisations that participated in the validation process.
    These results can be taken as a source of reference for the application of other experiences.
• Practice Standards in Children’s Participation
  • This publication presents a set of practice standards developed by Save the Children on the basis of its experience in children's participation in countries across the world.
• RBM and Cildren's Participation: A Guide to Incorporating Child Participation results into CIDA Programs
  • This guide was developed to help CIDA staff and development partners to incorporate child participation results into relevant project and programs plans, in keeping with CIDA's policy and practice of RBM. This guide and its tools were developed based on the needs of stakeholders within CIDA who are currently involved in implementing projects involving child participation.
• So you want to consult with children? A toolkit of good practice
  • A comprehensive guide to organizing consultations with groups of children or young people, and the role of adults in creating a safe and enabling environment for meaningful child participation.
• The Rights of the Child, Analytical report - Flash Eurobarometer, 2008
  • This survey (Flash Eurobarometer 235: The Rights of the Child) was conducted to determine how much young people (15-18 years old) knew about the Rights of the Child, the extent to which these rights were protected and which actions should be taken as a priority to improve them at national and European levels.
• The Rights of the Child, Analytical report - Flash Eurobarometer, 2009
  • The Flash Eurobarometer “The Rights of the Child” is part of a trend survey; the results of the previous wave were published in 2008. A comparison, between 2008 and 2009 results, concerning young people’s knowledge and opinions about the rights of under 18 year-olds, showed very few significant differences.
• UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2003
  • The State of the World’s Children 2003 reports on child participation — the ‘right’ of all children to have their opinions taken into account when decisions are being made that affect them. The report showcases examples of meaningful child participation from every region of the world.