Rights of children in alternative care – filling the gap through peer research
What did you do? The peer research methodology (known as action research) is useful because it empowers young people in academic research, involve them in all …
Youthforia
What do we do? For over 10 years we have brought young people together from across the North West of England to meet, discuss youth led …
Forum – Rights of Children and Youth
What did we do
This event took place in 2019 and 2020 in different formats, due the context that we are living (COVID-19 pandemic). In both years several initiatives took place in order to raise awareness and increase the commitment of different stakeholders such as schools, municipality, civic society organizations (CSO) to promote participation of children and young people in the life of the community as an essential element for the exercise of citizenship and for the development of a sense of belonging.
Specialists, educators, municipality officers from various areas of intervention were involved, and together with the children and youth of Cascais, created spaces for dialogue, reflection and analysis of their rights, needs and interests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoCJJM9wdmI -2019
https://www.cascais.pt/noticia/cascais-promove-forum-dos-direitos-das-criancas-e-jovens – 2019
https://www.facebook.com/122059941234310/videos/3478928002194312 – 2020
Contact: Carolina Loureiro, DYPALL Network (Carolina.loureiro@dypall.com)
The place is called:
Cascais; Portugal
Date
1/11/2019
Ongoing
Children’s City Council Opatija
What did we do
The aims of our project:
• Establishing a relationship of mutual respect, listening and communication between children and the City.
• Developing awareness of the City as a community of all citizens.
• Recognition of rights to all groups of citizens.
• Enabling children to exercise their right to express their opinions.
• Training children to make decisions for themselves and others.
• Developing responsibility for children for decisions they make.
In October 2001, the first meeting of the Coordination Board of the “Children City Council” project was held at the premises of the Administrative Department for Self-Government and City Administration of Opatija.
Children from Children City Council Opatija since 2001 participate in the development of local and national strategies for children.
In its work, the standards of the Children’s City Council of the City of Opatija are governed by:
1. The Children’s City Council of Opatija has it’s own Statute,
2. The sessions of Children’s City Council Opatija are recorded,
3. Children’s City Council Opatija gives it’s proposals for a large city budget, and adults from the city after budget adoption give councilors information on which proposals have entered into the budget,
4. The Mayor and his deputies regularly participate in the sessions of Children’s City Council Opatija,
5. The mayor and his deputies shall answer the questions to the children or provide their answers in writing,
6. The little Children’s City Council Mayor of Opatija follows the big City Mayor in all protocols for children,
7. Children’s City Council Opatija has its budget in the amount of 12.000, kn (1,500 Euro), “My hands grow to you bigger, because I want to give you luck” is the name of the Call for Proposals funds from the Budget of the Children’s City Council of Opatija,
8. Children’s City Council Opatija announces the Contest for children “My Heart and Your Arms need to conquer the whole world with goodness” with the aim of promoting solidarity and humanity among children (primary and secondary school),
9. City expert services provide all the logistical support in project implementation.
http://dnd-opatija.hr/en/project-actions/society-our-children-opatija-and-ministry-of-social-policy-and-youth/
Contact: Antonia Katić, Society “Our children” Opatija (antonia.skoric14@gmail.com)
The place is called:
Opatija, Croatia
Date
1/3/2001
Ongoing
NETWORK OF YOUNG ADVISORS (NYA) – PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN AND THE IMPACT ON THE WORK OF THE OMBUDSMAN FOR CHILDREN
by: Cath Larkins
What did we do
We organize consultation meetings with children and young people and focus group discussions aimed at enhancing children’s involvement in decision-making, are considered as being particularly beneficial.
In 2010, the Ombudsman for Children founded the Network of Young Advisors (NYA) as its standing advisory body and a form of child participation. The NYA members act as advisors to and associates of the Ombudsman for Children, but also as ambassadors, communicating information about the work of the NYA and the Ombudsman for Children to their peers and taking steps to ensure that they know their rights and the ways to protect them. Acting within the scope of their role as advisors, they inform the Ombudsman about their views of the place of children in society and problems faced by children in their communities, suggesting ways to solve these problems. In carrying out their advisory role, they work closely with the Ombudsman for Children and the adult staff members of the Office of the Ombudsman for Children, and exchange views and opinions via a closed online forum. Each member of the NYA promotes and argues for his/her own point of view, acts on his/her own behalf, and does not represent any group, school or town. The NYA members are constantly active in the online forum, which enables a constant exchange of opinions between meetings.
http://dijete.hr/en/publications/
The place is called:
Croatia and International
Date
1/1/2010
18/3/2021
Children’s Parliament
What did we do
Several smaller Children’s Parliaments all around Slovenia and one national meeting of Children’s Parliament
Unfortunately we have one page for Children’s Parliaments only in Slovenian language (which is a tab inside our organization ‘s website): https://www.zpms.si/programi/otroski-parlamenti/
Here is an article in English from our last years experience of running 30th national Children’s Parliament:
https://digy-project.eu/2020/06/11/using-opin-platform-for-30th-childrens-parliament/
Contact: Petra Zega, Slovenian Association of Friends of Youth (petra.zega@zpms.si)
The place is called:
Several cities and Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia
Date
1/9/2019
24/6/2020
Add other important experiences or identities
but mostly none of the above
National Children’s Policy workshops
What did we do
In 2017 a National Children’s Policy was launched and the Office of the Commissioner for Children was tasked with monitoring its implementation, The Office, carried out over 20 workshops with children between the ages of 7 and 15 who attend Church, State and Independent Schools all over Malta and Gozo. the workshops aimed at including children ‘s experiences and opinions in the interim report drawn up to monitor the progress of the implementation of the National Children’s Policy.
https://tfal.org.mt/en/publications/PublishingImages/Pages/Recommendations/Children%27s%20Policy%20Report%202020%20-%20online%20copy.pdf
Contact: Suzanne Garcia Imbernon, Office of the Commissioner for Children (suzanne.gili@gov.mt)
The place is called:
Malta and Gozo
Date
11/11/2019
30/1/2020
Add other important experiences or identities
Since workshops were held within the community then different groups of children would have been involved
The Second Child Rights Report
What did we do
A participatory project in which almost 3000 children all over Germany as experts shared their opinions, views and evaluation of whether their rights are being respected in their every-day lives. The final report included survey results, many child-led individual projects, drawings and conversations from children in nurseries and was part of the official reporting to the United Nations.
https://www.kinderrechtereport.de/ (English Report can be found there)
Contact: Jonas Deitert, National Coalition Germany (jonas.deitert@netzwerk-kinderrechte.de)
The place is called:
Germany
Date
1/11/2018
30/11/2019
Research project on socio-educational integration of migrant children
What did we do
We kicked off the process by running several focus groups with children in different age brackets to go over questions and lead discussions to feed into a cocreated dashboard of indicators for our research.
www.immerse-h2020.eu
Contact: Farzana Islam, Active Citizen Europe (farzana@activecitizeneurope.org)
The place is called:
Mechelen, Belgium
Date
15/5/2019
22/5/2019
Children’s Rights Behind Bars
by: Cath Larkins
What did we do
We organised activities to develop child friendly information tools specially adapted for and accessible to young people deprived of liberty.
http://www.childrensrightsbehindbars.eu/outputs/crbb-2-0-outputs/children-s-empowerment
The place is called:
Belgium
Date
1/10/2017
31/12/2017
