Strategies for inclusive and impactful participation
by: Cath Larkins
Reaching In: What we have learned in 2021 about making children’s participation inclusive and impactful
Rights of children in alternative care – filling the gap through peer research
What is your advice to people wanting to strengthen children’s participation in parliaments? To have functional children’s participation in parliament or government decisions, it is important …
Rights of children in alternative care – filling the gap through peer research
What impact did you want to achieve? The main outcome was to engage young people, equip them with skills and use the evidence they were collecting …
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 …
Children’s Rights Day 2021
Advice on children’s participation: The children involved are the main actors, meaning all the adults are the spectators. Within committees where parliamentarians are present, it is …
Children’s Rights Day 2021
What impact did you want to achieve? The main goal was to have the parliamentarians listen to the young people. Therefore, professional moderators would guide the …
Children’s Rights Day 2021
What did we do? 80 young people, divided into 6 different committees on various topics (selected by a group of youth advisors), worked together on drafting …
RoMOMatteR – Empowering Roma Girls’ Mattering through Reproductive Justice
What do we do? The general objective is to empower Roma girls’ mattering to help them envision their futures and choose motherhood only if and when …
