Child and youth participation resource guide
Involvement in research, analysis, planning, implementation, evaluation
Planning, design, implementation
CIDA, RBM and Children’s Participation: A guide to incorporating child participation results into CIDA Programmes, Child Protection Unit, Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, 2003.
This guide was developed to help CIDA staff and development partners to integrate children’s participation into project and programme plans. It focuses on planning for children’s participation rather than on providing methodologies and tools. It includes a reading list on various aspects of children’s participation.
Commonwealth Secretariat, Three: Adolescent Participation and the Project Cycle, London, 2005.
Developed in collaboration with UNICEF’s Adolescent Development and Participation Unit, New York, this booklet is part of a set of four how-to guides for promoting meaningful adolescent participation in decision making. The booklet describes youth participation in different stages of the project cycle: situation analysis, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review.
Cook, Philip, Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Stuart Hart, Children as Partners: child participation promoting social change, Canadian International Development Agency and The International Institute for Child Rights and Development, ISBN 1-55058-286-0, Canada, 2005.
This report was commissioned by CIDA to examine current literature and examples of good practice in programmes supporting the meaningful participation of children and adolescents in the context of children’s rights. The report is aimed at development agencies wishing to support.
Driskell, David, Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A manual for participation, Earthscan, UNESCO in collaboration with members of the Growing Up in Cities Project, London, 2002.
This is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. The methods and contents of this manual have been field-tested. The case studies help to demonstrate the methods in action and show how they can be customized.
Dynamix Ltd, Participation Spice It Up! Practical tools for engaging children and young people in planning and consultation, Save the Children UK, London, 2003.
This publication provides ideas and values that underlie youth participation approaches. It includes tried and tested examples of over 40 activities. The topics cover everything from getting started and gathering information to long-term planning and evaluation.
Email: dynamix@seriousfun.demon.co.uk
Fajerman, Lina, Michael Jarrett and Sutton Faye, Children as Partners in Planning, Save the Children UK, London, 2001.
This training manual is aimed at building the capacity of professionals working with younger children in consulting and facilitating their participation. It explains what consulting with children involves and provides three training programmes with resources and handouts. Includes many case studies.
Family Health International, ‘Youth Participation Institutional Planning Tool’, Marx, Maxwell, William Finger, Hally Mahler (eds.), in Youth Participation Guide: Assessment, planning and implementation, YouthNet and Family Health International in collaboration with Advocates for Youth, ISBN 0 939704 93 5, Arlington, VA, USA, 2005.
The youth participation institutional planning tool provides guidance to organizations to assess their current practice on child and youth participation. It helps them plan for improved structures and mechanisms for children’s meaningful participation.
Hart, Roger A., Children’s Participation: The theory and practice of involving young citizens in community development and environmental care, Earthscan, ISBN 1853833223, London, 1997.
This manual focuses on conceptual issues, processes and methods of involving children in community development projects. It includes case studies from diverse cultures and social classes to demonstrate a range of useful and effective techniques to facilitate children’s participation in projects.
Irby, Merita, Thaddeus Ferber and Kren Pittman, ‘Youth Action: Youth contributing to communities’, in Community and Youth Development Series, Vol. 6, Forum for Youth Investment, Maryland, USA, 2002.
This publication discusses youth action and how it can be supported. It explores the converging trends in youth development, civic and community development, and identifies common themes and differences between different kinds of youth action. It introduces the concept of creating action pathways for youth and offers recommendations for planning and policy.
Kirby, Perpetua, Claire Lanyon, Kathleen Cronin and Ruth Sinclair, Building a Culture of Participation: Involving children and young people in policy, service planning, delivery and evaluation, Handbook, National Children’s Bureau, Department for Education and Skills, Nottingham and P.K. Research Consultancy, ISBN 0-9546695-1-7, 2003.
This handbook draws on the findings of a research study that explored the experiences of 29 organizations in seeking to listen to young people and to take action on what they said. It moves beyond the acceptance of children’s involvement in organizations and looks at how commitments can be translated into practice by bringing about changes within organizations to actively involve children and young people in services and policy making.
Krauskopf, Dina and Ginet Vargas, Adolescent Participation Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean: Systematisation of Projects, UNICEF TACRO, Panama City, 2003.
This document is the result of a questionnaire and a regional workshop on experiences with adolescent participation. The paper maps out programmes with adolescents and analyses concepts, types and levels of participation in each sector. It examines factors that contribute to the success and failure of interventions involving adolescents.
Email: tacro@unicef.org
Marx, Maxwell, William Finger and Hally Mahler (eds.), Youth Participation Guide: Assessment, planning and implementation, YouthNet and Family Health International in collaboration with Advocates for Youth, ISBN 0 939704 93 5, Arlington, VA, USA, 2005.
The Youth Participation Guide seeks to increase the level of meaningful youth participation in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programming at an institutional and programmatic level. The target audience includes senior and middle management, programme managers, staff involved in implementing activities and youth who may be engaged at all levels of an organization’s work.
Miller, Judy, A Journey of Discovery: Children’s creative participation in planning, Save the Children UK, London, 1999.
This handbook describes how younger children can take responsibility and make decisions.
Munier, Asif, Lena Karlsson, Ravi Karkara and Alam Shamsul, Strengthening Girls and Boys Participation Through a Child-Rights Programming Approach, Save the Children Sweden/ Denmark, Regional Office for South and Central Asia, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2004.
These workshop proceedings contain information on promoting children’s participation in programming from a child-rights perspective.
Regional Working Group on Child Labour, Learning to Work Together: A handbook for managers on facilitating children’s participation in actions to address child labour, Regional Working Group on Child Labour, ISBN 074-90 865-3-8, Bangkok, 2003.
This book combines lessons learned by working children and adults who have participated in child labour programmes, with insights from the growing literature on this subject. It targets programme managers for promoting children’s participation in programmes to combat child
labour. Key themes include: implementation, monitoring and evaluation, child-to-child, and communication about child labour.
UNICEF, Working For and With Adolescents: Some UNICEF examples, UNICEF, New York, 2002.
This report presents experiences from 22 UNICEF offices in working with and for young people.
UNICEF, Creating a Culture of Participation: Voices of Mongolian adolescents telling the UN story, Government of Mongolia, UNESCO, UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, Ulaanbaatar, 2004.
This document is the result of comprehensive consultations with adolescents who are members of students councils, adolescent consultative boards, youth clubs and health cabinets. The adolescents were involved in initiatives implemented with support from UNESCO, UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF and the Government of Mongolia. It describes various activities and analyses their impact.
