Child and youth participation resource guide
Involvement in research, analysis, planning, implementation, evaluation
Indicators for assessment
Council for the Welfare of Children and UNICEF, The National Framework for Children’s Participation: A guide in promoting and upholding children’s participation in the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, 2005.
Chapter 5 of this booklet lists quantitative and qualitative indicators for monitoring and assessing children’s participation.
Email: cwc@cwc.gov.ph or manila@unicef.org
Hart, Roger A., ‘Indicators of the Civic Participation of Youth’, PowerPoint presentation, Graduate School of the City University of New York, 2005.
This is a useful list of indicators on the civil and political participation of youth. It includes indicators on young people’s access to information, freedom to associate and participation in school governance, in national politics, in local government decision-making bodies and community activities.
Nomura, Blanca, The Exercise of Shared Power, Escuela Para El Desarrollo and Save the Children, Peru, forthcoming.
This research was commissioned to develop a conceptual framework to understand children’s participation, with a special focus on power relations, to build a typology of the different forms of children’s participation and to design indicators for children’s participation. Children contributed actively to the research process.
Email: library@rb.se or info@rb.se
Poudyal, Udhav, ‘Child Participation’ in Impact Indicator Setting, South and Central Asia, Children No. 8 pg. 42-44, Save the Children UK, Kathmandu, 1997.
This report provides an example of setting programme indicators with children. School children were asked to identify the indicators before and after the implementation of a hygiene project. Children set indicators to measure differences in practices and attitudes towards hygiene.
Rajani, Rakesh, The Participation Rights of Adolescents: A strategic approach, UNICEF, New York, 2001.
This document includes several sections on indicators for child and adolescent participation.
They include: Effective Entry Points for Adolescent Participation and Criteria for Their Selection; Setting and Monitoring Goals for Adolescents; Annex 1: A tool for assessing/promoting effective adolescent participation;
Annex 2: A tool for assessing/promoting effective adolescent participation in schools;
Annex 3: A tool for defining goals and indicators for adolescent participation in schools;
and Annex 4: Real adolescent participation checklist.
Theis, Joachim, Child and Adolescent Participation Strategy, East Asia and Pacific Region, UNICEF EAPRO, Bangkok, 2005.
This strategy paper aims to promote the participation of children and adolescents in the East Asia and Pacific region. It provides a comprehensive analysis of children’s participation and proposes a systematic approach to promoting children’s participation rights to information, expression, decision making and association. It also discusses ways to evaluate and assess the impact of participation
initiatives.
Email: eapro@unicef.org
UNICEF, The World Fit For Children Indicator Guide (Draft), UNICEF, 2005.
This indicator guide was developed by UNICEF within its mandate to prepare and disseminate information on the progress made with the Declaration and Plan of Action of a World Fit For Children. It reflects the agency’s commitment to the 2015 Millennium Declaration and the MDGs, the 2010 WFFC and the participation rights of children and adolescents.
Available from: www.unicef.intranet.org (only accessible by UNICEF staff)
