enabling child and youth participation in poverty eradication
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Enabling Child and Youth Participation in Poverty Eradication. International Forum on the Eradication of Poverty 15-16 November, 2006 Tracy Dolan Program Advisor Christian Children’s Fund. Who is CCF?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Enabling Child and Youth Participation in Poverty
Eradication
International Forum on the Eradication of Poverty
15-16 November, 2006Tracy Dolan
Program Advisor
Christian Children’s Fund
Who is CCF?
Christian Children's Fund creates an environment of hope and respect for children in need in which they have opportunities to achieve their full potential, and provides children, families and communities with practical tools for positive change.
Child Participation as part of CRC What does the Convention on the Rights of the Child say
about participation?“the child who is capable of forming his/her own views (has)
the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child…”
“…this right shall include…the freedom to seek, receive and impart information of all kinds…either orally, ,in writing or in print, in the form of art or through any other media of the child’s choice.”
CCF’s Commitment to Promoting Child and Youth Agency
How does CCF’s work reflect the concept of ‘child and youth agency’?CCF’s Children and Poverty StudyChildren’s Involvement in Program PlanningChildren’s Involvement in Governance
Children and Poverty: Voices of Children
Why ask children? Adult vs. child
perspectives on poverty How do children
experience poverty - Deprivation, Exclusion, Vulnerability
“Children do very little to alleviate poverty, they don’t have proper awareness or knowledge of it” (Adult, Sri Lanka)
“We work so that the boys can go to school” (Adolescent girl, Sierra Leone)
Children’s Involvement in Community Development Programs
Children’s contribution to community development planning in Zambia
Children and youth as part of program review and reflection in Ecuador
What conditions need to be in place to involve children in planning?
How do they contribute to planning?
Children and youth in Los Bancos, Ecuador make plans to review progress of
youth programs
Children in Governing Positions
Child participation in adult management vs. child leadership through child/youth federations
Lessons Learned Children can contribute
meaningfully to community development
All kinds of children need to be heard – including those who are often invisible
Adults need to learn how to support children’s participation in poverty eradication
Participation needs to be more concrete – not just a ‘concept’ – children and adults need real tools