Tag results for "Participatory Action Research"
Participatory Action Research (PAR) is an approach to enquiry in which researchers and participants work together to understand a situation and change it for the better.
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Terre des hommes
Terre des hommes (Tdh) is the leading Swiss organisation for children’s aid. Through their health, protection and emergency relief programmes, they provide assistance to over four million children and their […]
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Networks for Change and Well-being: Girl-led ‘From the Ground Up’ Policy Making to Address Sexual Violence in Canada and South Africa
The Networks for Change and Wellbeing project draws on methods and approaches to learning ‘from the ground up’ (digital story-telling, participatory video, cellphilms, drawing and mapping, along with social media) […]
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CLARISSA
CLARISSA is a programme co-developing, with stakeholders, innovative and context-appropriate ways to increase options for children to avoid engagement in hazardous, exploitative labour in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal. It is […]
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The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation
The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation, established in 2007, is a research, teaching and networking hub concerned with children and young people’s participation, inclusion and empowerment. They implement […]
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Mestizo Arts & Activism Collective (MAAC)
The Mestizo Arts and Activism Collective (MAA) is a university-community partnership located in the Westside of Salt Lake City, Utah. They are a group of high school students, undergraduate mentors, […]
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Children Unite
Children Unite is a registered, UK-based charity that promotes participatory approaches to working with exploited children. Since 2010 Children Unite has worked in over 15 countries in Africa, Asia and […]
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Children in Focus: A Manual for Participatory Research with Children
This is a training manual for preparing researchers who plan to work with children, which covers topics ranging from ethical considerations in sample selection to data presentation. The manual gives […]
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Listening and Learning Toolkit
This toolkit introduces the user to the L&L methodology, identifies the key considerations for a successful process, and includes guidance on best practice for implementing this research method. The “Listening […]
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Children and Young People’s Participation (CYPP) Training Workshop Guide
This manual is designed to support organisations to promote children and young people’s participation and inclusion in project planning, implementation and evaluation.
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Growing Up in Cities Canada
In Growing up in Cities Canada, IICRD brought a focus to the importance of engaging young people in creating child and youth friendly communities and including them in the decision-making […]
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A Community-Driven Intervention to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy in Two Districts in Sierra Leone
Starting in 2012, the Inter-Agency Learning Initiative on Strengthening Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems established a community-owned and driven intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy in the Moyamba […]
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Young People Leaving Care: Participatory Research to Improve Child Welfare Practices and the Rights of Children and Young People
This paper discusses participatory research with young people who are leaving public care in Finland to begin independent lives. The aim of the research, organised by SOS Children’s Villages International, […]
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You Defend What You Feel: ‘Presencing’ Nature as ‘Experiential Knowing’
This article reflects on a youth-led action research process on climate change adaptation carried out in Cuba between 2013 and 2015. The research explored the question: ‘How are Cuban youth […]
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Urban Community Development With a Focus on the Status of Children in Exceptionally Difficult Circumstances
This paper is a report of phase 1 of the project ‘Children in exceptionally difficult circumstances’ in Amman, Jordan which sought to investigate and characterise the problems confronted by children, […]
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The Growing Up in Cities Project: Global Perspectives on Children and Youth as Catalysts for Community Change
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child contains a set of “participation clauses” which are leading members of development agencies, municipal offices, and community organizations to incorporate […]
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Promoting Climate Change Transformation with Young People in Brazil: Participatory Action Research Through a Looping Approach
Amid research into the mounting social and environmental threats presented by climate change, young people’s everyday experiences and knowledges are often overlooked, despite being the generation that will be most […]
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Negotiating Change: Working with Children and their Employers to Transform Child Domestic Work in Iringa, Tanzania
This paper documents the practical and action-oriented findings of an investigation into child domestic work undertaken in Iringa, Tanzania from 2005 to 2007. It provides an overview of the experiences […]
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Let’s Win this Game Together’: Children’s Rights Violations; Macro-Securitisation and the Transformative Potential of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil
Sport’s transformative potential is known to support marginalised children, to deal with traumatic experiences and instil positive values; yet hosting mega sporting events (MSEs) can have negative impacts. Drawing on […]
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Key Learnings from the PEER Project: A Combined Research Paper
In this research paper the authors describe the aims, general approach and activities of the PEER project. The authors outline the diverse contexts in which they worked. The authors then […]
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From Play to Participation: Including Children in The Process of Development: A Report on The Findings of a PLA Project with Children in India
This is a draft report of research carried out with children’s club members in India which was designed to examine approaches and methods to effectively listen to children’s voices and […]
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Exploring the Role of Children and Young People as Agents of Change in Sustainable Community Development
In 2007, the Department for Children Schools and Families in the UK outlined the Sustainable Schools Strategy setting out an agenda for schools and environmental education. While many schools made […]
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China Earthquake Relief: Participatory Action Work with Children
This article presents a community-focused participatory action project designed to promote children’s resilience in the early aftermath of the cataclysmic May 2008 Earthquake in Beichuan, China. Thirty children aged 7- […]
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Building Towards Effective Participation: A Learning-based Network Approach to Youth Participation
Youth is a phase of life during which people acquire culturally defined roles and statuses. These positions are mobile, as young people navigate between different locations of membership and marginalisation. […]
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Approaches to Children’s Work and Rights in Nepal
Current economic and political trends present particular challenges for countries dealing with the development of industry without the social infrastructure needed to uphold citizens’ rights. As free trade demands competitiveness […]
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A Community-Driven Approach to Reducing Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone Midline Evaluation Brief
Preliminary evidence from a 2009 global evidence review suggested that community-based child protection mechanisms are likely to be more effective and sustainable if they are linked with formal aspects of […]
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