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Participation For, With, and By Girls: Evidencing Impact
This paper presents the findings of a review of publicly available, published evidence on the efficacy of development projects that self-identify as ‘girl-led’, both within academic literature and from established […]
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Beyond the manual
Training manuals are essentially of a time and place, yet change (time) and constructions of childhood (place) rarely feature. Manuals and training cannot stand alone, they need to be combined […]
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Mothers vs Children: Co-opting Child Rights as Gender Backlash
This paper examines how progressive rights frameworks are used as gender backlash tools to suppress feminist activism. The author engages with the events following Rehana Fathima’s political act ‘Body and […]
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See it, Say it, Sorted: Good governance for children at the local level
British Transport Police’s public announcement, “see it, say it, sorted”, is a conspicuous safety and security message, frequently heard in all trains across the UK. The message poignantly drives the […]
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Our animation: Children can do a lot
For the last couple of years, the Rejuvenate programme has been hosting conversations for practitioners and researchers to reflect on child and youth rights and participation, alongside building a living […]
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Uncertainty: Child and Youth Rights and Participation
The sixth Rejuvenate dialogue was held on 15th September 2022. Six panellists working across contexts and themes joined the Rejuvenate team on a discussion on uncertainty and it’s intersection with […]
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Building Girls’ Power: Perspectives on theory and practice in working with adolescent girls
‘Building Girls’ Power’ is part of a multi-year project to document and amplify the theories and practices of political girls’ work. This publication offers three perspectives on how to centre […]
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Radical school spaces for climate action
Climate youth protests have highlighted the radical space of the streets. As many students cannot participate in such action, we ask what a radical space of schooling might look like […]
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Bringing embodiment into work with girls
Embodiment: ‘individuals’ lived experiences in their bodies as they engage with the world’ Considering embodiment in work with girls can help us to understand the effects of gendered oppression, as […]
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Youth and the Mystery Wall
Phil Frampton writes about the crucial importance of teenagers’ collective empowerment from the perspective of his experiences of living in care in England. He expands on this argument by setting […]
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The Concerned for Working Children
The Concerned for Working Children is a not-for-profit secular, democratic development agency based in Bengaluru, India. Active since the late 1970s, they were one of the first organisations in India to […]
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Petition by Working Adolescents: Demanding attention and child-rights friendly response from the State On the 29th April 2021, the eve of National Child Labour Day, India
Working children and adolescents from eight states of India came together to discuss their rights, voice their demands and flag their aspirations at a national event to commemorate 30 years […]
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Joint declaration of the movements of children and adolescent workers in the light of ILO’s 5th Global conference on Child Labour
The Joint Declaration of the movements of children and adolescent workers was put together by the working children and adolescents of Latin America, Africa and Asia to assert their rights, […]
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Young Voices National Report: Submission to the Task Force examining age of marriage and other concerns, July 2020
In 2020, the Ministry of Women and Child Development of Government of India set up a Task Force to examine matters pertaining to the age of motherhood, particularly maternal mortality […]
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Claiming Citizenship: Case Studies of Adolescents Participating in Governance in South Asia
This study documents selected UNICEF South Asia and partner good practices in advancing adolescent participation in governance across local and national initiatives in India, Nepal and Bhutan. It also highlights […]
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Mobile Arts for Peace
Mobile Arts for Peace is a four-year international, multi-disciplinary project which provides a comparative approach on the use of interdisciplinary arts-based practices for peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal. It […]
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Gender in Child and Youth Rights
The fifth Rejuvenate dialogue was held on 19th July 2022. Five panellists working across contexts and themes joined the Rejuvenate team on a discussion on gender in child and youth […]
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Dialogue: Uncertainty: Child and youth rights and participation
Read our summary report and watch the recording below: Date and time: Thursday 15th September 12:30pm-2pm UK Time Young people do not necessarily view uncertainty in their lives as negative, […]
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Child Rights: Through Covid and into Recovery – New and Changing Norms
The series of Rejuvenate dialogues are intended to foster discussion and debate across a community of practitioners working on child and youth rights. In January 2022, we focused on how […]
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Dialogue: Gender in child and youth rights
Read our summary report and watch the recording below. Date: Tuesday 19th July Time: 1pm – 2pm UK Time Zoom registration link: https://bit.ly/3yICejB Join us for our next Rejuvenate dialogue […]
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Mind Of My Own
Mind Of My Own develops trusted digital participation tools for children’s services and schools. Mind Of My Own designs and conscientiously co-produces apps with young people for young people. They […]
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Serving vulnerable children and youth in local communities: Lessons from Ethiopia
Inspired by an opportunity to address the urgent needs of vulnerable children in Ethiopia, CHADET was set up in 1995 to develop projects focused on vulnerable children such as orphans, […]
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Child Rights Connect
Child Rights Connect is an independent, non-profit network made up of more than 85 national, regional, and international organisations. Child Rights Connect was initially set up in 1983 as the […]
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Evidencing Participatory Child Rights Work
The impetus for this dialogue came out our first Rejuvenate working paper – which formed the basis of our living archive. In the paper, we tried to map the people, […]
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Creative Praxis and Working with Children and Young People
The series of Rejuvenate dialogues are intended to foster discussion and debate across a community of practitioners working on child and youth rights. Dialogue three explored the transformative capacity of […]
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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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#CovidUnder19
In April 2020, Terre des hommes (Tdh) launched the #CovidUnder19 initiative by mobilising a group of young people, child rights activists, civil society organisations and UN stakeholders. The initiative set […]
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The Rights Studio
The Rights Studio is a new creative hub for people and organisations to engage on rights issues affecting children, young people and future generations through the arts and other creative […]
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Planet Divoc-91
This project encourages the use of creative methodologies that are steered by young people themselves while bridging global and intergenerational divides through storytelling and creativity. PLANET DIVOC-91 is a nine-part […]
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COVID-19 Discussion Paper: Youth & the COVID-19 Crisis in Conflict-Affected Contexts
For almost a decade, Search for Common Ground (Search) has co-led the global coalition on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) to increase young people’s role as collaborative political and peacebuilding […]
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Resilient Youth in Stressed Environments (RYSE)
Resilient Youth in Stressed Environments (RYSE) is a 5-year multinational research project that explores patterns of resilience among young people in changing environments. Research sites include communities involved in oil […]
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Rise Up
Rise Up activates women and girls to transform their lives, families and communities for a more just and equitable world through investment in local solutions, strengthening leadership, and building movements. […]
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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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Purposeful
Purposeful is an Africa-rooted global hub for girls’ organising and activism. They believe that another world is not only possible, it is already being built right here and now, in […]
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Equal Community Foundation
Equal Community Foundation (ECF) supports adolescent boys in becoming gender equitable adults. Their programmes facilitate change through development and implementation of awareness building, behaviour change programmes, research and strengthening networks. […]
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Breakthrough
Breakthrough was a small human rights organisation when they released an album, Mann Ke Manjeere. The album led to the creation of a music video, which turned into a campaign. […]
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Dialogue: Evidencing participatory child rights work
Read our summary report and watch the recording below. Original invitation: Wednesday 18th May 1pm-2pm (UK Time) Zoom registration: https://bit.ly/3N4X8Op We’re delighted to invite you to our next virtual dialogue. […]
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The invisible role of ‘time’ in realising girls’ right to education
Rachel Booth reflects on the time and space needed for girls’ eduction projects to thrive
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Rumah Sekolah
In Indonesia, during the COVID-19 pandemic, children experienced significant learning loss as the result of school closure. Furthermore, health issues, reduced economic opportunity, and parents’ inability to continue remote learning […]
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Youth participation in fighting the ‘other pandemic’
Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a concerning human rights issue globally that research shows had reached pandemic proportions before the Covid-19 outbreak. GBV cases are alarmingly high globally, even among adolescents. […]
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Dialogue: Creative praxis and working with children and young people
Read our summary report here. You can watch the dialogue on YouTube below: Date: 23 February 2022 Time: 12:00 – 13:00 UK time Platform: Zoom Event Registration: https://bit.ly/3KbKgFC As part […]
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Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (CRif)
The Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (CRif) is a grant-making fund and donor learning community. They aim to reinvigorate and transform the global children’s rights field by building power with youth […]
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Using child rights framework as a tool for gender backlash
On 19th July 2020 activist Rehana Fathima uploaded a video on social media showing her son (14) and daughter (8) painting a phoenix on her naked upper body. The video […]
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Dialogue: Child rights: through Covid and into recovery – new and changing norms
If you missed our dialogue, you can watch the summary report and recording here: ————————————————- Date: 12 January 2022 Time: 12:00 – 13:30 UK time Platform: Zoom Event Registration: https://bit.ly/3K5lGWR […]
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Responding and Reflecting on Child Rights
The series of Rejuvenate dialogues are intended to foster debate across a community of practice working on child and youth rights. Our first dialogue examined the principles that can help […]
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Speaking youth to power at COP26
November 5th was Youth Day at COP26, happening in Glasgow, UK. Early last week, the conference officially started with country delegations, businesses, civil society and young people converging at what […]
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Disrupting adultism in the climate change conversation
This blog draws on ideas from the Rejuvenate Working Paper (Johnson et al.) This week’s news and social media feeds are filled with images of world leaders and protesters attending […]
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Think piece: Tanzanian children’s experience of violence – implications for practice and programming
This think piece explores the implications for programming of a piece of research that explored with children their experience of harm in school settings and started to investigate whether punitive practices […]
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Register for CIRCY webinar: Changing childhoods in Africa
Join colleagues at Sussex University for the following Online Seminar hosted by the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY). Date: Thursday 18th November 2021 Time: 2-4 pm (UK […]
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Pledge a Pad
Pledge a Pad is a youth-led organisation based at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. A group of students founded the organisation in 2010 to address the lack of menstrual […]
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UNGEI Case Study Summary: The Role of Girls’ Education in Pendekezo Letu’s Interventions in Nairobi
Pendekezo Letu (PKL) works to strengthen the entire environment in which street girls exist: the legal system, community structures, schools, families and the girls themselves. Their programmes are based in […]
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Tanzanian students’ experience of safety and inclusion in school
The project seeks to review the literature on social norms theory and use it to inform an innovative research design that adopts the Theory U process (Scharmer, 2012). The project […]
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Citizens 4 Change
Citizens 4 Change (C4C) is a social lab that seeks to understand and resolve the complex social challenge of violence against children by using the “wisdom of the crowd” approach […]
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Improving Justice in Child Contact: Participation Toolkit
This toolkit was produced as part of the Improving Justice in Child Contact (IJCC) project, which ran from November 2018 – January 2021. The toolkit complements wider resources on rights-centred […]
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¿Cuál es la verdad?
This project focuses on Quibdó, the capital of Chocó in the Colombian Pacific: a remote area disproportionately affected by armed conflict and home to mainly Afro-Colombian and indigenous populations who […]
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Global Philanthropy Project
Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support. They aim to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, […]
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Participatory digital methodologies with marginalised young people in “fragile” contexts. A case study from Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic
This briefing is linked to the research project ¿Cuál es la verdad?. The project brought together young people, researchers from Colombia and the United Kingdom, artists, educators and Civil Society […]
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Elevate Children Funders Group
Established in 2011, Elevate Children Funders Group (ECFG) is the leading global network of funders focused exclusively on the wellbeing and rights of children and youth. ECFG currently has 19 […]
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Manufacturing Moral Panic: Weaponizing Children to Undermine Gender Justice and Human Rights
Summary This report is about how faith-based, gender-restrictive groups are using children and child protection rhetoric to manufacture moral panic and mobilise it against human rights related to gender justice, […]
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Dialogue: Responding and reflecting on child rights
Read our summary report here. Lead by a team at IDS and UHI, the goal of the Rejuvenate project is to re-energise the field of child and youth rights in […]
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inHive Global
inHive supports alumni network building. They aim to give young people from low-resourced communities and experiencing various forms of marginalisation access to social capital in forms of connections, relationships, and […]
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Moving Towards Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19 Guide: From Participation to Partnerships
The ‘Moving Towards Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19 Guide: From Participation to Partnerships’ offers quick tips and tools and adaptations to common tools to start engaging with […]
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An Africa fit for children
On June 16, 1976, about ten thousand school children in Soweto, South Africa marched in protest of the poor quality of education they received from their government. The protest which […]
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Unlikely networks: Driving accountability through grassroot youth voices
When development practitioners speak of accountability, they often envision a linear, time-bound set of processes and systems that are required to drive transparency. But the times are different now, there […]
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Collective impact: Children and young people as partners in social change projects
Children and youth participation is central to achieving sustainable development. However, there are several factors to consider for engaging young people in social change projects, especially in countries vulnerable to […]
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Shifting the Field: Philanthropy’s role in strengthening child- and youth-led community rooted groups
In 2019, Elevate Children Funders Group (ECFG) commissioned the exploratory study, ‘Philanthropy’s role in strengthening child- and youth-led community rooted groups.’ The objective of this study was to map current […]
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Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute
The Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute, hosted by the CPC Learning Network, is a multi-part series of conversations and resources for learning, information sharing and actionable next steps. In this series of […]
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Acinonyx Cervidae Hircus: Child-led evaluation of the PPA programme in Cambodia
Plan International and the UK Department for International Development collaboratively developed the Building Skills for Life Programme through a Programme Partnership Agreement. This programme sought to empower adolescent girls and […]
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Catalytic Action
Catalytic Action is a charity that works to empower vulnerable children and their communities through participatory built interventions. They champion the co-production of dignified built environments where everyone can take […]
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DeCID
The DeCID project is a partnership between Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London and Catalytic Action. The project aims to develop a new approach for the participatory […]
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Safeguarding for youth activism: Taking a feminist approach
The practice of safeguarding children and young people is crucial for civil society organisations working with them but currently it comes at a price. Too often, it impedes children’s ability […]
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Explore children and young people’s rights at the Rights Studio Festival
The Rights Studio have announced a series of digital events and artistic content to be showcased throughout April 2021, in collaboration with Child Rights International Network (CRIN). The festival will […]
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YOUR World Research Insecurity and Uncertainty: Marginalised youth living rights in fragile and conflict affected situations in Ethiopia and Nepal International Report on Findings and Impact
Youth Uncertainty Rights (YOUR) World Research has carried out detailed large scale qualitative and participatory research with over 1000 of the most marginalised young people across eight fragile environments in […]
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YOUR world research – Insecurity and uncertainty: Marginalised youth living rights in fragile and conflict affected situations in Nepal and Ethiopia
Youth Uncertainty Rights (YOUR) World Research has carried out qualitative and participatory research with over 1000 of the most marginalised young people across eight fragile environments in Ethiopia and Nepal. […]
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Learning from a Living Archive: Rejuvenating Child and Youth Rights and Participation
This working paper reflects the findings of the first phase of the REJUVENATE project, which set out to understand and map approaches to integrating children, youth, and community participation in […]
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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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Pendekezo Letu
Pendekezo Letu, meaning “our choice” in Swahili, is a Kenyan non-governmental organisation that was established in May 1997 to assist street children and their families escape abject poverty and lead […]
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Child Hope
Child Hope UK was set up and supported by UNICEF and Save The Children (Sweden) in 1989. Today, all of their programme work is delivered through local partners. They work […]
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Fridays for Future
FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE or FFF, is a global climate strike movement that started in August 2018, when 15-year-old Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate. On the 8th of […]
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Girl Child Network
Girl Child Network is a community-based activist development organisation that seeks to promote the rights and empowerment of the girl child in the home, school and community. Girl Child Network […]
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Raising Voices
Based in Kampala, Uganda, Raising Voices aims to prevent violence against children and women. Through partnerships with more than 60 organisations spread throughout the Horn, East and Southern Africa, Raising […]
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Youth Network for Sustainable Development (YNSD)
Youth Network for Sustainable Development (YNSD) is a non-governmental, non-profit making indigenous organisation in Ethiopia which was founded in 2003 by four school clubs and fifteen youth associations. Currently, YNSD […]
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War Child
War Child was founded in 1993 by filmmakers David Wilson and Bill Leeson and uses music, and high-profile pop stars, to help publicise the plight of children caught up in […]
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United We Dream
United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led community in the USA. UWD empowers people to develop their leadership, their organising skills, and to develop their own campaigns to fight […]
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Tostan
Tostan is an international nonprofit headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. Tostan uses a three-year empowerment programme that puts rural communities in charge of their own futures. Communities set their own vision […]
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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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Smart Girls Uganda
Smart Girls Uganda is a non-profit, girl centred, national organisation that empowers and mentors girls to speak out, be decision makers and create visionary change. Smart girls was founded in […]
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Set Her Free
Set Her Free equips Uganda’s most vulnerable girls and young women with the knowledge and skills that they need to lead self-determined lives, forever breaking the cycle of poverty.
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Search for Common Ground
SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND (SFCG) is the largest dedicated peacebuilding organisation. Since 1982, SFCG has worked to end violent conflict and to build healthy, safe, and just societies all over […]
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Save the Girl Child Uganda
SAVE THE GIRL CHILD FOUNDATION UGANDA is a non-profit organisation which realises the significance of a positive influence on the girl child in the development of the society through holistic […]
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The Warren Centre
Established in 1983, The Warren Youth Project provides vital support services to young people in Hull. The Warren Centre offers free support, guidance, training, education, counselling, employability skills/training, and creative […]
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Sauti ya Wanawake
Sauti Ya Wanawake – Pwani (The Voice of Women), popularly known as Sauti, started as a local women’s movement in Mombasa, Kenya in 2001. Sauti aims to create a safe […]
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Safe Community Youth Initiative
Safe Community Youth Initiative (SCYI) – formerly the Mtwapa Youth Association – is a non profit, non-partisan, CBO founded in 2004. Based in Kilifi, Kenya, SCYI has four main programmes: […]
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Remenant Generation
The Remnant Generation was founded in 2011 and was registered as Not for Profit, Non-Government Organisation in 2015 under Non-Government Organisation Act of the Laws of Uganda. The Remnant Generation […]
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Promundo
Promundo, whose name means “for the world,” was founded in 1997 in Brazil with the belief that gender equality is a social “good” for the world, and that overcoming gender […]
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People in Need Agency (PINA)
People In Need Agency (PINA) is a youth-led non- governmental organisation registered by the government of Uganda, Wakiso district, Entebbe Municipal Council and Makindye Ssabagabo Municipality. It was established to […]
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Otto Benecker Foundation
The Otto Benecker Foundation was founded in 1996 by young people in Mathare, the second largest informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. The foundation began as a girls’ football team that […]
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Peace Trust
Peace Trust is a non-partisan, non-political, secular and non-governmental organisation engaged in promoting eradication of child labour, welfare of migrant labour, protection of environment and awareness of health and hygiene. […]
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Neighbours Peace Initiative
Neighbours Peace Initiative is a Civil Society Organisation formed in 2007 and registered with the Ministry of Gender and Social Development in 2009. Initially it was formed to prevent and […]
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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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Mama Cash
Mama Cash was conceived around a kitchen table in Amsterdam in 1983. Since then, it has grown from a group of five feminist activists into an international fund that supports […]
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MAEJT (African Movement of Working Street Children and Youth)
Started in 1994 in Côte d’Ivoire, Le Mouvement Africain des Enfants et Jeunes Travailleurs (MAEJT) is a child-led organisation aimed at protecting working children and youth. MAEJT currently operates in […]
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Local Youth Corner Cameroon
Local Youth Corner Cameroon is a national, non-profit, non-governmental and youth-led organisation created in 2002 with a focus of working with youths within the ages of 15 to 35. Their […]
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Lifting the Barriers
LIBA is a non-profit, non-sectarian, child-centred education development organisation whose vision is a world where all children live happier, healthier and fulfilling lives free from poverty, pain and ignorance. LIBA […]
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Kwa Wazee
Kwa Wazee Switzerland is a charitable association according to Swiss law, based in Bern. It provides a prominent part of the funding for the partner organisation Kwa Wazee Nshamba which […]
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Kiota Womens Health and Development (KIWOHEDE)
Kiota Womens Health and Development (KIWOHEDE) is a non- government organisation which focuses on promoting reproductive health, children’s rights, development and advocacy. The organisation was founded in 1998 by health […]
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Kesho Kenya
Kesho Kenya is a dynamic, medium sized and growing NGO currently facilitating over 700 children to access schools and universities and also supports more than 12,000 of their siblings, peers, […]
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Just Like my Child
Since its inception in 2006, Just Like My Child Foundation (JLMC) has delivered healthcare services, education, microenterprise, social justice, leadership and empowerment programs to over 200,000 individuals—primarily women and children—in […]
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HIMD – Health Integrated Multisectoral Development
Health Integrated Multisectoral Services (HIMS) is a registered non-governmental organisation working on a charitable basis. HIMS campaigns to end FGM in pastoral communities in Tanzania and Eastern Africa. HIMS collaborates […]
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Health Child
Health Child was started in 2006 by three people who came together to contribute towards children and women wellbeing after working with communities in micro-finance companies. One on the founders […]
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FRIDA
FRIDA provides young feminist organisers with the resources they need to amplify their voices and bring attention to the social justice issues they care about. FRIDA enables the support, flexibility […]
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Fireflight Foundation
Firelight is a multi-donor public charity fund that raises money from foundations, individuals and institutions to support community-based organisations (CBOs) in eastern and southern Africa. Firelight believes in the power […]
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Fird
Foundation for Integrated Rural Development (FIRD) is a women-led non–profit organization based in Northern Uganda working towards the prevention of violence against women and children and strives to improve the […]
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Eshet Children and Youth Development Organization
Eshet Children and Youth Development Organization (ECYDO) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation with a goal of improving the opportunities for children and young people. ECYDO cares about the social and […]
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Endurance Youth Association
Endurance Youth Association (EYA) is a not-for-profit membership based Ethiopian resident charity established in 2004. EYA works with beneficiaries ages 18-35 that it defines as “Opportunity Neglected Youth” (ONY), or […]
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Elimu Mwangaza
Elimu Mwangaza, Tanzania is dedicated to ending child abuse and violence and supporting vulnerable girls and boys to access quality education in Tanzania. Their aim is to raise awareness in […]
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CRIN
CRIN is a creative think tank that produces new and dynamic perspectives on human rights issues, with a focus on children’s rights. CRIN challenges the status quo because the norms […]
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CWISH
Children-Women in Social Service and Human Rights (CWISH) is a women-led not for profit, non-government organization (NGO), established in 1993 with an aim to ensure social justice, protection and promotion […]
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CPC Learning Network
The CPC Learning Network convenes academics, policymakers, and practitioners to promote innovative research, nurture communities of learning, and build the next generation of researchers and advocates for children and families […]
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Concern for the Girl Child
Concern for the Girl Child (CGC), founded by Dr.Ann F Hayes and the late Freddie Henry Kasozi in 2001, is a child-focused Non-Government Organisation in Uganda. CGC’s major purpose is […]
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ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund Alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development organisations that helps nearly 16 million children and their families in more than 60 countries. ChildFund Alliance works to end […]
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Child-to-Child
Child to Child is an international child-rights agency located at the Institute of Education, University of London. A pioneer of the children’s participation movement, the Child to Child concept was […]
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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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Consortium for Street Children (CSC)
Consortium for Street Children (CSC) is the only global network dedicated to raising the voices of street-connected children. CSC works with more than 130 community organisations, national and international non-governmental […]
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Child Frontiers
Child Frontiers is a consulting company that promotes the care, well-being and protection of children. They provide a comprehensive package of services to development and humanitarian agencies. Their portfolio of […]
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CHADET
CHADET is a charitable organisation registered in Ethiopia that works for the protection and welfare of children found under difficult circumstances. The establishment of CHADET coincided with the period when […]
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Centre for Education in Health and Environment (CESESMA)
CESESMA, the Center for Educational Services in Health and the Environment, is an independent non-governmental organisation that works with children and adolescents in the coffee-growing zone of northern Nicaragua. Dependence […]
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Catholic Action for Street Children
Catholic Action for Street children (CAS) is a local Non Governmental Organization (NGO) established in 1992 to provide support to children living on the street of Accra, Ashaiman and Tema […]
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Aware Girls
Aware Girls is a young women-led organisation working for women empowerment, gender equality, and peace in Pakistan. They are working to strengthen the leadership capacity of young women enabling them […]
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Aschiana Foundation
Aschiana (“nest” in Dari Farsi) was founded in 1995 by Engineer Yousef Mohamed to help children working on the streets in Kabul, Afghanistan. Aschiana Foundation invests in the education and […]
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Aridland
ADP is a Christian organization which started in 2004 with the aim of serving the poor and marginalised people in the Karamoja sub region of Uganda (Abim, Kotido, Kaabong, Napak, […]
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AnaTaban
Ana Taban is a South Sudanese artists’ collective dedicated to bringing peace to the country. It is formed of young painters, muralists, musicians, designers, poets and performers. First started in […]
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Action for Fundamental Change and Development
Action for Fundamental Change and Development (AFFCAD) is a youth-led nonprofit organization founded in 2009 to transform living conditions in Kampala’s poorest slum areas by empowering the children, youth and […]
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PEER Action Guide – By Young Roma for Young Roma and ALL children
PEER is a consortium of 12 partners from Romania, the UK, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Spain, Lithuania, Ireland and Italy. It has supported more than 500 Roma young people to learn […]
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Practice Standards in Children’s Participation
The what, why, and how of each of Save the Children’s child participation practice standards. The primary purpose of these practice standards is to ensure consistent high quality child participation […]
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Participation Spice it Up! : Practical Tools for Engaging Children and Young People in Planning and Consultations
Packed full of practical tools and ideas for engaging children and young people, Participation – Spice it Up! is serious fun and a fun way to deal with serious issues. […]
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Communicating with Children; Helping Children in Distress
In times of war, disaster and emergency, children become lost or abandoned, experience deprivation and ill-treatment, and witness violence. Beyond protection, food, healthcare, and a home, children need emotional and […]
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Steps for Engaging Young Children in Research – Volume 1: The Guide
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Why do ‘they’ hate ‘us’? is a painful starting point for trying to make sense of the tangled web of global restructuring, politics and racism. The discussion draws upon ‘Dreaming […]
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‘Me at the Centre’: Perspectives of Children with Disabilities on Community-Based Services in Serbia
This paper presents results of the research into perspectives of children with disabilities on the space within community-based services in Serbia.
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‘Like It, Don’t Like It, You Have To Like It’: Children’s Emotional Responses to the Absence of Transnational Migrant Parents in Lombok, Indonesia
This article explores the experiences and emotions of children in rural East Lombok, Indonesia, who stay behind with relatives or neighbours while their parents leave the country for work. The […]
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‘He Always Thinks He is Nothing’: The Psychosocial Impact of Discrimination on Adolescent refugees in Urban Uganda
Armed conflict causes massive displacement, erodes the social fabric of communities, and threatens the healthy development of a nation’s future – its youth. Although more than half of the world’s […]
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‘Doing It Right?’: Working with Young Researchers in Malawi to Investigate Children, Transport and Mobility
This paper explores involving children in Malawi in research about young people, mobility and transport, respecting their rights of participation, education, and protection from exploitation. The Malawi study forms one […]
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Innovations to Engage Youth in Accountability Work in Liberia
In Liberia’s post-conflict context, there is a new generation of young people coming of age who did not experience the conflict. The Accountability Lab, a civil society organisation that works […]
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Pikin to Pikin Tok
Child to Child had been working in partnership with the Sierra Leonean NGO, the Pikin-To-Pikin Movement, to implement a 5 year community-based Early Childhood Development project in the remote Eastern […]
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Accountability Lab
The Accountability Lab makes governance work for people by supporting active citizens, responsible leaders and accountable institutions. Their goal is a world in which resources are used wisely, decisions benefit […]
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