…live in a state of constant insecurity. Only a few cities have incorporated a coherent component to prevent crime and mitigate violence in their urban development agendas. Impact on urban…
…knowledge of the environment. It is suggested that the local neighbour-hood continues to be an important developmental context for young people, and common interests of other population groups are recognized…
…resilient children are in conditions of war and military violence. The reviewed research has been conducted in the context of a Palestinian non-governmental organization, the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme,…
The methodologies of demand-led sanitation programmes (including community-led total sanitation [CLTS] and sanitation marketing) encourage participation of users in the design of appropriate sanitation facilities. There has been limited examination…
In this article, the authors confront challenges faced in public planning projects when the desire to implement participatory design is complicated by the need for mass quantities of data. Using…
The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) provides a governance framework for building child-friendly cities and communities. The framework consists of two pillars: goals and results to be achieved; and strategies…
…acceptance by the communities to which they return. There are personal and social sources of resilience, including emotion regulation, parenting, and social support, for children who are exposed to war….
…own mental, physical problems or due to separation from family and community. O’Kane reviews four studies that conducted research with young and older children in times of war and displacement….
Self-reliance is a key component in any strategy aimed at avoiding or addressing protracted refugee situations, enabling agencies and refugees to find durable solutions that are truly sustainable; providing a…
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) issues these Guidelines to enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health…
…and other decision makers in medium-sized cities to make use of inclusive infrastructure investments in their cities with an eye on increased competitiveness – this should be a two-pronged approach…
…to displaced populations, and finally using a comprehensive analytical framework to model how a city is and is not functioning to highlight gaps in service provision in displacement affected areas….
…Sustainable cities and communities. This review links to the need for inclusion of all people, in particular stressing the importance of those who are disabled, people in all age groups,…
This report has sections on 1) urban actors and local authorities for the implementation of the Global Compact and the integration of migrants in urban areas for migration and development,…
…comprehend the meaning of violence for young children especially when they lack critical language skills which help them to organize their perceptions and express their feelings. There is no way…
…socioeconomic life of precarious communities—through what we call the “living through” and “living on” of participation. While remaining attentive to the infrastructural and political limitations to architectural durability in refugee…
…examples, useful reading references, and links to practical tools (in the annex) on how to implement children’s participation in: 1) research, 2) programming, 3) advocacy, 4) communications, and 5) fundraising….
This book looks at the record of children in modern war told honestly and completely, by two of the world’s outstanding child psychologists, Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham. The work…
…jointly issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP), demonstrate that despite the large scale assistance…
…changes and trends. The contents of this report, jointly issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme…
This toolkit provides practical tools on how to implement children’s participation in: 1) research, 2) programming, 3) advocacy, 4) communications, and 5) fundraising.
…(2) what shapes their understanding of play. In order to answer these questions, a critical discourse was established between two researchers who had each completed ethnographic studies of play in…
…that refugee children face, it is important to do ‘comprehensive psychological interventions’ as well as ‘restoring and supporting the social and physical environment’ so that children and their families can…
…including housing, protection and education. Yet urban areas also present opportunities for the displaced, as well as host communities, to thrive when the right policies are in place. Critical to…
DeCID: Co-designing social infrastructure with children affected by displacement is a project led by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL) and CatalyticAction, and funded by UKRI through the Global Challenges Research Fund.