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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a legally-binding international agreement setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of every child, regardless of their race, religion or abilities. The UNCRC consists of 54 articles that set out children’s rights and how governments should work together to make…

Publication year: 1989
Content Type: Other document

UnSettlement: Urban Displacement in the 21st Century

The increasingly long-term and intractable nature of displacement, particularly for people in low and middle-income countries, means that camp settings are not a viable option in the long term. In the 21st century urban centres have increasingly become destinations for internally displaced people. This is not a new phenomenon, but its real scale at regional…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Update: Durable Solutions for Syrian Refugees

The key durable solutions for refugees from Syria are resettlement and complementary pathways of admission to a third country, voluntary return to Syria in safety and dignity, and protection and assistance in countries of asylum. UNHCR is pursuing policy, programmatic and strategic directions across the region to facilitate access to durable solutions while maintaining protection…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Report

Urban Heart: Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool

The Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) helps urban policymakers, communities and other stakeholders better understand the local socio-economic factors that influence health outcomes and tackle urban health inequities. The tool serves to identify and correct policies that perpetuate these inequities, for instance, the higher rates of illness and death among the children…

Publication year: 2010
Content Type: Report

Urban Refuge: How Cities Are Building Inclusive Communities

This report highlights the efforts of 23 city governments worldwide that are supporting displaced populations. It serves as a call to action for private sector and international humanitarian actors to build on these efforts as urban displacement increases. It includes case studies from cities at the forefront of displacement stemming from the largest current crises,…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Using Cross-Cultural Conversations to Contextualize Understandings of Play: A Multinational Study

The study examines two researchers’ perspectives on play in the lives of children from diverse cultural contexts. Two questions guided this study: (1) how do researchers conceptualize children’s play and (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…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Academic paper

Using Minecraft for Youth Participation in Urban Design and Governance

The purpose of this paper is to outline UN-Habitat’s approach to using information and communication technology (ICT) as an enabler to encourage youth participation in urban design and governance. In 2012 UN-Habitat started working with Mojang, the makers of the popular computer game Minecraft. Through the partnership with Mojang, Block by Block, UN-Habitat uses Minecraft…

Publication year: 2015
Content Type: Toolkit

Using Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Foster Engagement and Self-Organization in Participatory Urban Planning and Neighbourhood Governance

This editorial explores the potential of social media and mobile technologies to foster citizen engagement and participation in urban planning. We argue that there is a lot of wishful thinking, but little empirically validated knowledge in this emerging field of study. We outline key developments and pay attention to larger societal and political trends. The…

Publication year: 2015
Content Type: Academic paper

Vasyr 2017: Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

The 2017 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (VASyR) is the fifth annual survey assessing the situation of a representative sample of registered Syrian refugee households to identify situational 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)…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Report

Vasyr 2018: Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

The Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (VASyR) assesses a representative sample of Syrian refugee families to identify changes and trends in their situation. 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 (WFP), demonstrate that…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Visioning as Participatory Planning Tool: Learning from Kosovo Practices

This sourcebook draws from the experience of several successive programmes implemented by UN-Habitat in Kosovo, which used visioning as a participatory planning tool. The toolkit explains a) the role of visioning in participatory planning; b) the methodology of visioning; and c) learning from the experiences in Kosovo. The goal is to explore ideas and tools…

Publication year: 2012
Content Type: Toolkit

War and Children

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 focuses on how war affects psychological development in children; the need for personal attachment, for emotional stability, and for permanency of educational influence.

Publication year: 1943
Content Type: Book

War, Conflict and Play

This book provides an overall view of the impact of war and displacement on children and their development. It notes that children can be affected by direct exposure to conflict but also by indirect factors such as the emotional state of their carers. While play can have a hugely positive effect on children’s development and…

Publication year: 2005
Content Type: Book

War-Related Exposure and Psychological Distress as Predictors of Health and Sleep: A Longitudinal Study of Kuwaiti Children

This article aims to determine whether exposure to war-related trauma during childhood predicted posttraumatic stress, self-reported health, sleep, and obesity in adulthood, and whether psychological distress mediated the relationships. They assessed 151 Kuwaiti boys and girls aged 9 to 12 years in 1993 to determine their level of exposure to war-related trauma during the Iraqi…

Publication year: 2009
Content Type: Academic paper

We Are Here. A Child Participation Toolbox

This Toolbox is designed to support children and adults who advocate for the rights and well-being of children, through children’s participation. It contains tools and exercises that can help children and adults prepare for their roles in a very practical way.

Publication year: 2020
Content Type: Toolkit

What Is It That Makes Participation in Design Participatory Design?

Despite renewed enthusiasm for participatory design it continues to be appropriate to question how it is conceived. Given the plurality and diversity of participatory design, and of the different communities in which it is applied, what is it that makes it participatory design rather than something else? What are the common themes, characteristics and qualities…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Academic paper

Working Together: a Guidebook for Training of Trainers on Mainstreaming Children’s Participation

The Guidebook consists of 15 modules and covers pre-training knowledge assessment, training methods, and evaluation. The materials here are suitable for planning, conducting, and evaluating an entire programme of training. It is a useful tool for practitioners to structure, design, and augment their training on children’s participation.

Content Type: Toolkit

Working with Young Children Who Are Victims of Armed Conflict

The article gives evidence of psychosocial interventions designed to help children affected by conflict and displacement. Through a systematic review, the article concludes that psychosocial interventions and normalisation of routines are more effective than therapeutic interventions that draw on PTSD and thus tend to impose cultural norms from minority world countries.

Publication year: 2010
Content Type: Academic paper

Young Children’s Rights: Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice

This book examines how children’s rights as set out in the UNCRC applies to young children (0-8 years old). It discusses how to find a balance between children’s provision, protection and participation rights, especially when adults consider that they are looking out for a child’s ‘best interest’ they become overprotective and deny children their right…

Publication year: 2008
Content Type: Book

Youth Participation Best Practices Toolkit: Part II

This is the second part of the Youth Participation Toolkit, coordinated by Save the Children. It contains tools, methods, tips, exercises, and training workshops for improving youth participation. The Education for Youth Empowerment (EYE) programme targets a relatively wide age group, 12-24 year olds, in various countries. The toolkit is rather generic so prospective users…

Publication year: 2016
Content Type: Toolkit

Youth-Centred Design Toolkit

The Youth-Centred Design Toolkit provides tools and techniques to include child and youth voices in the development of meaningful programming that reflects the real needs of today’s kids. This Youth-Centred Design (YCD) Toolkit helps teams of colleagues, children, youth, their families or caregivers and organizational partners explore and design solutions together. The YCD toolkit has…

Content Type: Toolkit

Depressive Symptomology Among Namibian Adolescent Refugees

Symptoms of depression have been considered rare in sub-Saharan populations. Using a standard assessment measure of depressive symptomatology, the Beck Depression Inventory, the prevalence of symptoms of depression was obtained from a group (N = 56) of Namibian refugees (ages 12-23) residing in a sub-Saharan host country. Average time spent in host country 5 years.…

Publication year: 1985
Content Type: Academic paper

Cultural Variations in the Play of Toddlers

The present study examines differences in the social play of toddlers from four communities. Fourteen children, between the ages of 12 and 24 months, from four cultural communities (San Pedro, Guatemala; Kecioren, Turkey; Dhol-Ki-Patti, India; Salt Lake City, United States) participated in the study. This paper is based on an analysis of data from a…

Publication year: 2000
Content Type: Academic paper

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation

This book is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an important tool for urban planners, municipal officials, community development staff, non-governmental organizations, educators, youth-serving agencies, youth advocates, and others who are involved in the community development process. It offers…

Publication year: 2002
Content Type: Book

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