Children participation and design

Child- and Youth-Friendly Participatory Action Research Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help ensure children have the opportunity to participate in the identification and analysis of issues and in the planning and implementation of solutions. It also helps programme staff understand child protection problems/strengths; assess situations; develop and evaluate programmes; develop protection measures, networks, and response mechanisms; and find programmatic gaps.

Publication year: 2010
Content Type: Toolkit

How Crazy Can it Be? An Assessment, Three Years Later, of Outcomes from a Participatory Project with Children in Johannesburg

This paper provides a follow-up, three years later, to a promising initiative by the city of Johannesburg. In 2000, the local authority invited children in four low-income neighborhoods to identify local concerns and to make recommendations, as a contribution to the city’s planning process. The follow-up investigation examined how the city had used the children’s…

Publication year: 2005
Content Type: Academic paper

Children’s Participation: The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care

The book is for planners, educationalists and environmentalists, introducing the theory and the practice of children’s participation, and its importance for developing democracy and sustainable communities. Detailed case studies are provided from urban and rural, poor and middle class communities from both the North and South. For teachers, group facilitators and community leaders, it presents…

Publication year: 1997
Content Type: Book

UN Women’s Global Flagship Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces

UN Women’s Global Flagship Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces develops, implements, and evaluates tools, policies and comprehensive approaches on the prevention of and response to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls across different settings.

Publication year: 2010
Content Type: Other document

Steps to Engaging Young Children in Research. Vol. 1: The Guide

This guide have been developed to support researchers to include young children in research. It does this by providing a six-step process for designing research and through systematically identifying and describing a range of methods that have been used with young children in diverse contexts around the world. For each of the steps guidance is…

Publication year: 2014
Content Type: Toolkit

Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI)

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 to achieve these goals and results. The strategies are related to collecting data & monitoring progress, advocacy & awareness-raising, child-friendly laws & policies, city-wide strategic…

Publication year: 1996
Content Type: Other document

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings

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 psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency. The Guidelines offer essential advice on how to facilitate an integrated approach to address the most…

Publication year: 2007
Content Type: Toolkit

Co-Design with Kids. A Toolkit for Designers

This website presents an approach and design tools for co-design with children aged 8-12. It is initiated by researchers from TU Delft to publish results from the research project ‘Co-design with kids – early acquisition of 21stcentury skills’ (2016-2019). The contents of this website are based upon research. They originate from cases in schools, with…

Content Type: Toolkit

Posttraumatic Play: Towards Acceptance and Resolution

This article examines the issues surrounding childhood trauma and PTP. It uses a case study to illustrate the phases of a play therapy approach that incorporates Ericksonian principles, in order for the child to achieve resolution and acceptance. The countertransference issues that a clinician may encounter also are discussed.

Publication year: 2007
Content Type: Academic paper

The Techniques of Participatory Design for Inclusive Public Space Provision in Kampung Kota of Surakarta

The technique of participatory design is essential for the future development knowledge of architecture to inform the improvement of architectural education and practice in Asia. Therefore to provide of inclusive public spaces for the community, this research article presents a field study of the usage of community participation design method in design and planning to…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Academic paper

Steps to Engaging Young Children in Research. Vol. 2: The Researcher Toolkit

The Researcher Toolkit encourages researchers planning to work with young children to consider not only the types of methods needed to answer different research questions, but also the context in which the methods are to be applied and the skills that will be required to use them. A collection of methods provides a number of…

Publication year: 2014
Content Type: Toolkit

Child Rights Toolkit. Module 3: Child Participation

By providing practical guidance on how to take a rights-based, child-focused approach, this toolkit aims to ensure that children’s rights as well as initiatives to promote the well-being of all children can be effectively integrated and applied across programmes of bilateral and multilateral development assistance. This toolkit has been developed primarily for development professionals working…

Publication year: 2015
Content Type: Toolkit

Interventions for Children Affected by Armed Conflict: A Systematic Review of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Over one billion children under the age of 18 live in countries affected by armed conflict. This systematic review replicates an earlier study, aiming to provide a comprehensive update of the most current developments in interventions for children affected by armed conflict. Although the number of publications and level of evidence has improved since the…

Publication year: 2016
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

Practical Toolkit on Children’s Participation

This toolkit provides practical tools on how to implement children’s participation in: 1) research, 2) programming, 3) advocacy, 4) communications, and 5) fundraising.

Content Type: Toolkit

The State of the World’s Children 2003

The State of the World’s Children 2003 reports on child participation – the ‘right’ of every child at every age, the responsibility of governments, organizations and families, and a way to promote tolerance, respect for human rights, an appreciation of diversity and peace. The report showcases examples from every region of the world of how…

Publication year: 2003
Content Type: Report

Childhood Interrupted: Children’s Voices from the Rohingya Crisis

The study was conducted with 200 children (60 from host community and 140 from Rohingya Refugee community) and 40 mothers (10 from host community and 30 refugees) in Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) to gain insight into their daily lives and to listen to what children wanted others to know about. Questions did not revolve around Rohingya…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Involving Children in Decision Making

The aim of this guide is to provide organisations with guidelines and associated practical activities to involve children under the age of 12 years in decision making within their services. This kit contains information for effective participation for service organisations and government agencies as well as practical ideas that organisations can apply to their services…

Publication year: 2015
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

Practice Standards in Children’s Participation

The report provides a framework and operational guidelines for field workers who want to support children’s participation. The seven standards discussed are: An ethical approach – transparency, honesty and accountability; Children’s participation is relevant and voluntary; A child-friendly, enabling environment; Equality of opportunity; Staff are effective and confident; Participation promotes the safety and protection of…

Publication year: 2005
Content Type: Report

Diseño Participativo de Espacios Públicos con Perspectiva de Infancia

This document presents the value of participatory methodologies to integrate girls, boys and adolescents’ knowledge and perceptions, as an input for the design of urban public spaces. The experience of the Sustainable Urban Development Centre (CEDEUS) in Villa Marta Brunet (Puente Alto, Santiago, Chile) as a case.

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Toolkit

The Children of Kabul – Discussions with Afghan Families

The study explores three main topics : well-being goals for Afghan children; the threats children face in achieving well-being; and the coping resources children already have for dealing with their difficulties.The findings of the research are relevant for all who seek to provide assistance to Afghan children – and war-affected children worldwide – as they…

Publication year: 2003
Content Type: Report

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. This manual helps facilitate dialogue and an exchange of ideas between the organisation’s staff and the adults and children involved. The training programme also allows to train a team of the staff, adults…

Publication year: 2013
Content Type: Toolkit

Landscape as Playscape: The Effects of Natural Environments on Children’s Play and Motor Development

This study investigated the impacts of playing in a natural environment on motor development in children. A quasi-experimental study was conducted on five-, six-, and seven-year old children with an experimental group playing in a natural environment and a control group playing in a more traditional playground. When provided with a natural landscape in which…

Publication year: 2004
Content Type: Academic paper

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