Children’s Rights and Active Participation Training: Making children’s and young people’s participation a reality

North South Projects is provides ad hoc training to raise awareness of children’s rights and active participation. It is available as either a two-hour introductory taster session, or as a stand-alone one- or two-day training workshop.

The 'Children’s rights and active participation training' offers the following learning outcomes:

• Knowledge of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights programming as a framework from which to work
• An understanding of the values, ethos and principles of involving all children and young people
• An understanding of the importance of participation as a process and tool for empowerment
• Development of simple plans of action that can be integrated into participants' ongoing programmes and projects
• Identifying and experiencing fun activities that participants can use with their own clients.

'Children’s rights and active participation training' explores the legislative and theoretical frameworks for the importance of children and young people’s participation. It also explores in more detail children’s participation within particular settings and ways in which the participation agenda can be best moved forward.

The training makes use of a number of interactive exercises and case studies as well as information input sessions. It is constructed around the topics highlighted above, but also aims to cover organisations’ individual training needs.

The training has been developed from working with a number of different audiences, including local authorities and national organisations working with children and young people. It is primarily focused at youth workers, teachers or policy/strategy makers, but can be adapted to meet particular client needs.

For more information, contact:
Duncan Little: [email protected]
Elana Friedman: [email protected]
Website: http://www.northsouthprojects.co.uk