GLOBAL: Toolkit for Creating a Step Change in Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation

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The toolkit has been developed to support practical implementation of the Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation. The Framework is intended for use by practitioners and children and young people working in participatory programmes, as well as by governments, NGOs, civil society or children’s organisations seeking to assess and strengthen the extent, quality and impact of participation by children and young people in decision-making within society.

The Framework is intended to be useful for monitoring and evaluation of a variety of children’s participation processes.

The Framework is divided into two discrete but linked parts. Part one, which is optional by organisations involved in the pilot, focuses on measuring the extent to which the environment at the national and local level is conducive to respect for children’s right to participate. Some tools are included to help map whether the necessary legislative, policy, social and cultural changes have been made to support children’s right to participate. Part two is concerned with measuring the scope, quality and outcomes associated with specific participation processes or initiatives. This toolkit especially helps organisations to prepare for and to meaningfully involve children and young people in implementing pilots using part two of the Framework.

The Framework will be piloted by 13 initiatives in different regions of the world over an 18 month period from September 2011. This process is being supported by a planning group comprising a number of international and national NGOs[1]. The initiatives are address a broad range of different programmes, practices, objectives, age groups, and children’s experiences, with a strong focus on child protection. The toolkit emphasises the importance of actively involving children and young people in monitoring and evaluation processes. It highlights the importance of children and other stakeholders determining from the outset the most relevant indicators or objectives concerning the programme that they are involved in so that the matrices can be adapted and made more relevant to their specific contexts.  It provides guidance on how to collect, organise and analyse the data, together with suggested participatory tools that are relevant to the matrices in the Framework. The piloting will help determine the effectiveness of the Framework and tools, and will help strengthen them. Each NGO involved should also benefit by identifying and building upon lessons learned from monitoring and evaluating children’s participation. 

In strengthening the Framework and toolkit for use by a range of agencies, including child managed organisations, NGOs, INGOs, UN agencies and Governments we can significantly contribute to building a body of evidence associated with promoting and respecting children’s right to express their views and be taken seriously.

[1] Africa Movement of Working Children and Youth, Centro de Servicios Educativos en Salud y Medio Ambiente (CESEMA), Neighbourhood Community Network, Plan International in Guatemala, Plan Regional Office in West Africa, Save the Children in Nepal, Save the Children in Vietnam, The Concerned for Working Children,  World Vision Ghana, World Vision Zambia, Save the Children Cambodia, World Vision Burundi and Save the Children Somaliland.

 

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