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Summary: This document is the product of a
literature review, fieldwork in India,
Kenya and Ecuador and discussion
with various practitioners and
academics working on children's
participation.
This document examines current approaches to the evaluation of
children’s participation in development. Its principal focus is on
children's participation in local level activities, both child-led
initiatives as well as community development processes involving
adults and children together.
It has been undertaken as a starting point for field-based
research focussed on the identification of viable quality standards
for organisations implementing participatory projects and a
conceptual and practical framework for the monitoring and
evaluation of such projects. The discussion is based on a review
of existing organisational and academic literature on child
participation across the globe, and is supplemented by interview
testimonies from scholars and development workers with
particular experience in this area.1
The motivation for this review and research lay in a one-day
seminar Plan UK hosted for the UK development community
in ‘Children’s Participation in Development – Challenges and
Ways Forward’ in March 2003. A clear need for further thought
about the evaluation of participatory projects, was identified by
participants in this seminar.2 The results of the research study,
along with those of this review, will be discussed at a second
conference on children’s participation in November 2003.Owner: Lisanne ACKERMANN, Thomas FEENY, Jason HART & Jesse NEWMANpdf: www.plan-uk.org/pdfs/literaturereview.pdf