Building a Shared Understanding of Adolescent Participation in Decision-Making in East Asia Pacific - A Curriculum Building on UNICEF’s Engaged and Heard! Guidelines on Adolescent Participation and Civic Engagement

Description

A series of Training Modules to promote meaningful adolescent participation in decision making

Date
List people or organisations involved in producing the resource

Aflatoun, International Institute for Child Rights and Development, UNICEF EAPRO, UNICEF Thailand

Purpose
Theory to Practice (models and frameworks)
Building Participatory Environments
Collective Participation
Age range of target people
9-12 years
13-15 years
16-18 years
19-25 years
26-35 years
Characteristics of children and groups
All children
Care experience
Living in poverty
Living with violence
Living rurally
Living in a city
Contact with the criminal justice system
Young carers
Refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants
Ethnic, religious, linguistic minorities
LGBTQI+
Roma, Sinti, Travellers
Persons with disabilities
Boys
Girls
Modes of participation
Consultative
Collaborative
Child-led
Phases in cycle of participation
Planning
Connecting with Children
Identifying Issues and Priorities
Taking Action
Skills trained
Facilitation and Training
Organising
Profile of target group
Educators (e.g. teachers)
Social Workers
Municipality Staff
Local Authorities (Policy-makers; Decision-makers)
Type of resource
electronic publication (PDF)
Target group's degree of knowledge
Beginner