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Launch of two reports for children and adults from the Cote d'Ivoire child participation in education meeti
23 Dec 2008 12:31:20 GMT
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Thirty five participants representing various Save the Children offices came together for a ‘Capacity building workshop facilitating Participation of Boys and Girls from a Rights based approach in Education for Save the Children in Africa and MENA’ from 23-27 September 2008 at Côte d’Ivoire.

The workshop represented Save the Children’s commitment to take forward the movement on child participation in education in Africa and MENA regions. The workshop attempted to create an understanding of children’s right to ethical and meaningful participation and its implications for proper planning, implementation, methods used and particularly, advocacy within education programmes.

During the workshop, participants were able to internalise the concepts and main components of a rights based approach. The UNCRC, its articles and principles were linked with the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), which was highlighted as an effective instrument for advocacy for children’s rights in Africa. Using the rights based approach as a base, participants were helped to understand how to integrate child participation within all steps of the programme cycle. Special emphasis was placed upon evaluation, learning and feedback within the programme cycle, and children’s participation within it.

Participants left with a common understanding that child participation is a concept that needs to be internalised. It is an ideology that needs to be followed within our own personal lives as well. Moreover, very often, understanding meaningful and ethical child participation is more about unlearning what we think we know about children, than learning new concepts. There are no models of child participation, but only good practices. We may not be always able to recreate them, but we can replicate or adapt their principles based on our varying contexts.

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PDF fileCapacity Building Workshop facilitating the participation of boys and girls from a rights based approach in education [Adobe PDF, 1154 Kb]
PDF fileDiscovering Each Other Save the Children meet with school children in Cote d'Ivoire to talk about education [Adobe PDF, 665 Kb]

 

 

 

 


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