Promoting the rights of children with disabilities Inoocenti Digest No. 13
The Innocenti Digest on Promoting the Rights of children with disabilities.
Deinstitutionalisation and community living of children with disabilities
This recommendation aims to promote the deinstitutionalisation of children with disabilities and their life in the community.
Development and testing of an assessment of youth/young adult voice in agency-level advising and decision making
This paper describes the development and validation of the Youth/Young Adult Voice at the Agency Level (Y-VAL), an assessment of the extent to which agencies have implemented best practices for supporting meaningful participation.
Justifying children and young peoples involvement in social research: Assessing Harm and Benefit.
When children and young people’s involvement in research is increasingly the norm, this article reflects on the importance of a well-reasoned and transparent justification for their inclusion or exclusion
Listen to them! The challenge of capturing the true voice of young people within early intervention and prevention models; a youth work perspective
Exploring the challenges to youth work in capturing the voices of young people in a meaningful way within Meitheal and the Child and Family Support Networks model.
National Child Participation Strategy: Building a Caring Society. Together.
This document provides a common framework to guide government and civil society to promote the meaningful participation of children in South Africa.
Promoting the Participation of Seldom Heard Young People: A Review of the Literature on Best Practice Principles
Reviewing the national and international literature on the participation of seldom heard young people and to identify best practice principles in the field.
The Irish National Children’s Strategy: Lessons for promoting the social inclusion of children and young people
This article describes the origins, development and contents of the Irish National Children’s Strategy, noting the links to the wider imperative of social inclusion.
Space, Voice, Audience and Influence: The Lundy Model of Participation (2007) in Child Welfare Practice
The purpose of this article is to share examples of how practitioners working in Ireland’s child protection and welfare services implement these concepts in practice
‘Will you listen? Young voices from conflict zones’ Machel study 10-year strategic review: children and conflict in a changing world
UNICEF was a co-convenor of this 10th-anniversary strategic review of the issues raised in the landmark 1996 Machel study on the impacts of conflict on children, which aims to serve as an advocacy and policy tool on children and armed conflict.