This toolkit is designed to support National Societies to enhance their ability to engage children in safe and meaningful ways to improve the relevance, quality, and effectiveness of programming.

Engaging with children who National Societies serve is a basic requirement for effective and relevant needs based programming. This is highlighted in the IFRC Youth Policy and Protection, Gender and Inclusion Policy. This is further underlined by inter-agency minimum standards such as the Core Humanitarian Standards, the Child Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action, and the Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards.

This toolkit provides guidance on running consultation processes for and with children to ensure their meaningful participation starting with consultation as a first step towards comprehensive decision making in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of child sensitive interventions.

When can I use this toolkit?

This toolkit can be used in any phase or type of National Society programming involving children.

Who is this tool for?

This toolkit is designed for anyone in a National Society who is assessing, designing, implementing, or monitoring and evaluating programming that involves children.