Toolkits & Guidance
Practical resources to help you to give children and young people a voice on issues that affect their lives, as well as guidance to help you to create youth-friendly versions of your work.
Toolkits
Seldom Heard Toolkit
A manual for practitioners on how to include ‘seldom-heard’ children and
young people in organisations and events.
Author: Olivia McEvoy
• 15 min read
Toolkits
Comhairle na nÓg Toolkit (2nd Edition)
The Toolkit has been developed to support the work of those who organise and run the 31 Comhairlí na nÓg throughout the country.
Author: DCEDIY (formerly DCYA)
• 5 min read
Guidelines
How to Write a Child-friendly Document
A guide to advancing children’s rights, and develop or guide the development of child-friendly information.
Author: Save the Children
• 15 min read
Toolkits
The Nine Basic Requirements for Meaningful and Ethical Children’s Participation
Serves to ensure quality child participation in ‘all processes in which a child or children are heard and participate’.
Author: Save the Children
• 15 min read
Guidance
The Rights of Child Human Rights Defenders – Implementation Guide
This Implementation Guide aims to complement the existing commentary and advice on HRDs by articulating the rights of CHRDs and identifying what is distinctive about children’s rights.
Author: Professor Laura Lundy
• 15 min read
Toolkits
We Are Here: A Child Participation Toolbox
Developed through a partnership between Eurochild and the Learning for Well-being Foundation.
Author: Bird, Hagger-Vaughan, Pinto, O’Toole, Ros-Steinsdottir, Schuurman
• 15 min read