Educo
Educo is an NGO, a member of ChildFund Alliance, one of the leading international coalitions of NGOs focusing on child protection, working in more than 18 countries for over 30 years for the well-being and rights of children, especially the right to receive a quality education. Within its project Activate the Listening, Educo has conducted multiple projects funded by the Ministry related to the promotion of child and adolescent participation. These include:
Project From Audience to Influence
The project From Audience to Influence, a necessary step to make effective the participation of children in the defense of their rights, within which was carried out:
The guide How to count on the voice of children and adolescents in decision-making, aimed at adult decision-makers and carried out with the collaboration of the “Listening Council” formed by boys and girls spokespersons of their participation groups in educational centers.
A video in which boys and girls of the Listening Council meet with institutional representatives to convey their ideas, proposals, and concerns about how they believe decision-makers should listen to them and consider them more in matters that affect them.
The infographic How to influence the policy decisions that affect you, aimed at boys and girls, and designed based on ideas and proposals from the “Listening Council.” It includes advice, ideas, and proposals for boys and girls to want to, know how to, and be able to approach public administrations to demand their rights. Project Why Don’t We Do Something Together?
The project Why Don’t We Do Something Together? where boys and girls, accompanied by their teachers and Educo's technical team, have created a board game that puts active listening at the center of the debate as a right and a tool for social transformation, as can be their school and family environment, being them who tell it.
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe in addition to offering various guides and manuals on child and adolescent participation, has a website in English with videos and downloadable material on participation.
Application Guide for the Child Participation Assessment Tool. Children's participation is their right to be listened to and taken seriously.
IMCITIZEN
IMCITIZEN brings together different socio-educational agents with experience in child and adolescent participation in schools and at the local and regional level in Spain. Composed of 10 child platforms that have been established to promote children's rights, create child participation platforms, and advance strategies to increase children's decision-making. The IMCITIZEN project, funded by the EU's CERV-2022-CHILD program, fosters the identity of democratic citizenship of girls and boys as active and committed members.
On their website there is, among multiple resources, the book WE PARTICIPATE, we take action! resulting from the collective work with children from various schools who have participated in the co-design of Child Participation Platforms as active and committed citizens. It contains practical tools to facilitate this process, with resources explained by the same protagonists.
There is also the Children's Citizen Participation Plan. Guide developed by children. This guide offers strategies and concrete actions to strengthen children's participation in decision-making in their municipalities. The Strategic Plan has been designed by the participation platforms of each municipality, with the support, in some cases, of the municipal councils. Furthermore, it includes ten strategies agreed upon by representatives of the 10 IMCITIZEN participation platforms. The guide is the result of the work of 140 children, who have been the protagonists of this process.
In addition, they have created two posters, one to defend the keys for dialogue between children and adults, with the fundamental keys to ensure fair and equitable dialogues in child participation spaces, and another explaining 10 strategies to participate more and better in municipalities. These are strategies developed by the children from the platforms that will allow for spaces where boys and girls are active participants in decision-making.
SOS Children's Villages
SOS Children's Villages International NGO has carried out the TOGETHER project, co-financed by the European Union, which is being implemented in Spain (Community of Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha), Bulgaria, Hungary, and Italy.
This project strengthens the participation of children and youth in public decision-making, empowering vulnerable children and youth to make recommendations that ensure their needs and concerns are considered in the decision-making processes of the European Union and Spain. Through this project, awareness and training actions are directed at professionals working for children and authorities responsible for policies and laws affecting child protection.
Automatically translated with OpenAI from Spanish