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A participatory movement for child rights

Focus

Empowering children in playing a leading role in their own development.

TargetsChildren from 10 districts of Karnataka state inIndia that are most at risk especially thosewhose fundamental rights are endangered suchas street and working children, school drop outs,children affected or infected with HIV/AIDS,children in conflict with the law and childrenliving in remote rural villages.

THEMEPromote children’s participation, promotion ofchildren’s rights, advocacy actions, support fornetworking and children’s representation informal constituencies where children can raisetheir problems and issues and exercise theircompetencies.

Idea, Objectives and Expected Results • Enhance confidence level of children to work in a team,

address local issues and interaction with local governancebodies and decision makers and thus high level participationof Children is ensured. Also scaling up child participationfrom different experimented models to consolidation• Enhanced capacities and improved levels of confidence of

children and various stakeholders (social workers, parents,community leaders etc.) to involve children and to advocateand demand accessibility of services on a right basedperceptive.• Care and protection of the children at risk through

participatory strategies and structures which can replicate thedesired effects even in future development interventions.

Human Right Education- the USP of the project

Human Right Education (HRE) in 450 schools with areach out of 22500 children is the highlight of theproject.

Training in HRE / CRE has helped the children to learn about humandignity, to respect and love each other, to know their own rights, toknow the rights of others, and to understand social responsibilities.

Child Centred Community Structures and Participatory Approach

Formed Child Right Clubs and Community Vigilantgroups(Task Forces)

These platforms ensured the participation of children in various fronts

High level of child involvement has been planned in all project activities through formation and strengthening of various forums of children and the representation of these forums in the formal constituencies

Close collaboration with government, civil society groups, NGOs and Government schools - KCPCR, Women and Child Welfare Department, Child Line, CWC, MCB

Results and related Programmes

1. Children’s participation and Child Right Promotion•Formation of Child Right Clubs in Schools

•Formation and strengthening of regional and state level networks ofChild Right Clubs

•Human Right Education in schools

•Formation and strengthening of school development and monitoringcommittees with substantial representation of children and theirmeaningful participation;

•Initiation of participatory action research/ research by children.

Results and related Programmes

• Peer education among street children and children living with HIV/AIDS,drug addicted children and children in conflict with the law

• Competency building of children, children’s groups and otherstakeholders of the project through trainings, workshops, campaigns,specialised skill trainings and non formal awareness techniques.

2. Enhance Capacities of children & Other Stake holders

Results and related Programmes 2. Child Care and Protection

•Formation of task forces in villages to prevent child trafficking, school dropouts, child labour etc.; These task force will be a mix of children and adultsfrom the communities

•Children’s campaigns for advocacy and lobbying for 100 % schoolenrolment

•Initiation of Missing Child Search Network to trace out missing children andensure their care and protection and expand it in all the districts forinfluencing policies of child protection

•Initiation and strengthening of Child Line/Child Safety Nets in all the targetdistricts by involving children, community leaders, government officials andcivil society groups

Innovative and result oriented implementation method

Effective methodology for implementation for getting maximum results in each action.

High involvement of children and community has been ensured in all stages, with an aim to reach sustainability at the end of the project.

Follows a typical project management cycle, with phases of identification, planning, implementation, evaluation, scaling up, with learning component at every stage of the cycle.

Innovative and result oriented implementation method

Project Organization

BREADS Team

Project Coordinator(10)

one in each district

Social Activists (50)

Five in each district

Supplimentary education and Bridge school teachers (100)

10 in each district)

HRE Facilitators ( Trained Teachers from

Schools)

Coodinator for Missing Child Search Bureau

Project Directors(10)

one in each district

Online Process Documentation and Disaggregate Data collection

Comprehensive and Effective Monitoring and Evaluation System

Activity

Outputs

Impacts

Knowledge capitalization

Experiential learning

Integration/internalization of success indicators

Assessments

Accumulation


Groups

• CRC, SHG, TFs

Who

• Social Activists

• Tuiton Teachers

• Leaders/members of Grass root level groups

When

• once a week in the initial stage, and twice a month later,Groupmeetings at least once in a month

What

• Assess the progress of each activity and share the experiences of each grass root level organization with clear progress indicaors

How

• through formats that are locally understandable and less time consuming

• Focused Group Discussion

• direct interaction

Community Level

Who

•Project Director

•Project Coordinator

•Social Activists

•Tuiton Teachers

When

•Once in a Month

What

Assesses the progress.Review of the previousmonths activities, planning,and sharing of experiencesof each member of thestaff

revisting of ouputindicators

How

•Presentation

•Group discussion

•Experience sharing

•Brain storming sessions

Community Level

Project Level

Who

•Project Director s

•Project Coordinators

•Executive Director -BREADS

•BREADS

When

•Once in six month Period

What

Assesses the outcomesand impacts. revist theapproaches,capitalization of learning

How

•Presentation

•Group discussion

•Experience sharing

•Brain

Core Team Meeting


The project use two levels of indicators

Progress Indicators

Results Indicators


Some key M & E indicators that are used in the project:

Activity monitoring

(Efficiency indicators – target vs actual,...)

Outputs

Impacts

Quality control

Cost control

Institutions

Effectiveness

Scaling up

Sustainability

Participatory Action Research – learning and fostering tool for participation

Purpose: Capture the outcome of the learning experiences and scale up the same in the future

How : A research hypothesis was developed in a participatory manner, and a facilitator is guiding and facilitating the programs (participation, right based approaches, care and

protection) proposed in the project

Method: The entire process of these programs are documented for further review and analysis.

Who: The children have also actively participate in the implementation of the programs, in documentation and analysis

When: Once in two months the project coordinators and children’s representatives meet together to assess the process and progress of their actions.


Research Question/ Hypothesis identified through participatory processes

Empowered children would play a leading role in their own development and the development of their communities while creating a strong base for their meaningful participation at various forums at local, regional and state levels.


Actions executing and methodologies followed

• The research hypothesis was developed in a participatory manner, and one external expert is guiding andfacilitating the programs (participation, right based approaches, care and protection) proposed in the project

• Created effective forums/structures/platforms ( child right clubs, task forces, ....) to foster genuineparticipation of children and to play pivotal roles to promote their rights

• Facilitate the actions for fostering participation of children in various institutions or groups, such as family,school, leisure groups, vulnerable children , civil society groups, governance with focus on local government,child welfare agencies/departments, etc

• Support children to effectively network, participate and be directly represented in local and regionaldecision-making forums/institutions (SDMC, Gramashaba, community groups ...) impacting upon theirlives and the fulfilment of their rights.

• Foster genuine child leadership among children (leadership and personality development trainings,representation in various forums....) , in strategic development interventions and advocacy actions atlocal, regional and state level.

• Encourage communication through child-led and child participatory communication strategies; includingmedia (Media scan by children, Children’s paper, Children’s Press meet, etc, Children’s CommunityRadio....)

• Data collection and analysis through participatory research methods( FGD, Questionnaire, Interview,Institutional diagram, etc) and discussing it with the group involved in action research process

Collectivisation and pro actions through CREAM Networks (District, Regional and State Level)

Objectives•Participation (Children...)•Collective Actions (Campaigns for Child Rights....)•Advocacy – (Child Friendly Policies....)•Lobbying – (Children’s Budget....)•Child Care (for unaccompanied/vulnerable children....)•Child Protection (trafficking, abuse, etc....)

State level

Regional level

District level

Thank You

Fr. Joy NedumparambilBREADS Bangalore

Government & Nonprofit

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