Participation and inclusion

This module provides practical information, guidelines, inspiring case studies and participatory tools to support organisations and key adult actors to engage with children as rights holders and social actors, supporting their participation in decision-making processes, which affect them and their communities. Guidance is provided to support the development of meaningful, ethical, sustainable, and inclusive participation of children (of different ages and backgrounds) in project, programme and policy responses and service delivery during different phases of an emergency, from preparedness, early, intermediate, and post emergency responses to longer-term development.

Building genuine partnerships between adults and children (and among children themselves) is a particular focus of this module as a means of transforming power relationships and creating the space for all children to interact and intervene in different levels of decision-making structures, systems and processes that are accessible and responsive to them.

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Section	1	Defining and justifying children's participation and inclusion
Exercise	1	Ball exercise
Exercise	2	Children's participation balloon
Exercise	3	Adult roles and levels of children's participation
Exercise	4	Discrimination analysis
Exercise	5	Timeline of a day in a child's life
Exercise	6	Power ball
Handout	1	Reasons to promote children's participation in emergencies
Handout	2	Balloon picture
Handout	3	Definitions of children's participation and inclusion
Handout	4	Dealing with objections and obstacles
Handout	5	Reddy and Ratna's ladder of participation
Section	2	Children's rights to participation and inclusion
Exercise	1	Identifying children's participation rights and their relevance to emergencies
Exercise	2	Children's participation rights
Exercise	3	Supporting adult-child partnerships
Handout	1	The essence of CRC articles relevant to children's participation rights
Handout	2	Case studies
Handout	3	Roles for Part A
Handout	4	Roles for Part B
Section	3	Children's participation practice standards
Exercise	1	Introducing practice standards in children's participation
Exercise	2	Risk assessment
Exercise	3	Developing child-friendly information
Handout	1	The practice standards in summary
Handout	2	Practice standard scoring and action-planning table
Handout	3	Assessing risks with children, Afghanistan
Handout	4	Risk assessment worksheet
Handout	5	Actions taken to reduce risks, Afghanistan
Handout	6	How to produce child-friendly documents
Section	4	Building capacity for children's participation
Exercise	1	Developing an ideal facilitator
Exercise	2	Interviewing children
Exercise	3	Identifying cultural forms of expression
Exercise	4	Promoting inclusion of younger children and children with disabilities
Exercise	5	Paper chain game
Exercise	6	Child-led organisations and adult-child partnerships
Exercise	7	Diamond ranking
Handout	1	Role-play scenarios and checklist for observers
Handout	2	Case studies
Handout	3	Case studies
Section	5	Involving children in situation analysis
Exercise	1	Preparing for effective children's participation in situation analysis
Exercise	2	Risk mapping
Exercise	3	Body mapping
Exercise	4	Introducing participatory tools for working with children
Exercise	5	Problem tree analysis
Exercise	6	Circle of influence
Exercise	7	Capacity analysis
Exercise	8	Transect walk
Exercise	9	How? How? How?
Handout	1	Key guidelines to ensure good practice
Handout	2	Capacity analysis table
Section	6	Children's participation in emergency preparedness and response
Exercise	1	Children's participation in prevention and/or service delivery
Exercise	2	Steps in child-led disaster risk reduction (CL-DRR)
Exercise	3	Visioning and next steps
Handout	1	Case studies
Section	7	Monitoring and evaluating children's participation
Exercise	1	Why? Why? Why? Should we involve children in monitoring and evaluation?
Exercise	2	Introducing a framework and matrix exercises for measuring children's participation
Exercise	3	Participatory monitoring tools for use with and by children
Exercise	4	Timeline
Exercise	5	H assessment
Exercise	6	Circle analysis of inclusion and exclusion
Exercise	7	Before-and-after body map
Exercise	8	Introducing the spider tool
Handout	1	Why children's participation processes and impact should be monitored and evaluated with and by children
Handout	2	Exploring scope
Handout	3	Exploring quality
Handout	4	Exploring impact
Handout	5	Key quality elements of child-led organisations and initiatives
Handout	6	Example of spider diagram