This workshop report, Adults First was developed by a team in South East Asia and is a great resource for anyone planning to run training on children's participation. Its also a useful reminder that for children's participation to succeed we have to put the training and support of the adults involved FIRST. The structure of the report is set out below - each of the numbers represents an activity conducted in the workshop:
Introduction
1. Understanding childhood
2. Expectation check, objectives and rule setting
Understanding children’s participation
3. Unfair treatment
4. Why involve children?
5. What is a child?
6. Proverbs about children
Defining children's participation
7. What is children’s participation?
8. A working definition of children’s participation
9. The right to participate
10. History of children’s rights and children’s participation
11. Discovery
Ways of involving children
12. Sharing experiences
13. Practice standards in children’s participation
14. What went wrong?
15. Designing workshops for capacity building on children’s participation
Appendices
- Some useful web sites
- Scenarios for some possible additional activities
- Handout on facilitation skills
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