Many interesting interventions on children's participation have been tried and tested with considerable amount of success in the South and Central Asia region. While there is scope for improvement, up-scaling and decentralisation of these initiatives, there are some critical shortcomings in the knowledge and practice. For instance, in the South and Central Asian region, there is little focus on children's participation within families. But there is growing realisation that in order to fulfil children's rights, one needs to look within the household and identify and support good values for enabling children's participation. It could be the key to addressing issues of discrimination, abuse and exploitation within families. Save the Children Sweden and Denmark in South and Central Asia is undertaking a study on children's participation in the family that could assist in programming for children's rights. An initial discussion paper is being developed to increase learning on several aspects: how girls and boys participate in the family in various contexts; how age, gender, ability and other such factors, affect their participatory potential; and an analysis of the bottlenecks for children's participation such as patriarchy, punishment, violence and abuse. A short desk-based research is being conducted to produce a discussion paper, which will be used to generate discussion towards improving understanding of the intra-family dynamics, familiarising a wider audience about children's participation in families and developing more ideas for meaningful field interventions. Experiences, insights and references on children's participation in families in general and from South and Central Asia region in particular are requested. Individuals and organisations who have any information and ideas, please contact: Neelam Singh by email: singh_neelam@yahoo.com or neelam@vsnl.com.[CRIN]