Date: 20-24 June 2005
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Context, International Co-operation is organising a five-day participatory workshop
- "Child Centred Community Development: Participation of Children in Crisis" - in
partnership with IREWOC (University of Amsterdam), Plan Netherlands and Save the
Children Netherlands, in which child-centred development organisations can share
their experiences, identify 'good practices' and acquire new inspiration.

The international community made a collective commitment in the Millennium
Declaration 2000 to free the world from poverty and to ensure people's right to
development. Six of the eight Millennium Development Goals, refer directly to
children's rights to health, education, and equality. Child Centred Community
Development (CCCD) - with a focus on child participation - will be one of the key
components contributing to a successful fulfilment of the MDGs by the year 2015.
According to the CCCD approach, children are more than victims needing protection;
they are also active partners in development processes. Child participation could
provide a framework to enable children to claim their rights and let their voices be
heard.

The overall aim of the workshop is to contribute to further enhancement of policies,
guiding principles and tools for child participation within development
organisations dealing with children in crisis. The workshop focuses on both
conceptual and operational aspects in order to: enhance conceptual understanding of
child participation and identify 'good practices' with regard to different aspects
of child participation at both policy and operational level; contribute to an
application of these practices within the participants' own context; equip
participants with the skills to design and implement a monitoring and evaluation
system to measure the outcome of child participation.

The workshop will be organised according to the principles of Participatory Learning
and Action (PLA): knowledge sharing by the participants, knowledge transfer by
resource persons and knowledge application (case work) will be the core of the
workshop. The focus is furthermore on gathering available knowledge and creating a
'community of practice-workshop' in order to link actors from the development
practice with each other and stimulate information exchange between the
'development' and the 'academic' world.

For more information, contact:
Institute for Research on Working Children (IREWOC)
Cruquiusweg 68-70, 1019AH Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tel: + 31 (0)20 465 17 63
Email: irewoc@childlabour.net
Website: http://www.childlabour.net
 
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