Our Advisory Services

Our advisory services help you translate your commitment to child participation into policy and practice. Our aim is to empower you to do more
for children, with children.

We can support you whether you are:

  • An organisation wanting to consult with children to inform the development of a policy, strategy, or program.

  • A government wishing to strengthen child participation in governance, legislation, policy, and action.

  • A company looking to integrate children’s voices into how you do business.

  • An academic institution wanting to engage children in research.

  • An urban planner seeking to consult children in the development of public space.

  • Looking for support on child-friendly governance.

“We want to consult children on a strategy, policy, or service.”

  • If you want to:

    • Consult children on a particular issue in a meaningful, effective, and inclusive manner.

    • Ensure that your strategies, policies, or services are informed by children’s needs and priorities.

    • Organise an event with children that is effective, meaningful, inclusive, and safe.

    • Understand the needs and priorities of under-represented groups of children (for example, younger children and children from vulnerable or marginalised contexts).

    • Strengthen child safeguarding through policies, procedures, and training.

    We offer:

    • A free consultation to help you identify your priorities and next steps.

    • Support on developing concepts or strategies for effective, meaningful, and safe consultations with children and young people.

    • Development of child safeguarding procedures and training adults working with children on how to keep children safe.

    • Implementation of events with children.

    • Development of strategies and methodologies to reach under-represented groups of children.

    • Extensive knowledge of good practices and learning from countries across the globe.

    Book a free consultation

“We want to establish a participatory body, such as a school or youth council.”

  • If you want to:

    • Establish classroom or school councils to ensure that the interests of students are reflected and taken into consideration by the school management.

    • Organise different activities with students.

    • Establish a representative, inclusive, and effective local youth council or a national youth parliament.

    • Strengthen education on child rights, democracy, and democratic participation through direct experience.

    • Strengthen child safeguarding through policies, procedures, and training.

    We offer:

    • A free consultation to help you identify your priorities and next steps.

    • Development of concepts, frameworks, and methodologies for school councils, youth councils, and national youth parliaments.

    • Trainings and other capacity building on child rights and democratic participation.

    • Development of child safeguarding procedures and training adults working with children on how to keep children safe.

    • Extensive knowledge of good practices and learning from countries across the globe.

    Book a free consultation

“We want to build the capacity of our staff to promote child rights and facilitate child and youth participation.”

  • If you want to:

    • Ensure that your staff is trained on child rights and the principles of child-friendly governance.

    • Equip staff working directly with children to facilitate child and youth participation in safe, effective, and inclusive manner.

    • Strengthen child safeguarding through policies, procedures, and training.

    We offer:

    • A free consultation to help you identify priorities and next steps.

    • Training for staff on child rights and establishing and facilitating children and young people’s participation in an inclusive, safe, and meaningful manner.

    • Tailored workshops on child participation for your organisation.

    • Customised information products on child rights and what they mean for your organisation.

    Book a free consultation

“We want to monitor and evaluate the impact of child participation.”

  • If you want to:

    • Track the results of your work and learn from experience.

    • Assess whether your investment in participation is yielding the benefits you had hoped for.

    • Demonstrate the value of child participation.

    We offer:

    • A free consultation to help you identify your monitoring and evaluation priorities.

    • Development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks on child participation, and related theories of change and indicators.

    • Evaluations of your projects and programs, with concrete recommendations for improvement.

    Book a free consultation

Our areas of expertise

Working directly with children and young people

Child rights education and awareness raising

Child-friendly communication and advocacy

Child-friendly legal frameworks, policies, and strategies

Research, monitoring, and evaluation

Capacity building and training

System strengthening and collaboration for children

Child safeguarding

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