The Child Friendly Community Assessment Tools enable children, caregivers and community service providers to assess the degree of fulfillment of child rights by involving them in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data about living conditions for children.
The governance tool enables local authorities to look critically and comprehensively at the governance structures and processes in place for children and their families. The key features of this research include: a) a participatory methodology with easily adaptable tools for the involvement of children, parents and a community service providers; b) collection of data that can be useful for bottom-up planning and advocacy by a community; d) collection of data based on a set of common indicators of child friendliness that that can be made available by many communities to municipal governments for city-wide mapping of conditions for children for improved planning and service provision; and d) the promotion of awareness raising on child rights.
The research initiative has been enriched through the input and technical assistance of a Consultative group of experts. The first meeting of the group, held in The Hague in November 2008, provided a critical review of existing CFC assessment and monitoring approaches and identified key elements for the project’s self-assessment tools.
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Download the summary of the project, including the outcomes of the Hague workshop.
A research workshop was held in Rome in November 2009 to review the research methodology and the assessment tools as well as to enable an exchanges of CFC initiatives in the countries participating in the research.
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Download the concept note of the CFC Research Initiative.
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Download the workshop report and a summary/overview of the report.
A replica of the workshop was held for a selected sample of interested MENA countries in Amman in January 2010.
To complete and enrich the research process, a workshop was held in Florence, Italy, in conjunction with the Child in the City Conference in October, 2010.
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Download the workshop report
2010: A Childwatch Advisory Board Meeting was arranged in Florence to critically review the CFC Research Initiative and make Proposals for Future Research.
Documentation
A brief about the Child Friendly Cities Research Initiative (updated September 2010) can found here.
Download the summary of the Project, including the outcomes of the Hague workshop (updated January 2009).
Concept note on the Child Friendly Cities and Communities project (updated September 2008)
The Philippine Pilot Study of the Child Friendly Community Participatory Assessment Tools
Research toolkit to assess a set of child rights indicators for communities and cities at the local governance level:
APPLICATION OF THE METHODOLOGY and CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICIPATORY SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOLS