The Legend

For decades, children have been meek victims and passive recipients of adult benevolence. This is changing because it has become clear that most programmes and policies concerning children that have been formulated without their participation have either been ineffective or in many cases even detrimental to them. Since the ratification of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), It has been universally recognised that principles of the CRC should become integral to the programming of all interventions related to children.

About Dhruva

Dhruva was set up precisely to meet the challenges facing society in the translation of these principles into action that are integrated into every aspect of a project and intervention that involved or made an impact on children.

It is committed to children’s participation and the realisation of their rights and enables organisations and persons concerned with children’s participation, protagonism, governance and related issues to perform their roles in a child friendly manner through training and consultancy in those areas of expertise.

Based on extensive experience in several countries of the world and that of the Concerned for Working Children’s field work for more than a decade and other successful examples in the area of children’s participation, protagonism and governance, Dhruva offers a variety of services:

Consultancy to enable organisations and corporates to develop child rights centred policies, strategies, programming and mechanisms for social audits.
Training that enables those working with children and children themselves to enhance their skills and knowledge base to make the principles of the CRC a living reality.

Dhruva's Vision

A world where there are are organisations of adults and children who are committed and able to ensure children’s participation and the realisation of their rights.

Dhruva's Mission

To enable children, especially the marginalised to realise all their rights with a particular focus on the core principles of the CRC; namely ‘the best interest of the child’, ‘the Right to be heard’, ‘the Right to organise’ and ‘the Right to appropriate information’.
To develop the capacity of those working with children to empower children to realise their rights.
To understand the principles that underline ‘best practice’ in child centred and child rights friendly programming.
To assist corporate bodies to develop policies, positions and action plans to address issues such as child labour and education.
To enable corporate and NGO managers to identify indicators and design mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating interventions designed for children and to measure children’s participation.
To assist the design and development of child centred and child rights friendly social audits.
To increase the organisational capacity of NGOs, Agencies and Organisations so that they may be better equipped to design rights based programmes and strategies wherein children’s participation is integral to all aspects including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
To enable service providers of children to be more child friendly and to nurture children’s realisation of their rights.