Children in the driver's seat
"We have identified our problems we know the solutions and also how to get them solved....."
Children conducted a study on their transport and mobility problems and are getting the local governments to implement their plans.
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Report on 'Mainstreaming Informed Participation of Children' Consultation
On 11th December CWC organised a consultation in Bangalore entitled 'Mainstreaming Informed Participation of Children in Governance'. As well as being a consultation exercise the event witnessed the release of two new CWC publications 'Protocol of the Makkala Panchayats in Karnataka' and 'Taking a Right Turn: Children Lead the Way in Research':
Taking a Right Turn: Children Lead the Way in Research
During 2002, children in Kundapur conducted an extensive research on their transport, mobility and access problems. Taking a Right Turn is a research document on the basis of their experience, focusing on why children should do their own research and the methodology of children doing their own research.
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Children as Informed Participants in Governance, a paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Childhood Conference at Singapore in July 2006, argues for the critical need of children managing information. The paper also provides the process and the ethics of children doing their own research.
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Children and Transport- a three country study: A three-country study involving India, Ghana and South Africa, to examine 'Children and transport' issues was commissioned by the DFID - UK and co-ordinated by Durham University. Representatives of children of 3 Panchayats in Kundapur were part of this research study that was co-ordinated in India by the CWC. As a part of this process, the participants conducted a comprehensive survey of availability of roads, condition of roads, access to appropriate footbridges and bridges, existence of streetlights and issues related to transport issues in their village. The results of this survey will be put to extensive use by the children to advocate for infrastructural improvements in their Panchayats.
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Working children
prepare their own report to be presented to the Committee on the Rights
of the Child: CWC facilitated this exercise which involved six
groups of working children from all over India
* Children invited to Geneva meet: India became the first country to have children invited to defend their report on their rights. The trop was the culmination of a three-year exercise by CWC and other NGOs
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