Inclusive Child Participation Networks

ongoing

The Inclusive Child Participation Networks project will bolster systemic and inclusive child participation initially in 11 European countries by working on 3 specific objectives: 1. strengthening, innovating and mainstreaming child participation in national and local level decision making and in EU policy making; 2. empowering children, with a focus on children who are most at risk of exclusion and less represented, to actively participate in decision making processes at all levels and 3. strengthening the capacity of national, regional and local authorities, and of child participation mechanisms to make child participation inclusive and systemic. The European Network on Inclusive Child Participation, whose activities will be co-designed and co-implemented with a child group, will bring together the local and national coordinated initiatives on child participation and leverage these efforts towards the EU level and in connection with the EU Children’s Participation Platform. Mirrored actions will be implemented at local, national and European level, such as: coordination activities, Competence Centres on Inclusive, Meaningful and Safe Child Participation, learning opportunities, child-led groups to co-design and co-implement activities of the project, pilot activities enacting a full participation process and awareness raising campaigns. The consortium, led by Save the Children Italy, is formed out of 18 partners. 5 organisations are working at European level: Save the Children Europe and SOS Children’s Villages International, together with the inclusion partners of the project: Plan International Belgium, the European Roma Grasroots Organisations – ERGO Network and the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Youth & Student Organisation. Working at national level, the consortium is composed of 9 Save the Children organizations (IT, FI, LT, NL, ES, AL, PL, RO and DK) and 4 SOS Children’s Villages organizations (IT, FI, GR and BG).