CHILD RIGHTS PROGRAMMING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

ATTENTION: The TC will bring together 26 youth workers from Greece, India, Italy, Kenya, Peru, Senegal and Spain. Participants from India, Kenya, Peru and Senegal are nominated, this call is only to fill free places for participants from Greece (4 participants), Italy (8) and Spain (3). Description The TC will provide training on Child Rights Programming. Through a non-formal, intercultural and creative learning process, the TC will equip participants with knowledge & practical tools to undertake a child rights situation analysis & design community-based projects through child rights-based approach, analytical steps & logical framework planning. In a initial part, participants will analyse rights violations for this target group, the root causes and obstacles preventing the fulfilment of children’s rights. In a final part, participants will be engaged to work together by co-planning and designing projects that responds to children community’s needs. Learning objectives In this frame participants will learn: - about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - how to undertake a “child right based analysis” - how to co-plan & design community-based projects through child rights-based approach, analytical steps & logical framework planning. Methodologies - Non-formal education, peer & cooperative learning - Project Cycle Management (EU Commission). - Forum theatre (A. Boal) - The Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (D. Dolci) - The UNESCO's Four Pillars of Education “Learning to live together, Learning to be, Learning to do, Learning to Know” This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Venue Biblioteca Scarabelli, Caltanissetta, Italy Participants profile - Youth workers who work/volunteer with vulnerable young people and children in community activities – through NGOs, not for profit organizations and associations, schools, self helps groups, national, regional and local bodies, private sectors. - No age limits. - Able to communicate in English. - Willing to act as multiplier in their local communities upon their return home. Each participant should fill the attached participant form and send it back to prism.europe@gmail.com by 25 September the latest.