Children’s Participation in the Analysis, Planning and Design of Programmes

Save the Children’s child rights programming approach uses the principles of children’s rights to plan, implement and monitor programmes, with the overall goal of improving children’s social position so that all boys and girls can fully enjoy their rights and live in societies that acknowledge and respect their rights. Children’s participation in programming fits well within the ‘voice’ element of our ‘Theory of Change’. Children and young people (especially the most marginalised) should be provided with genuine opportunities to inform and influence every stage of the cycle in programmes that concern them and that are relevant to their lives, that is: assessments, analysis, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation