Adults Show Others How To...
This section includes tools and handbooks to help adults better support and facilitate child organized groups. The Spider Tool is excellent for monitoring and evaluation while the Child Labour to Children in Charge Handbook will walk adults through key issues facing their work alongside children, particularly working children. Want to get some advice on how to start a club? Head to the Playing and Protecting Resource. Are you a young person who wants to start a group specifically for youth? The Youth-Led Organizations and SRHR resource will give you some great advice and key ideas to be thinking about. Adults, the Guiding Principles document will highlight critical points in your role as supporter, facilitator, and ally. We hope these will be of great use to you. If you know of any other resources that would be great to add to this section, please let us know on the Contribute page!
You will also realize, there are not any documents written specifically for children, or by children. This is a gap The Article 15 Project looks forward to filling.
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The Spider Tool
The Spider Tool is an tool designed to help children and young people assess their own initiatives and organizations. It has been adapted and developed by Claire Feinstein and Claire O’Kane with Save the Children (2005). The Spider Tool is one of the few tools we have found to be highly effective in monitoring and evaluating child-led groups in a participatory way. It is very child and youth friendly, and can be adapted for any culture. -
A Kit of Tools
(1M)This is a Kit of Tools for participatory research and evaluation with children, young people, and adults. It is a compilation of tools used during Save the Children Norway's thematic evaluation and documentation on children's participation in armed conflict. These tools can be used with children, young people, and adults working in any context. It is an extremely helpful resource! -
From Child Labour to Children in Charge
(8M)From Child Labour to Children in Charge is an excellent resource for adults working alongside children's organized groups, with an emphasis on working children's groups. The handbook is designed to be used in sections, printed and placed in to a binder to allow for adding and/or revising based on your specific context. It has excellent examples of how children engage in advocacy. It also provides a step-by-step example of how children started their own savings bank, the only publication to address children handling their own money in such an explicit way. -
Guiding Principles for Facilitating Children's Organizations
(43K)Save the Children compiled a list of guiding principles for facilitators of children's organized groups. These are excellent and every facilitator should operate from such a base. -
Playing & Protecting: Learning from Children's Clubs in Sierra Leone
(1.2M)Playing and Protecting speaks to the amazing way child organized groups can empower and change the lives of children affected by war and violence. This document highlights steps one could take to begin a children's club. There are unique contextual factors to the clubs of Sierra Leone, but this highlights and give example to the unique ways adults in the community are used to be allies, negotiators, and supporters of children and their rights. Pay attention to the structures in place for adults in the communities where these clubs exist! -
Using Participatory Methods to Further the Democratic Goals of Children’s Orgs
(471K)Using Participatory Methods to Further the Democratic Goals of Children’s Organizations (Hart, R. & Rajbhandary, J. 2003) details the work done by both Hart and Rajbhandary with children's clubs in Nepal. It highlights the participatory methods and tools they used to help these children reflect upon the structures of their own organizations. -
Youth-Led Organizations and SRHR
(2.1M)This document was written by youth (15-29) working in the field of Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights. While written with an issue focus, many of the principles presented can be translated to any group. This document addresses many day-to-day management issues and has a great section on various decision-making structures.