PLA 25: Special Issue on Children's Participation
The special theme section of this issue of PLA on a workshop about child-focused programming and the use of participatory techniques for research with children.
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February 1996
Guest Editor: Victoria Johnson
The workshop was held at the Institute of Development Studies in September 1995. The aim of the workshop was to share experiences between people working on child-focused programming. Groups discussed conditions for success and ethical issues; positive and negative experiences of the use of participatory techniques with children; power relations and links with adult power; and how participatory techniques with children fit in with other programme objectives and processes. The issues arising from these group discussions are summarised in the overview paper, while the articles are drawn from experiences offered by workshop participants and invitees.
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Contents
Sharing experiences of participation in Latin America: a workshop report
Costanza de Toma
PRA for risk reduction: lessons from Mozambique
Ailsa Holloway and Diane Lindsey
Retrospective community mapping: a tool for community education
Wilbert Z. Sadomba
Revealing gender differences through well-being ranking in Uganda
Janet Seeley, Januario Nabaitu, Lorraine Taylor, Ellen Kajura, Tanance Bukenya, Elizabeth Kabunga and Fatuma Sembajja
Stumbling towards gender-aware PRA training in Indonesia
Judith Dent
Staff perceptions of the impact of PRA on MYRADA's Work
Robert Leurs
Facilitating PRA amidst war: experiences from Sierra Leone
Ann C. Hudock
Children’s participation
Introduction: starting a dialogue on children's participation
Victoria Johnson
Children's rights and the changing face of work in the field
Brian Milne
Children as special citizens
Louise Chawla and Anne Trine Kjørholt
Institutionalising children's participation in development
Michael Edwards
Action research with street children: a role for street educators
Olga Nieuwenhuys
PRA with street children in Nepal
Rachel Baker
Participatory interactions with children in Nepal
Pashupati Sapkota and Junita Sharma
Whither children's hour? An experimental PRA among labouring rural children
N. Narayanasamy, B. R. Dwaraki, B. Tamilmani and R. Ramesh
Children and participatory appraisals: experiences from Vietnam
Joachim Theis
Young people, participatory research and experiences of leaving care
Andrew West
Teenage facilitators: barriers to improving adolescent sexual health
Tilly Sellers and Martin Westerby
The process of empowerment: lessons from the work of Peace Child International
David Woolcombe