Publications

Table of Contents

• Child Participation
• War-affected Children
• Child Labour
• Sexually Exploited Children

Child Participation

• Lessons Learned from Children and Youth Participation in Development
• RBM and Children's Participation: A Guide to Incorporating Child Participation Results into CIDA Programs
• Meaningful Youth Participation in International Conferences: A Case Study of the International Conference on War-Affected Children (Gail Cockburn, CIDA, 2001) (PDF version, 60 pages, 1.43 MB)
• Results Based Management and Child Participation: A Guide to Incorporating Child Participation Results into CIDA Programs (Child Protection Unit, Policy Branch, CIDA, 2003) (PDF version, 41 pages, 2 MB)
• A Kind of Friendship: Working for and with War Affected Children and Youth: A Resource Manual for Programmers (Produced by the Children as Peacebuilders Project (CAP) an interagency project sponsored by DCI-Canada and funded by CIDA, 2003) (PDF version, 166 pages, 1.7 MB)
• Children's Participation in Humanitarian Action: Learning from Zones of Armed Conflict (Prepared for CIDA by Jason Hart Ph.D., Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, 2004) (PDF version, 34 pages, 353 KB)
• Participation of Conflict-affected Children in Humanitarian Action: Learning from the Occupied Palestinian Territories> (Jason Hart Ph.D for CIDA, September 2002) (PDF version, 38 pages, 441 KB)
• Participation of Conflict-affected Children in Humanitarian Action: Learning from Eastern Sri Lanka (Jason Hart Ph.D for CIDA, June 2002) (PDF version, 36 pages, 468 KB)
• Participation of Conflict-affected Children in Humanitarian Action: Learning from Nepal (Jason Hart with Chandrika Khatiwada for CIDA, October 2003) (PDF version, 38 pages, 361 KB)
• Children as Partners: Child Participation Promoting Social Change (Prepared for CIDA's Child Protection Unit by Philip Cook, Natasha Blanchet-Cohen and Stuart Hart, International Institute for Child Rights and Development, 2004) (PDF version, 80 pages, 1,5 MB)
• Evolving Capacities and Participation (Prepared for CIDA's Child Protection Unit by Gerison Lansdown, International Institute for Child Rights and Development, 2004) (PDF version, 25 pages, 202 KB)
• Children as Partners: Annotated Bibliography (Prepared for CIDA, Child Protection Unit, by the International Institute for Child Rights and Development, March 22, 2004) (PDF version, 22 pages, 297 KB)

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War-affected Children

• Children's Participation in Humanitarian Action: Learning from Zones of Armed Conflict
• Children in Armed Conflict: Peacebuilding Operational Framework (Geeta Narayan, CIDA, 2001) (PDF version, 19 pages, 344 KB)
• Education and Peacebuilding, Peacebuilding Operational Framework (Annette Isaac, CIDA, 2001) (PDF version, 13 pages, 302 KB)
• Support to Former Child Soldiers: Programming and Proposal Evaluation Guide (CIDA, 2005) (PDF version, 28 pages, 581 KB)
• Final Report - Working with Children in Armed Conflict: A CIDA-supported Skills Building Workshop, January 10-11, 2002 (Workshop sponsored by CACWG/CPCC and produced with CIDA) (PDF version, 66 pages, 491 KB)
• War-Affected Children Fact Sheets
• Children and War, What You Should Know (CIDA, 2003) (PDF version, 2 pages, 715 KB)
• Children and War, What the World Community is Doing (CIDA, 2003) (PDF version, 2 pages, 628 KB)
• Children and War, 10 Things You Can Do (CIDA, 2003) (PDF version, 1 page, 451 KB)
• 10 Canadian Films on War-affected Children: A Resource for High School Teachers and Students (CACWG/CPCC, 2004) (PDF version, 1 page, 874 KB)
• From Words to Action: Final Conference Report of the International Conference on War-Affected Children, Winnipeg (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Canadian International Development Agency, 2000) (PDF version, 110 pages, 606 KB)
• Caught in the Crossfire No More: a Framework for Commitment to War-Affected Children (Summary by the Chairs of the Experts Meeting, International Conference on War- Affected Children, Winnipeg, 2000) (PDF version, 17 pages, 57 KB])
• Where are the girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique: Their Lives During and After War (Susan McKay and Dyan Mazurana, Rights and Democracy, supported by CIDA's Child Protection Research Fund, 2004)

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Child Labour

• Impacts of Microfinance Initiatives on Children
• Children's Contribution to Working and Caring for the Land: The Links Between Agriculture and Children's Rights
• Private Sector Development and Child Protection: Challenges and Opportunities (Richard Carothers and CIDA's Child Protection Unit, 2004) (PDF version, 24 pages, 497 KB)

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Sexually Exploited Children

Out from the Shadows: Good Practices in Working with Sexually Exploited Children in the Americas (By Liza E. Goulet, for Institute for Child Rights and Development, with CIDA support, 2001) (PDF version, 112 pages, 1,14 MB)

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