From Participation to Empowerment: Including feedback from children in evaluating and improving services

This tool was produced within the context of the EU funded project “No Longer Alone: Advancing Reception Standards for Unaccompanied Minors”. This tool was developed with the purpose of supporting actors in monitoring and improving reception conditions through cooperation. According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children should be involved in these structural processes.

Yet often actors lack the necessary tools to collect children’s views on actual practices. Therefore, Save the Children Sweden wanted to pilot some of the existing methods for participation with the purpose of sharing these experiences with other actors responsible for reception conditions.

This publication describes the purpose and benefit of involving children and youth in evaluating and improving existing practices. It also contains a set of practical tools that can be used to increase participation.