Approaches to Child Participation

This paper focuses on child participation in development activities. It seeks to generate discussion, and greater clarity, among those who wish to promote the principle of child participation as enunciated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and contribute more broadly to the development of the `Children’s Agenda’. The aim is to clarify concepts which otherwise may end up as meaningless, and to contribute to a debate on the subject which can lead to better practice and the realisation of `child rights’.