A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation: How to measure the scope, quality and outcomes of children’s participation. Booklet 3

This booklet describes why it is important to measure the scope, quality and outcomes of participation. The scope of participation involves looking at when children get involved (the point of engagement), what level they get involved at (level of engagement), and which children get involved (inclusive engagement). The booklet describes the three different levels of children’s participation: consultative, collaborative, and child-led, using case studies from different countries to illustrate what the different approaches mean in practice, to help measure the scope of children’s participation in your programme. It provides a conceptual framework for children’s participation and introduces a series of benchmarks and tables to measure children’s participation