hnology and governance structures are central to achieving our breakthroughs and achieving child rights globally. However, cities also pose a unique set of challenges for children that can undermine the realization of their rights. Save the Children seeks to empower the most marginalized and deprived children and their families to claim their rights, for example, by supporting children's engagement with local authorities and by investing in strategic partnerships with municipal governments, the private sector and civil society on local, national and international levels. The goal is to work with thematic leaders to ensure that our programming is responsive the unique conditions that exist in urban areas. We hope to achieve this by conducting targeted research, driving city-to-city learning, and ensuring that local governments and their partners focus on children’s needs. Save the Children also works directly with urban communities to prepare for and respond to complex urban disasters, taking a risk reduction approach in our longer-term urban programmes. 1d:T49b,

Young Voices is a nation-wide survey on what children think about all issues that concern them under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Save the Children in Albania carried out the survey in cooperation with the child led group “Voice 16+…”, with funding from SIDA.

Young Voices – Albania 2017 reached 1,200 children from 8 regions, both urban and rural, of Albania aged 12, 14, and 17. Through this survey, children’s views and ideas on the realization of their rights were collected, elaborated, analyzed, and presented, highlighting their main concerns like participation in decision making, education, violence, bullying, safety in schools and in the community, discrimination, etc.

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