Children’s Rights and Participation
We engage children in data collection and analysis on their rights.
Featured Project
UNICEF USA's Child Friendly Cities Initiative
The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) is a global UNICEF initiative that engages local governments in prioritizing the rights of children. From 2019-2022, Conscious Data Inc. served as technical leader on behalf of UNICEF USA in adapting CFCI for the United States context. Initial CFCI efforts have focused on addressing systemic racism, climate change and/or COVID response and recovery through a child rights approach.
Our Contributions
Synthesize research to design a holistic, child rights framework for action that addresses the assets and needs of young people in the USA.
Lead national webinars to build local and national capacity in the CFCI framework for action, children’s rights and children’s participation.
Develop a collective impact monitoring and evaluation framework that addresses the root causes of poor child well-being, and defines strategies, results and outcomes for children and youth.
Write technical resources on children’s rights, equity and social justice, stakeholder engagement, child rights situation analysis, community assessments, and intergenerational local action planning.
Develop child and youth-led community engagement strategies, infographics, training materials, facilitator guides and tools for participatory data collection and analysis with children ages 18 and under, service providers and adult allies.
Conduct research and support cities to develop child-centered emergency preparedness and response plans.
Press
Houston, USA Case Study
Child Friendly Cities Initiative
Example Publications
Wridt, P. (et. al). (2023). Benefits of the Child Friendly Cities Initiative. Chapter in Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth.
UNICEF. (2023). Evaluability Assessment of the NSA Kenno - We Can Do It! Program. The Gambia Country Office.
UNICEF. (2023). Evaluability Assessment of the UNICEF Liberia Country Programme, 2020-2024. Liberia Country Office.
UNICEF. (2022). Country Programme Evaluation of the Eritrea-UNICEF Country Programme of Cooperation, 2017-2021. Eritrea Country Office.
UNICEF. (2021). Evaluability Assessment of UNICEF Sierra Leone Country Programme, 2020-2023. Sierra Leone Country Office.
UNICEF. (2021). Evaluability Assessment of Flagship Results and the Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding Response in Ethiopia, 2020-2025. Ethiopia Country Office.
UNICEF. (2021). Evaluability Assessment of the Business for Results (B4R) Portfolio, 2018-2022. Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office.
Wridt, P., Atmakur-Javdekar, S. & Hart, R. (2015). Spatializing Children’s Rights: A Comparison of Two Case Studies from Urban India. Children, Youth and Environments 25(2): 33-85.
Wridt, P. (2015). Child Friendly Places: Global Evaluation of a Participatory, Child Rights Approach to Intergenerational Assessment, Planning and Local Development. Children’s Environments Research Group and the Bernard van Leer Foundation.
UNICEF. (2015). Assessment of UNICEF’s Child Friendly Cities in Countries with a National Committee Presence. UNICEF Private Partnerships and Fundraising Division, Geneva. Co-authored with Roger Hart, and Selim Iltus.
Kingston, B., Wridt, P., Chawla, L., van Vliet, W., Brink. L. (2007). Creating child-friendly-cities: The case of Denver. Municipal Engineering, 160(2):97-102.