1: Participation in the Second Decade of Life What we mean by participation and why it is so important to adolescents.
2: Adolescent and Youth Participation - Adults Get Ready! How adults can enable adolescents’ participation.
3: Adolescent Participation and the Project Cycle How to discover the roles adolescents can play and how to achieve them.
4: Tools for Adolescent and Youth Participation Making space for discussion, tools for situational analysis and planning, how to measure progress. The series is intended for practical application by development agencies, practitioners and everyone with an interest in adolescents’ development at community, national and global levels.
Unit One
1 What is participation? 2 Examples of adolescent participation ; 3 Why participation - protecting adolescents; 4 Why participation - a spiral of development; 5 Why participation - rights; 6 Levels of participation; 7 Participation - recognizing it; 8 Participation is a partnership: It can be difficult
Unit Two
1 Principles of adult and adolescent participation; 2 An enabling environment for adolescents’ participation Family, School educators & teachers, Police, Government, Community, Media, Workplace; 3 Advocacy, Advocacy with families; 4 Preparing ourselves Group development, Statement cards on participation, Dos and don’ts of adult/ adolescent partnerships and participation
Unit Three
1 Situation analysis; 2 Some examples of adolescents’ roles in planning; 3 Implementation; 4 Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Unit Four
1 Introduction; 2 Discussion; 3 Making space for real discussion at a conference; 4 More tools for situation analysis and planning; 5 Tools for measuring progress