The Policy Briefing Paper which is published jointly by Time to Talk and Young Lives, aims to incorporate Working Children´s Views in policy interventions: Download here.

Children’s Advisory Committees for Consultations on Children’s Work  The Campaign aims to encourage and support children to organise action in their local communities and to be heard at different levels to improve the lives of working children. To support the organisation of the consultations Children’s Advisory Committees were  formed in 17 countries and regions of the world. Members of the Children’s Advisory Committee can: ✓ help try out the consultation tools and give suggestions to improve them; ✓ support consultations with working girls and boys in your country; ✓ undertake action to improve the lives of working children; ✓ support analysis of key findings from consultations with children in different places; ✓ help to develop recommendations for different groups of adults (e.g. government, employers, parents/ caregivers, teachers etc) to improve the lives of working children; ✓ advise and support the development of presentations and child friendly reports Some of the  Children’s Advisory Committees (CAC) built upon an existing children’s group or were create as a new group of working children to form a new Children’s…

“Simply Explained” – the results of the Global Conference of The Sustained Eradication of Child Labour explained child friendly The inicial aim of the “It´s Time to Talk!”-campaign was to visit the Global Conference of The Sustained Eradication of Child Labour in Buenos Aires in November 2017 together with a children´s delegation. Because of several reasons concerning time and logistic troubles we were not able to reach this aim: the Steering comittee of Time to Talk! traveled as represantatives for all participating children to Argentina and presented the campaign and finally the report with all findings and results. The report is already available in a child friendly language to share all experiences and views of the children among each other. But we also want to explain what results came out of the conference itself. All participating countries adopted a declaration after the conference. In “Simply Explained” we wrote this declaration in a very child friendly language to let all children know, what they decided what will happen concerning “child work” in the future. One of…

As we are a participatory project, all information shared was provided also in a child-friendly and inclusive language. The Main Report of Time to Talk, a paper of 161 pages, was redesigned in a child-friendly comic. “Paul´s Diary” is the story of the protagonist Paul, who visits working children worldwide to chat with them about their life situations, ideas and demands. During his journey he is accompanied by Supermaia, who explains Paul and the readers more about this complex issue. Paul´s diary was translated into 10 languages. You find them for download here.

The CAC Advocacy Action will take place from June 2019 until September of the same year.

The Toolkit II was developed for the Time to Talk! extension in 2019, which focuses on collaborative and child-led advocacy. Strenghtening Colloborative and Child-led Advocacy The primary purpose of this toolkit is to support collaborative and child-led advocacy by working children, especially in their local and national contexts. The toolkit is designed to increase the capacity of adult and child/youth facilitators to work with children’s committees/groups to plan, implement, and monitor advocacy actions that will help to improve their lives at local, sub-national, national, regional and/or global levels. The tools included in this toolkit are designed for use with, and by, children and young people aged eight to 18. You can click here to download the toolkit!