Strengthening knowledge and capacities on meaningful child participation is at the core of both the former campaign It’s Time to Talk! and Dialogue Works. Toolkits, policy briefs, reports and child friendly documents are available here.
Advocacy
Briefing Paper on incorporating Children's Views in Policy Interventions
The Policy Briefing Paper I which is published jointly by Time to Talk and Young Lives, aims to incorporate working Children's Views in Policy Interventions.
Briefing Paper on incorporating Children's Views in Policy Interventions
Kigali Declaration
CAC representatives from 16 countries around the world came together for the Global Gathering of Working Children and Youth in Rwanda in January 2023.
They developed an outcome document with suggestions and demands for policy and practice from the local to the global level.
English, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili, Amharic, Indonesian, French, German, Filipino, Hiligaynon (dialect in the Philippines), Hindi, Nepali
Kigali Declaration
Child friendly
Child friendly:
Paul´s diary
In our child-friendly report, Paul and Supermaia travel the world together to visit working children and to find out about the different lives, hopes and reasons why children work.
English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Kyrgysz, Thai, Nepali, Hindi, Swahili
Child friendly:
Paul´s diary
Child friendly: Durban Call to Action!
This is the child friendly version of the Durban Call to Action – outcome document of the V Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour that took place in South Africa in May 2022, developed jointly by Dialogue Works and other child rights organisations (UNICEF, the Child Rights Network for Southern Africa (CRNSA), Save the Children and the Department of Social Development of the Republic of South Africa).
Child friendly: Durban Call to Action!
Your Advocacy Guide
This advocacy guide brings together best ideas and practices for representing children's interests.
Representing interests is also known as advocacy.
Your Advocacy Guide
Research
It's Time to Talk! - Research Report (2017)
We proudly present our final T2T-report with all findings of the consultations with 1.822 children worldwide. 134 consultations with girls and boys aged 5 to 18 were organized across 36 countries between April 2016 and May 2017 with child friendly research methods.
It's Time to Talk - Research Report (2017)
It's Time to Talk - Lessons Learned II
This report outlines the results of the lessons learned and validation process of the Time to Talk project, undertaken from August 2018 to April 2020.
It's Time to Talk - Lessons Learned II
It's Time to Talk! - Reflections on Child Participation
This publication summarises the results of the internal lessons learned process and an external evaluation conducted in 2020.
It's Time to Talk! - Reflections on Child Participation
Global Evaluation of It's Time to Talk!
This publication encompasses the campaign's evaluation report. The evaluation was conducted by an external team of researchers in 2020.
Global Evaluation of It's Time to Talk!
Situation analysis on child labour and participation
Dialogue Works partners in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Lebanon, Nepal, Peru and Zimbabwe have conducted country specific analysises on child labour and participation - the findings are summarized here.
Situation analysis on child labour and participation
Toolkits
Toolkit II - Advocacy
The Time to Talk! Advocacy Toolkit was developed to provide guidance on collaborative and child-led advocacy activities. We encourage everyone who works with children and youth between eight to 18 to use the Original Toolkit first and to further support collaborative and child led advocacy the Toolkit II.
Toolkit II - Advocacy
Training Module - Self-Care, Risk and Disappointment Management
This module provides activities for CAC members, youth and adult co-facilitators to enhance self-care, celebrate achievements and manage risks and disappointments.
Training Module - Self-Care, Risk and Disappointment Management
Training Module - Embedding and Institutionalising Children' Participation (Part A)
This module supports efforts to embed structures such as Children's Advisory Committees (CACs) in ongoing organisational structures.
Training Module - Embedding and Institutionalising Children' Participation (Part A)
Training Module - Embedding and Institutionalising Children' Participation (Part B)
This module focuses on efforts to embed and institutionalise sustainable platforms and processes for working children's participation in external institutions and governance mechanisms.
Training Module - Embedding and Institutionalising Children' Participation (Part B)
Skill Training: Climate change
This skill training workshop, developed by the partner organisations TAWLAE (Tanzania), JCM (Zambia) and Claire O'Kane, provides activities for CAC members to gain knowledge to involve different stakeholders to find solutions to tackle climate change.
Skill Training: Climate change
Skill Training: Theatre
This skill training workshop, developed by the partner organisation CAJDEN (Philippines), provides activities for CAC members to learn how to express themselves by learning basic acting skills and how to present advocacy messages through theatre.
Skill Training: Theatre
Skill Training: Disability and inclusion
This skill training workshop, developed by the partner organisation CSID (Bangladesh), provides activities for CAC members to gain or increase their knowledge on disability, diverse types of disability, challenges and the process of disability inclusion.
Skill Training: Disability and inclusion
Training Module - Communication and self-expression
This training module provides creative activities for CAC members to strengthen their self-expression and communication skills that benefit the power and authenticity of child and youth-led advocacy.
Training Module - Communication and self-expression
Training Module - Social Accountability
This training module introduces and encourages practical application of general concepts and approaches to social accountability, and it introduces some tailor-made Dialogue Works user-friendly templates to support such efforts.
Training module - Social Accountability
Reports
Documentation Global Gathering
CAC representatives from 16 countries around the world came together for the Global Gathering of Working Children and Youth in Rwanda in January 2023.
This documentation informs about the program of the Conference, the results of the discussions and activities, and lessons learned and an evaluation of the Gathering.
Documentation Global Gathering
Evaluation Report: Mid-Term Evaluation
The MTE focuses on analysing what has been achieved during the project´s lifetime so far – from 15/10/2020 to 20/01/2023 – and what are the most important lessons learned.
