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The project works to ensure the active participation of children ages 6-15 in the decision and policy-making processes regarding the development of the city they live in. The goal is to prioritise children's participation in city affairs, recognising this as their fundamental right.
This project intends to provide municipalities with qualified outputs toward establishing a medium and long-term children strategy and engagement program, with a focus on increasing the active participation of children in their city's decision and policy-making processes. A distinctive feature of the project is it is structured such that children are empowered to freely share their voices and determine their own agendas. This underlines the basic approach of the effort as being a bottom-up “with children” approach, in contrast to a top-down “for children” approach. This project also intends to contribute to the active involvement of local government in the process and thus be a model for future local government practices.
This effort has involved the following key activities:
Engagement intitiatives included workshops at City Council premises implemented by educators of cocukistanbul, as well as workshops by partner NGOs, schools and municipality departments that were implemented by educators who were trained by cocukistanbul. Additionally, city wide open space "stations" for drop-in participation of children used the same materials as used in workshops and supervised by trained educators. A final component of the engagement efforts included a structured series of meetings between groups of children and city municipality representatives.
