To achieve our desired outcomes and contribute to making children’s rights a daily reality worldwide, particularly for those facing the greatest obstacles in having their rights respected, the International Bureau for Children’s Rights (IBCR) carries out its work and supports its partners through six flagship actions.
Equipping child protection and justice system actors with key skills essential for realizing children’s rights.
We strengthen the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of these actors, focusing on key competencies essential for realizing children’s rights. This can take the form of training tools, in various formats, tailored to each context and designed for schools and training centers (both public and private), children, or associations and networks.
Promoting collaboration and synergies among actors in child protection and justice systems as part of their initiatives.
We co-develop collaboration, coordination, and synergies among these actors to eliminate siloed approaches in their actions and the services provided to children. Our approach aims to clarify: Who does what? When? With whom? How?
This can take the form of collaboratively developing sectoral procedures, multisectoral operating methods, and child-friendly procedures.
Developing and facilitating meaningful participation spaces tailored to children.
We develop and facilitate meaningful participation spaces tailored to children, enabling them to understand their rights and environment, express their opinions, be heard, and actively participate within the institutions dedicated to them.
This can take the form of child-friendly operating procedures, the establishment of children’s advisory committees, and strengthened safeguarding measures for the adults supporting them.
Facilitating experimentation in support of children’s rights.
By facilitating collaborative and flexible processes that allow for testing, evaluating, adjusting, learning, and scaling, we identify and experiment with practices or initiatives that could lead to better outcomes in the realization of children’s rights.
This can take the form of labs, child empowerment processes, multisectoral consultation groups, observer groups, and synergies among our partners, integrating them into consultation and coordination frameworks to collectively contribute to achieving results linked to key child rights issues.
Co-constructing knowledge on children’s rights.
We implement collaborative and scientific data production processes to co-construct knowledge on children’s rights, offering a critical perspective on various related approaches and fostering a shared understanding of the state of children’s rights in a given context. This cross-cutting action allows us to adapt our initiatives while also stimulating discussion on various issues for greater impact.
These processes can take the form of data collection, collaborative development of mappings and situational analyses, participatory research with children, gender-based comparative analysis, and more.
Mobilizing the public and decision-makers in support of children’s rights.