Consultation with children in East Africa for the World Humanitarian Summit

1. World
Humanitarian
Consultation
By Cherie Enns
Child Participation and Gender Learning Event
3-5 November 2015, Entebbe Uganda

2. Outline
Purpose
Tools
Outcomes
Questions
http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.
se/library/consultation-children-east-
africa-world-humanitarian-summit-
messages-children-affected

3. Consultation Objective
Eastern Africa’s children’s lived experiences influence discourse
and decisions in the review of the global humanitarian
architecture in 2016 and child-stated
Consultation Output
A report communicating strong advocacy messages relying on
the outcomes of the consultations, including analysis and
recommendations;
All compiled within 6 weeks

4. https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/whs_about
https://vimeo.com/91973897

5. Critical Need to Provide Child
Insights
The summit will set a new agenda for global humanitarian
action, under the below proposed four areas:
Humanitarian effectiveness
Reducing vulnerability and managing risk
Serving the needs of people in conflict
Transformation through innovation

6. Training for Consultation
The purpose of the project is to
provide staff training, facilitate
workshop events and produce
workshop findings that can be used
to provide a basis in shaping
humanitarian aid and increasing
effectiveness in the lives of refugee
and conflict affected children

7. Method -3 Tiered
Survey Tool
Worked with former refugee children now students of mine
Mapping Tool
Creative Arts Tool
http://cherieennsconsulting.ca/international-child-friendly-planning

8. Children will be selected to
participate based on the following
criteria:
Age of the children must be within the respective target
ranges.
Children must not be at risk while participating.
Children must be able to communicate clearly.
Children who may have participated in a past similar
activities
Volunteer basis.
Consider child level of vulnerability.

9. Consultation Overview
Consultations will seek to determine the views of children such
as:
What they are and are not receiving in crisis situations
What they want in emergency situations
How humanitarian aid can be improved

10. Proposed Consultation Timeline

11. 1. Survey and Facilitator Tool
Tool
Facilitator Guide
Resources

12. 1. Survey Tool
Reducing Vulnerability and Managing
Risks
One of the tools set out for identifying the shocks
and stresses that children experience is the survey
tool.
The survey identifies emotions, “worries” and
“solutions” and includes drawing home, camp
and what makes them feel safe.
Facilitators are guided in expanding on the
children’s drawings and responses.
Resources are provided.

13. Theme: Reducing Vulnerability and
Managing Risks
To understand the changing nature of shocks and
stresses and how it affects children and explore
how children can be supported to build resilience
in their communities
What are the experiences of children - Shocks and
stresses
What are the coping mechanisms

14. Instructions to Field Workers
Location, Numbers, Use of Each Tool is as you
are able to complete over this brief period.
It would be great to have between 150 and 300
children participate in Survey Tool 1 and then
more select groups with respect to the Mapping
and Creative Arts Tools.
Tools are on the WHS Training Course Site
All tools and resources on Training Site

15. Serving the Needs of People in
Conflict
From the results gathered in
the community mapping tool,
the children’s priorities will
develop.
This method is effective
because it uses simple graphic
representations of outstanding
needs and issues that stand out
to the children.
Best practices can then be
applied to preventing and
resolving outstanding issues.

16. Humanitarian Effectiveness
The community mapping tool identifies
children’s opinions and experience.
Children will use sharpie pens on sheets to
identify various aspects regarding conflict
events, resultant or lack of humanitarian aid,
how that has affected them and what needs
were not met.
This method allows them freedom of
expression as opposed to structured surveys.

17. Important Places

18. 3. Creative Arts Tool
The summit will set a new agenda for global humanitarian
action, under the below proposed four areas:
Humanitarian effectiveness
Reducing vulnerability and managing risk
Transformation through innovation
Serving the needs of people in conflict

19. Creative Art Tool Facilitator
From
Provides insights and guidelines
Output is a poem, story, words to a song
If possible you could take photos and even
video to send as part of your package
https://vimeo.com/137436268

20. Transformation through Innovation
Approach to gathering
the voices of children is
to simply have the
children use their voices
through story, song, or
poem.
Children will be engaged
in a fun way that
encourages them to be
open and comfortable.

21. Effective Consultation Requires
You
“Personnel selected to work with
refugee/IDP children must understand
children's developmental needs and know
how” government policy, protection and
“assistance activities relate to those needs
specific to children” (UNICEF).
Video
..“personnel working directly with children must be skilled in communicating
with children” and be able to recognize when and how to act in specific
situations such as “when it is necessary for the worker to speak the children's
language” (UNICEF, 1994).