This CPC Learning Network hosted a conversation with partners and faculty affiliates on "Rethinking Child & Youth Participatory Methodologies & Processes: Presentations from our Partner Research Centers in Uganda, Indonesia, and Colombia".
For over thirty years, the child well-being and rights community has been engaging in child and youth participatory research methodologies building a robust body of research, learning, literature, guidelines, and practice. Over the last few years, we have seen an increased focus on participatory research methodologies – including survivor, refugee child, and youth-led research – by donors, policymakers, researchers, and international agencies. With this renewed focus, this session focused on the child and youth participatory research and evaluation processes, design, and methodology. The session also unpacked conceptions of childhood, vulnerability, power and politics in academic research and evaluation.
Our three presenters -- Clare Ahabwe Bangirana from AfriChild Centre at Makerere University, Clara Siagian from PUSKAPA at Universitas Indonesia, and Liliana Arias-Ururena from Imagina at Universidad de Los Andes -- shared case examples and challenges with involving children more fully in agenda setting, planning, research, and program implementation.