This handbook documents how 48 civil society organisations across nine European countries involve children meaningfully in violence prevention work. Produced by Eurochild and Terre des hommes as part of the EU-funded Daphne-CHILD programme, it presents a project-by-project overview of child participation practices, covering approaches such as co-design, peer education, child-led research, arts-based methods, advocacy, and digital tools.
Each project entry describes how children are involved across the design, implementation, and evaluation of the initiative, and is tagged by participation method, type of violence addressed, population focus, age group, setting, and key features. This makes it straightforward to find approaches relevant to a specific context, whether working with Roma children in rural communities, children with disabilities, refugees, or children affected by conflict.
The handbook is grounded in the nine principles for meaningful and ethical child participation.
This handbook is useful for child protection practitioners and youth workers looking for concrete facilitation techniques and methods they can adapt; educators, social workers, and psychologists seeking age-appropriate, trauma-informed approaches; policymakers wanting country-based evidence of how participation strengthens child protection outcomes; and funders seeking to understand what meaningful participation requires in practice.
