Children and participation: Research, monitoring and evaluation with children and young people

This resource provides an overview of good practice when involving children in research and evaluation, including a rationale for doing this, ethical issues to address and possible tools to use.

Contents

• Good practice and ethics
• Introduction
• Why involve children in research and evaluation
• When is children and young people's participation appropriate?
• Participation in different stages of research, monitoring and evaluation
• Ethics
• Child protection
• Tackling diversity sensitively
• Working with disabled children and young people
• Including the perspectives of very young children
• Methods and Tools
• Different research methods available
• Involving children and young people in different parts of the research process
• Training young people as researchers
• Dissemination
• Evaluating the research
• Carrying out participatory monitoring and evaluation with children and young people
• Planning and setting indicators
• Choosing methods
• Training the evaluators
• Documenting and sharing
• Reflecting on the process
• Sources of information
• Core texts on participatory research with children
• Core texts on participatory monitoring and evaluation
• General texts on participatory work with children
• General texts on participation
• Other texts on research with children
• Internet sites
• Appendix 1: Ethical codes of conduct