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Bringing young street-connected people’s voices into monitoring,
evaluation and planning
Dr. Sarah Thomas de BenitezConsortium for Street Children
Youth | Participation | Impact Manchester 2015
1.Youth - Young street-connected people
2.Participation - A focus on participatory monitoring and evaluation
3.Impact – From NGO planning to UN law
A Passport to Participatory Planning
1. Young street-connected people
Definition: A young person for whom the street is a central reference point, one which plays a significant role in his or her everyday life and identity
1. Young street-connected people: From visible to invisible
• Evidence of ‘street children’: ignored, distorted by government policies
• Discrimination, brutality and round-ups by police
• The role of civil society?
• ‘Figures that occupied a prominent role in the early 1990s, such as the street child, have slowly disappeared from the agenda, while the child victim of violence has gradually become the dominant icon…’
• 1 – Complex arguments: violence against children is simpler & easier to argue than advocacy on behalf of street children
• 2 - Asymmetries of power: have rallied actors around the priorities of UN entities and large INGOs backed by States’ vested interests
Poretti et al, 2013: The rise and fall of icons of ‘stolen
Childhood’ since the adoption of he UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child
1. Young street-connected people: Why do they become invisible?
1. Young street-connected people: How do they become invisible?
Jones et al, ODI, 2013: Knowledge, policy and power in international development: a practical framework for improving policy
2. Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation: What’s the Problem?
Making sure we ask the ‘right’ young people…
2. Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation: The ‘How’ part…
Asking appropriate questions in meaningful ways…
2. Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation: Using adult knowledge…
Opening up adult understandings and knowledge, fostering dialogue with young people…
3. Impact –Take up in NGO Planning
Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation: Taking it into
Transparency from Evaluation to Planning…
3. Impact – UN Law: UN General Comment on Children in Street Situations
• First piece of international law on street children!
• Focus on discrimination & rights in public spaces
• Consultations with Young People
3. Impact – UN Law: UN General Comment on Children in Street Situations
• Make young people visible
• Make them heard
• Make people listen (the hardest?) – Implementation?