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Description
Project ADN is an Education for Citizenship project, working with children, professionals, and members of the community, focusing on the promotion of Children’s Rights. The project aims to raise children’s rights awareness through 3 awareness-raising campaigns (right to opinion and participation; anti-discrimination and hate speech prevention campaign and right to play campaign), sessions in school with children and training for professionals with intervention in the scope of the promotion and protection of children, namely, professionals working in commissions for the protection of children, security forces, magistrates, technical advisory services to Courts, education professionals and Civil Society Organization’s professionals with Childhood and Youth responses.
Summary of project results
The project was a civic education initiative that worked with children, professionals and community members to promote children''s rights. The mission was to disseminate the message to the community, specifically targeting professionals involved in the promotion and protection of children, such as social security, security forces, judges, technical advisory services to courts, education professionals in public or non-profit private networks in rural and remote areas, and civil society organizations with responses to children and youth.
The project was organized into four main components:
- Training Cycles for Professionals: This component included 7 training cycles, consisting of 5 workshops and 2 cycles on hearing techniques, totaling 54 hours of training. It involved 222 professionals and aimed to implement best practices between child protection systems and courts.
- +Citizenship+ Rights+ Participation Program: This component included 50 sessions for 49 primary school children, focusing on topics like the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Human Rights, Non-Violence, Citizenship, and Democracy. It also included civic initiatives and concluded with Children''s Parliament Sessions.
- SOS Program: This component included 3 training cycles, totaling 36 hours, involving 84 education professionals. It focused on preventing neglect, abuse, maltreatment, and discrimination against children, equipping professionals to act appropriately in such cases.
- Campaigns on Children''s Rights: This component included three campaigns on the Right to Opinion and Participation, Anti-Discrimination and Hate Speech Prevention, and the Right to Play. It involved 2,766 people in various activities and information sessions.
In quantitative terms, the following was achieved:
- 4 civic initiatives led by supported NGOs;
- 3 awareness raising campaigns carried out;
- 110 people educated in civic rights;
- 2 partnerships between NGOs and schools promoting civic education;
- 1 NGO initiative promoting access to information on public/private policies;
- 66% share of target group showing civic concerns;
- 1 NGO-produced evidence-based reports on public/private policies reported in the media
Regarding capacity building, the promoter conducted a needs assessment and prepared an action plan. This prompted the formulation and execution of human resources management strategies, namely a performance appraisal system.
All proposed targets were met and exceeded.