Presentation by Executive Director on DBAI National Meeting at Hydrabad

1. A participatory movement for child
rights

2. Focus
Empowering children in playing a leading role in
their own development.

3. Targets
Children from 10 districts of Karnataka state in
India that are most at risk especially those
whose fundamental rights are endangered such
as street and working children, school drop outs,
children affected or infected with HIV/AIDS,
children in conflict with the law and children
living in remote rural villages.

4. THEME
Promote children’s participation, promotion of
children’s rights, advocacy actions, support for
networking and children’s representation in
formal constituencies where children can raise
their problems and issues and exercise their
competencies.

5. Idea, Objectives and Expected Results
• Enhance confidence level of children to work in a team,
address local issues and interaction with local governance
bodies and decision makers and thus high level participation
of Children is ensured. Also scaling up child participation
from different experimented models to consolidation
• Enhanced capacities and improved levels of confidence of
children and various stakeholders (social workers, parents,
community leaders etc.) to involve children and to advocate
and demand accessibility of services on a right based
perceptive.
• Care and protection of the children at risk through
participatory strategies and structures which can replicate the
desired effects even in future development interventions.

6. Human Right Education- the USP of the
project
Human Right Education (HRE) in 450 schools with a
reach out of 22500 children is the highlight of the
project.
Training in HRE / CRE has helped the children to learn about human
dignity, to respect and love each other, to know their own rights, to
know the rights of others, and to understand social responsibilities.

7. Child Centred Community Structures
and Participatory Approach
Formed Child Right Clubs and Community Vigilant
groups(Task Forces)
These platforms ensured the participation of children in various fronts
High level of child involvement has been planned in all project activities through
formation and strengthening of various forums of children and the representation
of these forums in the formal constituencies
Close collaboration with government, civil society groups, NGOs and
Government schools - KCPCR, Women and Child Welfare Department, Child
Line, CWC, MCB

8. Results and related Programmes
1. Children’s participation and Child Right Promotion
•Formation of Child Right Clubs in Schools
•Formation and strengthening of regional and state level networks of
Child Right Clubs
•Human Right Education in schools
•Formation and strengthening of school development and monitoring
committees with substantial representation of children and their
meaningful participation;
•Initiation of participatory action research/ research by children.

9. Results and related Programmes
2. Enhance Capacities of children & Other Stake holders
• Peer education among street children and children living with HIV/AIDS,
drug addicted children and children in conflict with the law
• Competency building of children, children’s groups and other
stakeholders of the project through trainings, workshops, campaigns,
specialised skill trainings and non formal awareness techniques.

10. Results and related Programmes
2. Child Care and Protection
•Formation of task forces in villages to prevent child trafficking, school drop
outs, child labour etc.; These task force will be a mix of children and adults
from the communities
•Children’s campaigns for advocacy and lobbying for 100 % school
enrolment
•Initiation of Missing Child Search Network to trace out missing children and
ensure their care and protection and expand it in all the districts for
influencing policies of child protection
•Initiation and strengthening of Child Line/Child Safety Nets in all the target
districts by involving children, community leaders, government officials and
civil society groups

11. Innovative and result oriented
implementation method
Effective methodology for implementation for getting maximum results
in each action.
High involvement of children and community has been ensured in all
stages, with an aim to reach sustainability at the end of the project.
Follows a typical project management cycle, with phases of identification,
planning, implementation, evaluation, scaling up, with learning component at
every stage of the cycle.

12. Innovative and result oriented implementation method
Project Organization
BREADS Team
Project Coordinator(10)
one in each district
Social Activists (50)
Five in each district
Supplimentary
education and Bridge
school teachers (100)
10 in each district)
HRE Facilitators (
Trained Teachers from
Schools)
Coodinator for Missing
Child Search Bureau
Project Directors(10)
one in each district

13. Online Process Documentation and
Disaggregate Data collection

14. Comprehensive and Effective Monitoring
and Evaluation System
Impacts
Outputs
Activity
Knowledge
capitalization
Experiential
learning
Integration/inter
nalization of
success
indicators
Assessments
Accumulation

15. Comprehensive and Effective Monitoring
and Evaluation System
Groups
• CRC, SHG, TFs
Who
• Social Activists
• Tuiton Teachers
• Leaders/members of
Grass root level groups
When
• once a week in the initial
stage, and twice a
month later,Group
meetings at least once in
a month
What
• Assess the progress of
each activity and share
the experiences of each
grass root level
organization with clear
progress indicaors
How
• through formats that are
locally understandable
and less time consuming
• Focused Group
Discussion
• direct interaction
Community Level
Who
•Project
Director
•Project
Coordinato
r
•Social
Activists
•Tuiton
Teachers
When
•Once in a
Month
What
Assesses the progress.
Review of the previous
months activities, planning,
and sharing of experiences
of each member of the
staff
revisting of ouput
indicators
How
•Presentati
on
•Group
discussion
•Experienc
e sharing
•Brain
storming
sessions
Community Level
Project Level
Who
•Project
Director s
•Project
Coordinators
•Executive
Director -
BREADS
When
•Once in six
month
Period
What
Assesses the outcomes
and impacts. revist the
approaches,
capitalization of learning
How
•Presentation
•Group
discussion
•Experience
sharing
•Brain
Core TeamMeeting

16. Comprehensive and Effective Monitoring
and Evaluation System
The project use two levels of indicators
Progress Indicators
Results Indicators

17. Comprehensive and Effective Monitoring and Evaluation System
Some key M & E indicators that are used in the project:
Activity monitoring
(Efficiency indicators – target vs actual,...)
Outputs
Impacts
Quality control
Cost control
Institutions
Effectiveness
Scaling up
Sustainability

18. Participatory Action Research – learning and
fostering tool for participation
Purpose: Capture the outcome of the learning experiences and scale up the same in the
future
How : A research hypothesis was developed in a participatory manner, and a facilitator is
guiding and facilitating the programs (participation, right based approaches, care and
protection) proposed in the project
Method: The entire process of these programs are documented for further review and
analysis.
Who: The children have also actively participate in the implementation of the programs, in
documentation and analysis
When: Once in two months the project coordinators and children’s representatives meet
together to assess the process and progress of their actions.

19. Participatory Action Research – learning and
fostering tool for participation
Research Question/ Hypothesis identified through
participatory processes
Empowered children would play a leading role in their own
development and the development of their communities while
creating a strong base for their meaningful participation at
various forums at local, regional and state levels.

20. Participatory Action Research – learning and
fostering tool for participation
Actions executing and methodologies followed
• The research hypothesis was developed in a participatory manner, and one external expert is guiding and
facilitating the programs (participation, right based approaches, care and protection) proposed in the project
• Created effective forums/structures/platforms ( child right clubs, task forces, ....) to foster genuine
participation of children and to play pivotal roles to promote their rights
• Facilitate the actions for fostering participation of children in various institutions or groups, such as family,
school, leisure groups, vulnerable children , civil society groups, governance with focus on local government,
child welfare agencies/departments, etc
• Support children to effectively network, participate and be directly represented in local and regional
decision-making forums/institutions (SDMC, Gramashaba, community groups ...) impacting upon their
lives and the fulfilment of their rights.
• Foster genuine child leadership among children (leadership and personality development trainings,
representation in various forums....) , in strategic development interventions and advocacy actions at
local, regional and state level.
• Encourage communication through child-led and child participatory communication strategies; including
media (Media scan by children, Children’s paper, Children’s Press meet, etc, Children’s Community
Radio....)
• Data collection and analysis through participatory research methods( FGD, Questionnaire, Interview,
Institutional diagram, etc) and discussing it with the group involved in action research process

21. Collectivisation and pro actions through CREAM
Networks (District, Regional and State Level)
Objectives
•Participation (Children...)
•Collective Actions (Campaigns for Child Rights....)
•Advocacy – (Child Friendly Policies....)
•Lobbying – (Children’s Budget....)
•Child Care (for unaccompanied/vulnerable children....)
•Child Protection (trafficking, abuse, etc....)
State level
Regional
level
District
level

22. Thank You
Fr. Joy Nedumparambil
BREADS Bangalore