Child Participation Protection

Child Space is considered a safe place for children where children start their pre-primary education following a formal weekly session plan. With the participation in education process, children also get to know about their child rights and protection through participating in various awareness raising session like good touch bad touch for little children, violence, coping strategies with disasters, adolescence changes, and others for elder children. Different day observation, celebration and competition are organized based on the child space where every community child can participate and take the benefit of children programs.

The Child Journalist Group (CJG) is a grassroots initiative by ActionAid Bangladesh to empower children and communities through access to information and active participation. Operating across 11 LRPs with 30 groups, CJG ensures the voices of vulnerable communities are heard, promoting good governance and sustainable development. Through capacity-building, newsletters, and meetings with local authorities, CJG enhances children’s leadership, critical thinking, and creative skills. Members raise awareness, share ideas, and advocate for child rights and community issues. This initiative nurtures future leaders while strengthening connections with local governments, turning children into active citizens and champions of change.

Since 2019, ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) has been facilitating the operation of the Child Forum in its working area. This is an initiative to make children confident by ensuring their participation in the development process and inspiring community participation and promoting good governance in the society.

The goal of the Child Forum is to raise awareness for the establishment of child rights and child protection in society and work towards empowering children through the development of child leadership. The Child Sponsorship Unit of ActionAid Bangladesh arranges trainings with the purpose of developing different skills of children to encourage participation in the development of their individual communities. 

Community led Child Protection Reporting committees are the first step of this mechanism where a group of individuals work to minimize child protection risk. They work with formal and informal institutes to seek help for solving child protection issues and work as watchdog of community regarding the same issue. They raise awareness among families and identify child protection risk to supporting them with various methods.