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Toolkit with 12 creative methods for youth participation (10–14 years) to explore, design, and present social solutions.

Creative guide for youth participation facilitators (10–14 years) using design to explore and solve social issues.

Global Campus model for child-led participation in academia, tested in Nepal in 2022.

A practical booklet for youth workers to guide youth participation in local activities (ages 13–18) in rural Georgia.

Hungarian methodological guide compiling youth participation methods—such as participatory budgeting, debate forums, and student governments

Practical handbook on youth participation, introducing key models, case studies, and methods to foster meaningful involvement of young people in democratic and community life.

Estonian guidelines for implementing children’s right to participate, with 10 principles, tools, and good practices to ensure meaningful and safe involvement in decision-making.

Practical guide for public administrations to listen to and involve children and adolescents in decision-making, with concrete recommendations, tools, and accountability steps.

Handbook of youth participation models, presenting 28 frameworks and practical tools to strengthen student-led participation and co-creation in schools.

UNICEF Italy guide to strengthen children’s and adolescents’ councils, offering practical steps, quality standards, and safeguards to ensure their voices influence decisions at the school and local level.

Guidelines providing principles, processes and governance tools to institutionalize participation across family, school, community and public institutions.

Practical method collection developed in Stuttgart to support child participation processes, offering adaptable tools for schools, youth work, and municipal projects.

Portuguese guidance material with principles, tools, and recommendations for child and youth participation, aiming to support institutions in designing inclusive and rights-based processes.

Guide offering common guidelines on child and adolescent participation, with principles, spaces, evaluation tools, and indicators to strengthen genuine, rights-based involvement.

A practical guide to institutionalize adolescent participation (10–19 years) using Lundy’s space–voice–audience–influence and a five-strategy theory of change.

Practical guide introducing adolescents to their right to participate in family, school, community and public life.

Guide with practical tools to strengthen children’s participation through rights-based activities.

Rights-based toolkit with age-adapted activities (6–16 years) to plan and run child participation.

A 40-minute workshop to reflect on and improve student voice in classroom learning and decision-making.

A step-by-step template to help students lead meaningful participation projects in schools.

Workshops to help students explore and improve their role in school and classroom decision-making.

A structured peer-planning tool to support teacher-led initiatives on student voice in schools.

A guide for building meaningful student participation across school life through structured dialogue and audits.

Audit tool to assess and strengthen student voice in whole-school decision-making practices.

A practical framework detailing nine core requirements for ethical and impactful child participation, aligned with children’s rights.

A practical guide to strengthen authentic student voice and participation in school decision-making.

OECD analysis of models, benefits, and barriers to authentic child participation in education systems.

Adapted model of 3‑hour youth‑led democratic assemblies to learn civic skills and build consensus on real issues.

Rights-based toolkit to embed meaningful child and youth participation in Irish public services.

Tool to help measure and improve meaningful child and youth participation using clear indicators.