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Meaningful Youth Participation • 13 March 2025

References and Further Reading

Here you can find the ideas and documents that informed this Framework. If you would like more inspiration for further reading on Meaningful Youth Participation, visit our Campfire page: https://campfire.wagggs.org/dashboard/meaningful-youth-participation 

Wider WAGGGS resources related to meaningful youth participation:  

  • Growing and Learning Framework (2025)
  • Capacity Assessment Tool  
  • Compass 2032 (2021)
  • The Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leadership Framework (2021)  
  • From Paper to Practice: How to apply the Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leadership Model in your organisation (2021)  
  • Finding Our Path Toolkit (2020)  
  • Young Women in Governance Research (2020)  
  • The Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leadership Model (2018)  
  • Prepared to Learn, Prepared to Lead (2014)   

Models of Youth Participation  

CHOICE (2017) The Flower of Participation. [online] CHOICE. Available at: https://www.choiceforyouth.org/assets/Toolkits/MIYP/Flower-of-Participa… 20171122-Flower-of-Participation-Narrative-2.pdf 

Hart, R. (1992) Children’s participation: From tokenism to citizenship. Florence, UNICEF International Child Development Centre.  

HeadStart Learning Team (2022) Youth participation: models used to understand young people’s participation in school and community programmes. London, UCL. Available here.

Lundy, L. (2013) ‘Voice’ is not enough: conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. British Educational Research Journal. 33 (6), 927-942. 

References

Anderson, M. L. and Hill Collins, P. (2016) Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (9th Edition). Boston, USA, Cengage Learning.  

Crenshaw, K. (1989) Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum. 1989 (1), 139-167.

Crenshaw, K. (2016) The Urgency of Intersectionality. [TED Talk] San Francisco, October. 

Lansdown, G. and O’Kane, C. (2014) A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation. Save the Children [online].  

Nedera, S. (2023) What is intersectionality? And why is it important for gender equality?. UNDP [online]. 

UN Women (2021) Intersectionality resource guide and toolkit. UN Women [online].

United Nations (1989) Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF [online]. Available at: https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text also available at: https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text-children….  

UNSCEB (2017) Leaving No One Behind: Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Heart of Sustainable Development. New York, United Nations

 

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