Rejuvenate is a project that recognises the value that children and young people can bring when they are given the space and support to do so.
It began with a process to collate and map previous and current child rights projects that exhibit substantive participation with children and youth people.
The project draws on existing practitioner and academic literature, field experts and exemplary projects. The project team brought all three of these elements together in what they are calling a ‘living archive’, an evolving database of projects, resources, organisations and people.
The archive draws on literature from children’s and youth geographies, the sociology and anthropology of childhood and youth, education, international development, and documents that elaborate on projects that include children and young people.
The ‘living archive’ forms the basis of what the project hopes will become a resource hub for projects and practitioners working at the intersection between child/youth-led work and social change work.
As part of the reflection on the mapping exercise, the project also propose a set of field principles, as guidelines to facilitate more horizontal collaborative work with children and young people. You can find out more in the project’s Working Paper ‘Learning from a Living Archive: Rejuvenating Child and Youth Rights and Participation’.
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