A practical tool to help institutions meaningfully involve children in decision‑making. These guidelines outline how to create, support, and sustain a Child Advisory Board, ensuring children’s views and expertise shape actions and policies. 

We Are Here: Child Participation Toolbox is a practical and child‑friendly toolbox designed to strengthen meaningful collaboration between children and adults. Grounded in children’s rights and holistic wellbeing, it offers over 60 activities, tools and guided processes to build trust, prepare children to express their views, support representation, and enable inclusive decision‑making. It helps adults share power and make decisions informed by children’s lived experiences. 

The Child Participation Assessment Tool is a structured framework developed by the Council of Europe to measure progress in implementing children’s right to participate in decision‑making. It uses 10 indicators covering legal protections, awareness‑raising, and creating meaningful spaces for participation. It helps institutions assess their baseline, identify gaps, and track progress over time. 

The EU Child Participation Platform is a participatory framework that helps ensure children’s views are meaningfully and safely integrated into EU decision‑making, enabling them to contribute through consultations, surveys, and workshops. 

A practical, rights‑based framework used to create meaningful, ethical, and safe opportunities with high quality children in any kind of child participation process, whether it is individual or group based.

Speaking Minds is a youth participation methodology developed by Save the Children in 2016 to meaningfully involve practically educated young people in local and regional decision‑making. It provides a structured process where youth explore a policy question, develop recommendations, and present them directly to authorities, who commit to implementing and reporting back on the outcomes.