relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4709/
title: Child-friendly city for all? From bookshelf to reality: a comparative study about the results of guidelines for child participation
creator: Ebel, Tabea
description: Child participation (CP) is part of children's right to the city, a right to be implemented by all UN member states. CP is a  challenge to implement. Different theories on how to create meaningful CP have led to similar  interpretations with different checklists.  Member cities of UNICEF's child friendly cities initiative (CFCI) have committed to creating child friendly cities (CFC’s) with children. This study analyses  whether the criteria for meaningful CP and, more broadly, for fostering a participatory culture (PC) are being realised. This  study’s checklist is based on two popular concepts of CP, Hart’s ladder of CP and the Lundy model,  and applied to the cases.  The case study areas include a non-European, Central European, Western European, Schengen,  American and Asian perspective of outstanding city identities to highlight differences between  approaches based on international and national guidelines.  This case study highlights lack of available information, trends in communication and measures as  well as a gap between identity and ambitions of cities and their efforts to realize those. It concludes  the ongoing efforts do not create PC and recommends cooperation, revising checklists and  evaluation tools and research regarding the abilities of children in response.
date: 2024
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4709/1/Pre-Master-Thesis-S5707331.pdf
identifier:   Ebel, Tabea  (2024) Child-friendly city for all? From bookshelf to reality: a comparative study about the results of guidelines for child participation.  Pre-master thesis.