PROMOTING AND PROTECTING CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

General objective: To create friendly and non-violent environments for children in Kosovo schools through targeted actions of civil society organizations and local communities to promote children’s rights. Specific objectives: Empower local communities to improve the measure of child protection in schools through raising awareness, mediation and peaceful conflict resolution.

Activities:

• Establish an online platform for raising awareness about the rights of the child and measures for their protection.
• Developing information materials for children, parents, teachers and the general public.
• Organizing the media competition for the best article on the rights of the child.
• Organize the Regional Conference on the Rights of the Child.
• The choice of 10 local NGOs to work with 40 rural schools.
• Organizing trainings on child rights and peer mediation for NGOs, children, parents and teachers.
• Organizing study visits for NGOs and school representatives in Peer and Mediation Clubs in Macedonia and Albania.
• Monitoring and assisting local NGOs in support of schools to implement child protection policies.
• Collecting examples of best practices from target schools and publishing them.

Beneficiaries:

1. 15,000 pupils from 40 primary and lower secondary schools
2. Their parents
3. About 1,000 teachers from the 40 selected schools
4. 10 Non-Governmental Organizations
5. Community at large

Implementers: Kosovo Education Center (KEC) & Forum ZFD