Resources List

Adolescent Development and Participation

(ADAP) Section
UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA)

Resources list – all modules

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Module 1: Setting the scene: Child rights

foundations
Sources
United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, New York, 5
December 1989.

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 12 (2009): The right of
the child to be heard, CRC/C/GC/12, 20 July 2009.

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 20 (2016) on the
Implementation of the Rights of the Child During Adolescence, CRC/C/GC/20, 6
December 2016.

Child Rights International Network, ‘CRC General Comments’,

<https://archive.crin.org/en/library/publications/crc-general-
comments.html?ID=8043&flag=report>, accessed 19 December 2022.

United Nations, Transforming Our World: The 2030 agenda for sustainable
development, General Assembly Resolution A/RES/70/1, United Nations, New York,
25 September 2015.

Children & Young People's Commissioner Scotland, ‘Children’s human rights:

UNCRC’, CYPCS, Edinburgh, Scotland, <www.cypcs.org.uk/rights/uncrc>, accessed
30 December 2022.

The Concerned for Working Children, ‘Makkala grama swaraj (Born with Rights)’,
CWC, Bangalore, India, Jan 2013, <https://youtu.be/zMLSUotpBYs>, accessed 30
December 2022.

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 25 (2021) on Children’s
Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment, CRC/C/GC/25, 2 March 2021.

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Module 2: UNICEF’s global participation

guidance: Engaged and Heard!
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund, Engaged and Heard! Guidelines on Adolescent
Participation and Civic Engagement, UNICEF, New York, July 2020.

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 12 (2009): The right of
the child to be heard, CRC/C/GC/12, 20 July 2009.

Module 3: The ASPIRE framework:

Benchmarks for planning and decision-making
with adolescents and young people
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, Claiming Citizenship:
Case studies of adolescents participating in governance in South Asia, UNICEF
ROSA, Kathmandu, March 2022.

Module 4: Essential attributes of institutions

and personnel for adolescent participatory
planning and decision-making
Sources
Dick, Bruce, et al., 'Review of the Evidence for Interventions to Increase Young
People's Use of Health Services in Developing Countries’, ch. 6 in Preventing
HIV/AIDS in Young People: A systematic review of the evidence from developing
countries, WHO Technical Report Series no. 938, edited by David A. Ross, Bruce
Dick & Jane Ferguson, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2006, pp. 151-204.

United Nations Children’s Fund, The Child-Friendly Schools Manual, UNICEF, New
York, March 2009.

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World Health Organization, Making Health Services Adolescent Friendly: Developing

national quality standards for adolescent-friendly health services, WHO, Geneva,
2012.

United Nations, Transforming Our World: The 2030 agenda for sustainable
development, General Assembly Resolution A/RES/70/1, United Nations, New York,
25 September 2015.

Module 5: Lenses of perception of adolescents

and young people in development planning
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund, ‘Applying a Rights-based Approach to Programming
with Adolescents’, in Engaged and Heard! Guidelines on Adolescent Participation
and Civic Engagement, UNICEF, New York, July 2020, p.9.

Module 6: Building intergenerational

relationships: The Safe City Initiative in
Madhya Pradesh, India
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, ‘Safe City Initiative
Madhya Pradesh India’, ch. 2 in Claiming Citizenship: Case studies of adolescents
participating in governance in South Asia, UNICEF ROSA, Kathmandu, March 2022,
pp. 15-47.

United Nations Children’s Fund, A Safe City for Children in Bhopal: Mapping with
children, UNICEF and Action for Children’s Environments, Bhopal and New Delhi,
India.

Module 7: Effective communication for intergenerational solidarity: No

additional resources

Module 8: Why adolescent voices matter: Examples from child protection and
employability programmes: No additional resources

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Module 9: Social policy mandates and

adolescent participation in Maharashtra, India
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, ‘Safe City Initiative
Madhya Pradesh India’, ch. 2 in Claiming Citizenship: Case studies of adolescents
participating in governance in South Asia, UNICEF ROSA, Kathmandu, March 2022,
pp. 49-73.

Module 10: Child-Friendly Local Governance

(CFLG) and adolescent participation in Nepal
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, ‘Safe City Initiative
Madhya Pradesh India’, ch. 2 in Claiming Citizenship: Case studies of adolescents
participating in governance in South Asia, UNICEF ROSA, Kathmandu, March 2022,
pp. 75-99.

United Nations Children’s Fund, Improving Lives for Children and Women in Nepal:
Decentralized action for children and women (DACAW), UNICEF and Government of
Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2007, <https://un.info.np/Net/NeoDocs/View/4643>,
accessed 30 December 2022.

Module 11: Defending our rights: Adolescent

participation in the judicial systems in
Karnataka, India
Sources
The Concerned for Working Children, Banned Aid, video, CWC, Bangalore, India,
October 2015, <https://youtu.be/lIzf9I3OvzM>, accessed 30 December 2022.

The Concerned for Working Children, The Need for Independent Representation for
Children in The Juvenile Justice System, September 2011, Bangalore, India.

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Resolution adopted by United Nations General Assembly, ‘United Nations Standard

Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules)’,
A/RES/40/33, 10 December 1985.

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 24 (2019) on Children’s
Rights in the Child Justice System, CRC/C/GC/24, 18 September 2019.

Module 12: Adolescent participation and engagement in the health systems of

Bangladesh and India: No additional resources

Module 13: Adolescent participation in

humanitarian action: Principles, approaches
and tools
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, Reimagining
Humanitarian Action in South Asia: Preliminary documentation of adolescent and
youth engagement policy and practice and related recommendations, UNICEF
ROSA, Kathmandu, Nepal, October 2022.

United Nations Children’s Fund, ‘Core Commitments for Children: Global standards
and principles’, <www.corecommitments.unicef.org/ccc-1-3>, accessed 19
December 2022.

Inter-Agency Standing Committee, With Us & For Us: Working with and for young
people in humanitarian and protracted crises, UNICEF and NRC for the Compact for
Young People in Humanitarian Action, 2020.

United Nations Children’s Fund Office of Emergency Programmes, Accountability to

Affected Populations: A handbook for UNICEF and partners, UNICEF EMPOS,
Geneva, June 2020.

United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, SParking Wellbeing:
A toolkit for adolescent-led enquiry during humanitarian response, UNICEF ROSA,
Kathmandu, Nepal, July 2021.

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United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, SParking Wellbeing:
Selected learnings from an adolescent-led engagement and enquiry during COVID-
19, UNICEF ROSA, Kathmandu, Nepal, July 2021.

Module 14: The furthest behind first: Planning

and decision-making with marginalized groups
Sources
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 20:
Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (art. 2, para. 2 of the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), E/C.12/GC/20,
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva, 2 July 2009.

United Nations Human Rights Committee, CCPR General Comment No. 18: Non-
discrimination, United Nations Human Rights Committee, Geneva, 10 November
1989.

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, General Comment No. 6 on

Equality and Non-Discrimination, CRPD/C/GC/6, Committee on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, 26 April 2018.

United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, New York, 5
December 1989.

United Nations, Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or

Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, General Assembly Resolution
A/RES/47/135, United Nations, New York, 18 December 1992.

United Nations Children’s Fund, ‘SOGIESC: Sexual orientation, gender identity,

gender expression and sex characteristics’, Glossary of Terms Related to Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion, UNICEF, New York, September 2022, pp. 54-61.

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Module 15: “Nothing for us without us”: The

Blind Youth Association advocates in Nepal
Sources
United Nations, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United
Nations, New York, 13 December 2006.

United Nations Children’s Fund, Seen, Counted, Included: Using data to shed light
on the well-being of children with disabilities, UNICEF, New York, 2021.

United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, New York, 5
December 1989.

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 9 (2006): The rights of
children with disabilities, CRC/C/GC/9, 27 February 2007.

United Nations, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United

Nations, New York, 13 December 2006.

United Nations, Transforming Our World: The 2030 agenda for sustainable
development, General Assembly Resolution A/RES/70/1, United Nations, New York,
25 September 2015.

United Nations Children’s Fund, Engaged and Heard! Guidelines on Adolescent

Participation and Civic Engagement, UNICEF, New York, July 2020.

Bhutan Centre for Media and Development, Youth Voice in Youth Matters (National
Youth Policy review process documentation), video, BCMD, Jul 2020,
<https://youtu.be/3vuFmnrQ-MY>, accessed 30 December 2022.

Jones, Nicola, Elizabeth Presler-Marshall and Maria Stavropoulou, Adolescents with

Disabilities: Enhancing resilience and delivering inclusive development, Gender and
Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE), July 2018.

An Inclusive City Built for ALL, video, National Institute of Urban Affairs, 2021,
<https://youtu.be/gApny7Tc-WU>, accessed 28 December 2022.

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Module 16: Claiming back dignity: Girls’ voices

on a harmful practice
Sources
United Nations, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, United Nations, New York, 18 December 1979.

United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, New York, 5
December 1989.

Government of Nepal, The National Penal (Code) Act 2017, GoN, October 2017,
pp.105-106.

United Nations, Summary of stakeholders' submissions on Nepal: Universal periodic

review, Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights A/HRC/WG.6/37/NPL/3, United Nations, Geneva, 5 November 2020.

Module 17: Defending and celebrating gender

and sexual diversity: Adolescents and young
people act for change
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund, ‘SOGIESC: Sexual orientation, gender identity,
gender expression and sex characteristics’, Glossary of Terms Related to Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion, UNICEF, New York, September 2022, pp. 54-61.

United Nations Children’s Fund, ‘Eliminating discrimination against children and

parents based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity’, Current Issue Paper No.
9, UNICEF, New York, November 2014.

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 15 (2013) on the Right
of the Child to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (art. 24),
CRC/C/GC/15, 17 April 2013.

O’Malley, Jeffrey, and Andreas Holzinger, Sexual and Gender Minorities and the
Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Development Programme, 2018.

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United Nations, Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Human
Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/RES/27/32, United Nations, Geneva, 2 October
2014.

United Nations, Human rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Human
Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/RES/17/19, United Nations, Geneva, 14 July
2011.

United Nations, Protection Against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual

Orientation and Gender Identity, Human Rights Council Resolution
A/HRC/RES/32/2, United Nations, Geneva, 30 June 2016.

Prantakatha, ‘Welcome to Prantakatha’, <www.prantakathaindia.org/home/>,

accessed 28 December 2022.

Mukherjee, Bappaditya, ‘SAYAN: Amplifying voices of South Asian LGBT millennial

community’, The Logical India, 1 September 2021,
<https://thelogicalindian.com/lgbtq/amplifying-voices-of-south-asian-lgbt-millennial-
community-30515>, accessed 28 December 2022.

National Human Rights Commission of India, Study on Human Rights of

Transgender as a Third Gender, NHRC, New Delhi, India, February 2017.

Yee, Heng Yeh, ‘LGBT Rights in South Asia: What next?’, Salzburg Global Seminar,
20 February 2019, accessed 28 December 2022.

Sharma, Gopal, ‘Bhutan Parliament Decriminalizes Homosexuality, to Delight of

Activists’, Reuters, 10 December 2020, accessed 28 December 2022.

United Nations Free & Equal, ‘Fact Sheet: International human rights law and sexual
orientation & gender identity’, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights, <www.unfe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/International-Human-
Rights-Law.pdf>, accessed 28 December 2022.

Purohit, Devadeep, ‘Bangladesh Govt Proposes Special Tax Incentives for

Transgenders’, The Telegraph Online, 9 June 2021,
<www.telegraphindia.com/world/bangladesh-govt-proposes-special-tax-incentives-
for-transgender-persons/cid/1818222>, accessed 28 December 2022.

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Module 18: Challenging for change: Enabling

all voices
Sources
Roy, Deepankar, ‘Managing dissent within organisations’, India Development
Review, 10 December 2019, <https://idronline.org/managing-dissent-within-
organisations>, accessed 26 February 2022.

Cornel West: Speaking truth to power, video, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

School of Architecture & Planning, 2018, <https://youtu.be/-Bc6TRjptKI>, accessed
28 December 2022.

O’Brien, Karen, Elin Selboe and Bronwyn M. Hayward, ‘Exploring Youth Activism on
Climate Change: Dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent’, Ecology and Society,
vol. 23, no. 3, art. 42, 2018, <https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10287-230342>, accessed
20 July 2022.

Patel, Jwalin, ‘The Role of Dissent, Conflict, and Open Dialogue in Learning to Live
Together Harmoniously’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 23 November 2021,
<https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2006057>, accessed 10 June 2022.

Banned Aid, video, The Concerned for Working Children, 2015,

<https://youtu.be/lIzf9I3OvzM>, accessed 28 December 2022.

United Nations Children’s Fund, Youth Advocacy Guide, UNICEF, New York, 2022.

Module 19: Responsibility and accountability

towards adolescents and their aspirations
Sources
Nguyen, Lena Thu Phuong, ‘Child-responsive Accountability: Lessons from social
accountability’, Innocenti Working Papers, no. 2013-04, Innocenti Working Papers,
United Nations Children’s Fund Office of Research, Florence, Italy, April 2013.

Lansdown, Gerison, The Evolving Capacities of the Child, United Nations Children’s
Fund Office of Research and Save the Children, Florence, Italy and Stockholm,
Sweden, 2005.

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United Nations Development Programme, Fostering social accountability: A

guidance note, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, Oslo, Norway, 2010.

United Nations Children’s Fund, On an Equal Footing: Children as partners in

governance, UNICEF, Government of Maharashtra Department of Rural
Development and Panchayati Raj and Maharashtra State Commission for Protection
of Child Rights, Mumbai, India, February 2018.

United Nations Children’s Fund, In the Right Direction: Aiding child friendly
Panchayats, UNICEF, Government of Maharashtra Department of Rural
Development and Panchayati Raj and Maharashtra State Commission for Protection
of Child Rights, Mumbai, India, February 2018.

United Nations Children’s Fund, Triggering Change: Handbook for the village
facilitator, UNICEF, Government of Maharashtra Department of Rural Development
and Panchayati Raj and Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child
Rights, Mumbai, India, February 2018.

United Nations Children’s Fund Office of Emergency Programmes, Accountability to

Affected Populations: A handbook for UNICEF and partners, UNICEF EMPOS,
Geneva, June 2020.

Module 20: Creating and disseminating

adolescent-friendly information
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund, The adolescent brain: A second window of
opportunity, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence, Italy, 2017, pp. 11, 12, 13, 30.

lumencandela, ‘Module 7 Adolescence: Cognitive development’,

<https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-fmcc-childhood-
psychology/chapter/cognitive-development-
7/#:~:text=During%20adolescence%2C%20teenagers%20move%20beyond,stage%
20as%20formal%20operational%20thought>, accessed 28 December 2022.

United Nations Children’s Fund, In My Defense: An introduction to laws for children,

UNICEF, Government of Maharashtra Department of Rural Development and

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Panchayati Raj and Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights,
Mumbai, India, February 2018.

United Nations Children’s Fund, We, the Children: The making of a child friendly
Panchayat, UNICEF, Government of Maharashtra Department of Rural Development
and Panchayati Raj and Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child
Rights, Mumbai, India, February 2018.

European Commission, Creating child-friendly versions of written documents: A

guide, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, September 2012.

ChildFund Alliance, ‘Developing Child-friendly Versions of Laws and Policies’, mod.

7 in Child-Friendly Accountability Toolbox, ChildFund Alliance, November 2017.

Module 21: Resourcing adolescent priorities:

Ensuring adolescent participation in budgeting
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund, On an Equal Footing: Children as partners in
governance, UNICEF, Government of Maharashtra Department of Rural
Development and Panchayati Raj and Maharashtra State Commission for Protection
of Child Rights, Mumbai, India, February 2018, pp. 46-47.

Generation Unlimited, Youth Challenge Facilitation Guide, United Nations Children’s

Fund, New York, pp. 24-28.

Commonwealth Secretariat, ‘Case Study Theme 4: Youth budgets – Ghana and

Uganda’, ch. 24 in Youth Mainstreaming in Development Planning: Transforming
young lives, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 2017.

Coalition of Youth Development Organizations in Ghana, An Analysis of the 2012

Budget and Youth Development in Ghana, COYDOG, Accra, Ghana, February 2012.

Bani-Afudego, Charlotte, George Cobbinah Yorke and Anastasie Ablavi Koudoh,

‘Seeing from Our Perspectives: Youth budget advocacy in Ghana’, ch. 12 in
Participatory Learning and Action, no. 64, edited by Jessica Greenhalf, Rosemary
McGee, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, December
2011, pp. 143-152.

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Marshall, Chelsea, Laura Lundy and Karen Orr, ‘Case study - Croatia: Embedding
participatory practice’, sect. 3 in Child-Participatory Budgeting: A review of global
practice, Plan International, 2016, pp. 25-28.

Marshall, Chelsea, Laura Lundy and Karen Orr, ‘Case Study: Croatia – embedding
participatory practice’, sect. 3 in Child-Participatory Budgeting: A review of global
practice, Plan International, 2016, pp. 25-28.

Save the Children, Budget for Children Analysis: A beginner’s guide, Save the
Children and HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, 2010.

Module 22: Measuring results with

adolescents: Promoting adolescent
participation in monitoring and evaluation
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund, Adolescent participation in UNICEF monitoring and
evaluation, New York, October 2019.

Government of Nepal, Child Friendly Local Governance: National strategy and

operational guideline-2011, GoN, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2011.

The Commonwealth Youth Programme, ‘How Are We Faring as a Youth Club:

TATVA analysis?’ ch. 3.5 in Co-Creating Youth Spaces: A practice based guide for
youth facilitators, The Commonwealth Youth Programme and Pravah, London and
New Delhi, 2022.

Lansdown, Gerison, and Claire O’Kane, A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating
Children’s Participation: Introduction (Booklet 1), Save the Children, London, 2014.

Lansdown, Gerison, and Claire O’Kane, A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating
Children’s Participation: Measuring the creation of a participatory and respectful
environment for children (Booklet 2), Save the Children, London, 2014.

Lansdown, Gerison, and Claire O’Kane, A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating
Children’s Participation: How to measure the scope, quality and outcomes of
children’s participation (Booklet 3), Save the Children, London, 2014.

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Lansdown, Gerison, and Claire O’Kane, A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating
Children’s Participation: A 10-step guide to monitoring and evaluating children’s
participation (Booklet 4), Save the Children, London, 2014.

Lansdown, Gerison, and Claire O’Kane, A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating
Children’s Participation: Tools for monitoring and evaluating children’s participation
(Booklet 5), Save the Children, London, 2014.

Lansdown, Gerison, and Claire O’Kane, A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating
Children’s Participation: Children and young people’s experiences, advice and
recommendations (Booklet 6), Save the Children, London, 2014.

Davies, Rick, and Jess Dart, The Most Significant Change (MSC) Technique: A
guide to its use, April 2005.

Module 23: Implementing safeguarding

practices during participation
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund, Policy on Conduct Promoting the Protection and
Safeguarding of Children, UNICEF, New York, July 2016.

United Nations Children’s Fund, ‘A Risk Assessment Tool and Additional Guidance
to Enhance Safeguarding’, app. 10 in Engaged and Heard! Guidelines on Adolescent
Participation and Civic Engagement, UNICEF, New York, July 2020, pp. 59-61.

United Nations Children’s Fund, ‘Core Commitments for Children: Global standards
and principles’, <www.corecommitments.unicef.org/ccc-1-3>, accessed 19
December 2022.

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 14 (2013) on the Right
of the Child to Have His or Her Best Interests Taken as Primary Consideration (art.
3, para. 1), CRC/C/GC/14, 29 May 2013, p.11.

United Nations Children’s Fund, ‘Ethical reporting guidelines: Key principles for
responsible reporting on children and young people’, UNICEF Press Centre,
<www.unicef.org/media/reporting-

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guidelines#:~:text=Guidelines%20for%20interviewing%20children,and%20grief%20fr
om%20traumatic%20events.>, accessed 30 December 2022.

United Nations Children’s Fund Office of Research, Child Safety Online: global
challenges and strategies (technical report), Florence, May 2012.

Module 24: National policy compacts between

young people and the state: Participatory
youth policy in Bhutan. Course Project.
Sources
United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, ‘Adolescent and
Youth Participatory Review of the National Youth Policy Bhutan’, ch. 5 in Claiming
Citizenship: Case studies of adolescents participating in governance in South Asia,
UNICEF ROSA, Kathmandu, March 2022, pp. 101-123.

Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy, Youth Voices: Youth Matters, BCMD,
Thimpu, 30 December 2020.

Commonwealth Secretariat, Youth Mainstreaming in Development Planning:

Transforming young lives, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 2017.

Module 25: Taking action on adolescent participation: No additional resources

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