Monitoring and evaluation

It’s easy to forget an important aspect of involving children: allowing them to provide feedback.

Thinking about ways in which you can receive feedback from the outset will help you to make the process better.

Here, we have collected some questions and resources to help you think about it.

How will you gather feedback?
  • What is the best and most inclusive way for you to collect feedback?
  • How can you ensure that children’s voices are being heard?
  • How can you ensure that children’s feedback is incorporated into your work?
  • Have you asked children about their preferred way of providing feedback?
Consider how child participation can be a recurrent aspects of your work
  • What are your colleague’s attitudes about child participation? 
  • What concrete steps can you take to ensure that child participation is more prioritised in your organisation?
  • What forms of child participation would enable sustainability?
  • Why would children want to participate longer-term?

Tools and resources

  1. Creative Ideas for Capturing the Voice of the Child
    Innovative Resources
    Innovative ideas for collecting feedback from children.
  2. An Example of a Child-Friendly Survey from ‘Together’, Scotland
    Together, Scottish alliance for children’s right’s
    Child-friendly feedback form.
  3. The Lundy Model in Action, St Oliver’s National School Killarney
    Dublin City University
    An example of the Lundy Model applied in the real world.
  4. Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluating Children’s Participation
    Save the Children
    10-step guide to help you undertake a participatory monitoring and evaluation (M&E) process, with children and other key stakeholders.
  5. Gathering Feedback and Listening to Young People – Challenges and Approaches
    The Blagrave Trust
    Methods for gathering feedback from children.
  6. Ungas Delaktighet
    outlining the quality criteria for youth participation. (Finnish and Swedish)