Our consultations with children
Highlighting children’s priorities for the European Parliament elections in 2024
Ahead of the 2024 European Parliament elections, we joined forces with UNICEF, Eurochild, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages, and Child Fund Alliance to ensure that children have a voice in setting the priorities for the newly elected European Union leadership. In collaboration with a dedicated Child Advisory Board, we conducted an EU-wide consultation involving over 9,000 children to understand their most pressing concerns today.
The final report ‘Our Rights. Our Future. The Europe We Want.’, children share the findings from the EU wide consultations and their recommendations to policymakers within the EU and Member States. The children's request is straightforward: they urge decision-makers to take action to enhance children’s lives, here and now.
All children have the right to play, but often adults forget how important it is.
We want to change this. That is why we are supporting a global alliance of organisations and businesses advocating for play, and making sure children have a voice in shaping what a more playful future looks like. Together with children, we are calling for a global recognition of play.
The children and young people’s Call to Action, based on online consultations and focus group discussions with more than 10,000 children globally, provides recommendations to the UN, governments, civil society organisations, parents, and businesses on how they can translate children’s right to play into concrete and meaningful initiatives every day.
This is a powerful example of how child-friendly governance can enable children and young people to identify not only barriers to the realisation of their rights but, more importantly, practical, easy-to-implement, and cost-efficient solutions to overcoming these barriers.
The Power of Play
Children inform the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Together with the Spanish Ministry of Social Affairs and Agenda 2030, UNICEF Spain, and Plataforma de Infancia, we ran a consultation with children across the European Union to ensure that their rights, concerns, and priorities inform the ongoing Spanish presidency of the European Union. We worked together with an Advisory Group of children from Europe to shape the consultations.
The final report, prepared together with children, highlights that children in Europe are concerned about many issues - but they also want to work together with adults to find solutions.
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