The IFRC PGI Global Network has been launched!

The pilot IFRC and Sesame Workshop play-based assessment tool of children’s wellbeing is designed to engage young children, ages 4-8 years, and families as part of assessments in emergency or non-emergency settings.

Children often represent a significant, or even a majority, of the people affected by disasters and other crises. However, the needs of young children are rarely assessed directly with children, and especially those from marginalized backgrounds. And although every child has the right to participate in decisions that affect them, young children rarely have opportunities to have their voices heard in a meaningful way.

Without appropriate child participation, humanitarian programming is inherently ineffective because it does not draw on the perspectives or needs and capacities of children and their families.