CERG NYC
The overall goal of the Child Friendly Cities and Communities (CFC) Assessment and Monitoring Project is to find ways to support communities and municipal governments to improve the living conditions of children through the development of new participatory methods for collecting data with children of all ages. This project is designed to raise the quality of planning […]
July 2012, The Hague, The Netherlands Selim Iltus, Research and Evaluation Officer of the Bernard van Leer Foundation published the article, “Recognising the importance of the living conditions children grow up in”. The articles in this edition of Early Childhood Matters (Living Conditions: The Influence on Young Children’s Health) consider why most people have yet to realise the strong link between […]
13 June 13 2012, New York City Pamela Wridt, Co-Director of CERG talks with Equity for Children about her views on children and public policy, specifically in the city policy planning and evaluation process (see the brief interview by clicking here). This interview was conducted after the symposium ‘Children in an Urban World‘ that took place on March […]
This project involved the adaptation of the Child Friendly Communities Assessment Toolkit for the design of child friendly schools in emergency situations working in partnership with the Education Section of UNICEF from 2011-2012. This project fills a significant gap in knowledge on children’s own perspectives about the quality of their education in emergency contexts. It […]
30 March 2012, New York City Pamela Wridt, Co-Director of CERG, and Carlos Vasquez, UNICEF Education Specialist, speak with UNICEF’s podcast moderator, Femi Oke, about education, urbanization and child friendly cities. Their talk examines the importance of listening to children’s voices in the planning and design of communities, schools and cities. Hear the featured podcast through UNICEF’s website […]
February 2012, New York City CERG researchers Roger Hart, Sheridan Bartlett and Pamela Wridt contributed to UNICEF’s flagship report – The State of the World’s Children Report 2012, entitled Children in an Urban World.
Our work in this area is related to our understanding of children’s development in relation to qualities of the physical environment and to our knowledge of effective participatory strategies for supporting residents, including children and youth, in community development. A significant portion of this overseas work has been carried out in collaboration with the Human […]
CERG has an overarching commitment to the use of social science research in helping to achieve a more just world for children. It is for this reason that over the past two decades we have used United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as a guiding document for our research priorities. Our research […]
Organizing Ourselves: The Article 15 Project is a research and development collaboration established in 2011 between CERG, World Vision, Save the Children, UNICEF and Childwatch International. It focuses on Article 15 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – children’s right to meet with others, and to join or form associations. International […]
