Chin

   

Children In Need Network

Research and Advocacy

CHIN recognises the inherent and fundamental value of advocacy as a tool for levering high returns on investment for its work in an environment where no single actor can make a significant difference to the lives of children and society at large.

Objectives:

  1. Policy Engagement: ‘To systematically and consistently engage government to adopt, review, amend, implement and enforce policies, practices, legislation and regulation on children’s rights’.
    For the purpose of this strategy, Policy Engagement is defined as ‘a set of activities to influence government policy, practices, legislation and regulation concerning the welfare and the rights of children in Zambia’.
  2. Civic Engagement: ‘to build the capacity of communities to participate in development processes that respond to the fulfillment of children’s rights.
    CHIN will work to cultivate civic responsibility in children, young people and their communities in order to make a difference in their civic life. We will develop a combination of knowledge skills, values and motivation to make that difference. We will do this by providing a safe space for communities to explore issues surrounding children’s rights that will trigger action and generate dynamic responses.
  3. Research: To undertake research work that will provide evidence for CHIN advocacy work.
    Governments often view with sceptism recommendations made by civil society because these are often not based on hard evidence. Setting a research agenda that strives to provide evidence for advocacy work, an agenda that provides new information, fills gaps or provides missing information is imperative if children’s rights are to be upheld