Should we not be getting some kids to give us a hand? My 12 year old nephew
is pretty savvy about websites, and I am sure if we look around us we could
find loads more such.



Priyanthi



Priyanthi Fernando

Executive Secretary/Team Leader

International Forum for Rural Transport and Development(IFRTD)

113 Spitfire Studios

63-71 Collier Street

London N1 9BE

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 20 7713 6699

Fax: +44 20 7713 8290

Web: www.ifrtd.org



The IFRTD is a global network of individuals and organisations working
together towards improved access and mobility for the rural poor in
developing countries



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From: Eric Britton (personal) [mailto:mail@...]
Sent: 18 January 2005 16:41
To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com
Cc: priyanthi.fernando@...; childs-play@yahoogroups.com
Subject: children on the move



This email has just come in from our wonderful able colleauges at the
International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), addressed
to our Children on the Move program (which for the moment is sadly not
nearly as active a one wouel like. Problem of time and resources, and
neither of importance nor lack of desire on our part to do this and do it
well.)



I was sure that a number of you would wish to know about their program, and
perhaps you may have some ideas or support for them as well. If so, it would
be kind if you would post them both to this list and to
childs-play@yahoogroups.com as well.



Finally, if anyone out there would like to give us a hand in getting the
Children on the Move program at
http://www.ecoplan.org/children/index-bis.htm into gear, that would be
wonderful. I think that we have a sound base here, but we will need tome
help to build on it and make it work as well as we are managing in others of
the areas of sustainable development and social justice that we are
addressing here.



Kind regards,



Eric Britton





-----Original Message-----
From: Priyanthi [mailto:priyanthi.fernando@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 5:18 PM
To: childs-play@...
Subject: children on the move



Dear friends



I have just come across this website, and thought that you might be
interested in an initiative that I have been really excited to be part of.



Initiated by Dr Gina Porter and colleagues from the University of Durham,
supported by DFID, and carried out in collaboration with the Concerned for
Working Children in Bangalore, the South African National Forum Group of the
IFRTD and its host organisation the CSIR and the University of Cape Coast,
Ghana, the programme to improve policy on children's mobility and access
through the development of a participatory child-centred field methodology
aims to empower children to collect and use information about their own
transport needs.



The Concerned for Working Children (CWC), who have been working with
children in Karnataka for many years, demonstrated to us the importance of
not just making child-friendly decisions, but actually allowing children to
participate in the decisions that affect their lives. CWC point out that
this is their right, given to them by the UN Convention of the Rights of the
Child, to which most national governments have signed up to. CWC facilitated
a workshop with 29 children from three villages in Karnataka, where, over
five days, the children used their knowledge of their transport problems to
develop a research framework and pilot test three tools for conducting
research into the problems.



These three tools, a transect walk, focus group discussions and mapping
access and mobility for different children were field tested by the children
in one panchayat. CWC will continue to work with the children, and will
also help colleagues in Ghana and South Africa to replicate the process.



* More information about the project can be obtained from Dr Gina
Porter r.e.porter@...
* An overview of the workshop can also be found on
www.ifrtd.org/new/news/full.php



I think there is an exciting opportunity for there to be a link between the
Children on the Move work, and the work described above. I am not sure how
many children are actually involved in Children on the Move (I found it a
little difficult to navigate the site), but there is considerable room to
involve kids both from the developed and developing world in interacting
through the internet and discussing their mobility problems or sharing
experiences. I am copying this to my colleagues so we can begin to move
this idea forward.



Best wishes



Priyanthi





Priyanthi Fernando

Executive Secretary/Team Leader

International Forum for Rural Transport and Development(IFRTD)

113 Spitfire Studios

63-71 Collier Street

London N1 9BE

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 20 7713 6699

Fax: +44 20 7713 8290

Web: www.ifrtd.org



The IFRTD is a global network of individuals and organisations working
together towards improved access and mobility for the rural poor in
developing countries



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