Empowering Children as Peacebuilders: WV-Philippine’s Peacebuilding Initiative.

Empowering Children as Peacebuilders:

WV-Philippine’s Peacebuilding Initiative

Who is World Vision?

World Vision is a global Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

•100 countries worldwide

•7 regions

•18 National Offices in Asia

Sectors and Ministries:

EducationHealth and NutritionEconomic Resilience and Livelihood PeacebuildingHEA Advocacy

Peacebuilding Models and Initiatives

Implementing Countries

LebanonColombia KenyaCambodiaKoreaIndiaSri lankaPhilippines Indonesia

The Global Pax Net

Peacebuilding and Conflict Sensitivity Tools

Do No Harm11

Making Sense of Turbulent Contexts

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Project Models/Frameworks

Empowering Children as Peacebuilders (EcAP) Model

ECaP stands for Empowering Children as Peacebuilders. It is a WV initiative which aims to empower children as agents of transformed relationships in their families & community notwithstanding differences in ethnicity, belief, tradition, culture, faith and gender.

Contextualization of EcAP Model: Initiatives in the WV Partnership

WV-Cambodia

Peace Road Programme ( Using the Peace Road Curriculum developed by WV Cambodia in partnership with the MoEYs Curriculum department

WV-Philippines

EcAP (Empowering Children as Peacebuilders) EcAP (Empowering Children as Peacebuilders) thru developing Culture of Peace (CoP) thru developing Culture of Peace (CoP) ProgramProgram

Geographic:•Conflict Areas-Armed Conflict-Socio-cultural/religious/ethnic

Economic:* Poverty Argument (Causes of Trafficking, Child Labor & other issues affecting children

Economic:* Poverty Argument (Causes of Trafficking, Child Labor & other issues affecting children

Language Diversity:* 170 Dialects and languages

Language Diversity:* 170 Dialects and languages

Why EcAP in the Philippines?

LEGEND

Luzon

Visayas

Mindanao

Haiyan response

areas

97,768 registered children &

10, 784,242 people in

impact areas

97,768 registered children &

10, 784,242 people in

impact areas

34 province

s32 cities

34 province

s32 cities

47 ADPs6 PNS

47 ADPs6 PNS

The Contextualized EcAP Model

Components (EcAP Module)11

Understanding a Culture of Peace

Looking at History Understanding

Conflict Dialogue

•Culture of Peace•Do No Harm

•Culture of Peace•Do No Harm

The Contextualized EcAP Model

How are Children Engaged?

Children are key actors and players:

• Trainers Training for Children conducted by WVDF-Trained Child Leaders

• Child-Led Local Capacity Workshops

• Contextualization of EcAP Modules

Outcomes EcAP Model mainstreamed in 44 ADPs

Child-Led Peace Forum/Dialogues/Consultations conducted (national and local levels)

Participation to International Events (Example: On the 6th ASEAN Ministerial Conference on DRR in Bangkok Thailand)

National Level: Institutional

partnership with DepEd thru a signed MoA (Peacebuilding in Schools)

Outcomes

Local Levels: Interfaith/Inter-church groups Teachers as School-Based

Peace Coordinators PTAs/SMCs LGUs

EcAP Researches published and used by ADPs

- Children as Voices for Peace, - Children of Multi-Faith and Culture, - This is our Reality, this is our Story, - Conflict analysis Training for

Children/Youth: Considerations and Policy Options for WV

Lessons Learned

It is important to recognize that children have potentials, we just need to tap them and give them opportunity to lead

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Capacitating and transforming the values of children taught us adult, to be patient, simple, humble and creative

Partnering with children to transform the lives of other children is proven effective.

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Surprises

Conflict analysis done by children

were simple

but concrete

11 Children can lead other children in

taking responsibility

and accountabilit

y, they learned from each other

Creativity and

innovativeness seen

beyond expecta-tions by

the adults

22 33 Children are

effective advocates

of their own

concerns and issues

Children are

effective advocates

of their own

concerns and issues

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EcAP Video Documentation

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