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Section 4Day 3: Championing Rights for Children........................................................................................................................45Role-play: Three Phases in the Life of Nomatter..........................................................................................................45Making Sense of Children's Legislation..........................................................................................................................48Strategies for Strengthening Children's Legislation..................................................................................................49A Rights-based Approach to Children: Community Mapping...............................................................................52Communication Wheel: Ensuring HIV Prevention,Treatment and Care ............................................................55Defining Best Approaches to Modern and Traditional Cultural Practices.........................................................56Assessing Children's Rights in the Community: The PPP Scorecard....................................................................58Section 4Day 4: A Participatory Approach Towards Child Rights............................................................................................63Testing the PPP Scoreboard................................................................................................................................................63Community-based Solutions to Child Rights...............................................................................................................64Stepping Towards Environmental Change ...................................................................................................................65Ensuring That Children’s Rights are Protected.............................................................................................................68HandoutsHandout 1: Children, culture and HIV..............................................................................................................................19Handout 2: Upholding children's right to identity and education ......................................................................40REFERENCESAppendiCESAppendix 1: The Kelleher Model............................................................................................................................72Appendix 2: Proposed Programme for a Four-day Training Workshop ............................................................. 73Appendix 3: How to Write a Will ...........................................................................................................................75Appendix 4: Participant Feedback and Evaluation Form ....................................................................................... 77Appendix 5: Children's Policies and Laws .................................................................................................................... 79Appendix 6: How to Conduct Effective Role-plays ................................................................................................... 82Appendix 7: Useful Contacts .................................................................................................................................83Appendix 8: Workshop Energisers and Games...................................................................................................84Handbook on Child Rights and Culture
SECTION 1About the handbookThe aim of the handbookThe aim of this handbook is to ensure that children's rights are known, recognised and respected incommunities, especially in situations where they may be compromised by cultural and traditionalpractices - or when their realisation is threatened by the circumstances of the HIV epidemic. It offerstrainers,CBVs and others working with,or on behalf of,children the knowledge and skills to integrate childrights into their programme work, so that they become effective trainers or advocates for child rights.Wealso want participants to become good communicators, so that they can encourage children to expresstheir own needs, and also to represent those needs accurately to people at the highest levels ofgovernment and in the regional and international communities.This handbook provides methods for upholding positive cultural practices,as well as opportunities to revisitharmful cultural ways. It aims to develop positive approaches to sensitive issues within thecommunity,such as child abuse and discrimination against young girls.We know about the dangers of HIVbut,because it is so linked to sex,blood and death,it is still taboo in our culture to speak about it.Section1Goal and objectivesThis handbook has been designed for use by trainers at all levels who recognise the need to respect childrights in the community, in the context of their culture and in relation to HIV and AIDS. It is guided by aseries of community dialogue meetings hosted by The Southern African HIV and AIDS InformationDissemination Service (<strong>SAfAIDS</strong>),with support from the Bernard van Leer Foundation.Trainees should beable to go back to their communities and actively advocate for, and support, child rights in theircommunities.Through training, this handbook offers a story of hope and empowerment for children. Using charactersthat Zimbabweans of all ethnic groups can relate to, it introduces a lively perspective on respectingchildren's rights in a cultural context by recognising and upholding existing laws and making them workfor children.After all,HIV is a cross cultural issue.Through participatory training, this five-part handbook takes you, and your trainees, on a journey thatexplores the level and extent of children's trials and triumphs in relation to rights, culture and HIV. In thefinal section, having thoroughly explored the risks and vulnerabilities of children in our community, wecreate a joint response to upholding children's rights. The training involves investigating culturalchallenges, and exploring ways of enhancing the child-friendliness of our culture, through communityaction,supported by relevant laws and policies in favour of children.This handbook contains lively activities that reflect the input and voices of the children who participatedin the community dialogues.The sections are supported by semi-fictional characters drawn from variousethnic groups, but truly representative of Zimbabwean custodians of culture, as well as contemporaryadult and child advocates for children's rights.What goals can you achieve by using this handbook?Gaining knowledge and understanding: This handbook provides knowledge and understanding of therights of the child,the cultural factors that either support or threaten these rights and how children can beprotected from the harmful impact of HIV.In using this handbook,we will:• Explore individual and community norms, beliefs, practices and ideologies in the larger socialcontext of HIV,and how individuals,the family and the community can contribute to change.• Examine ways of bringing about changes that uphold children’s rights,given the challenges of HIV.Handbook on Child Rights and Culture01
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APPENDICESAppendix 1. the kelleher
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DAY 3: CHAMPIONING RIGHTS FOR CHILD
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