empowering children as peacebuilders: wv-philippine’s peacebuilding initiative
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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
THANK YOU!