TY - JOUR
T1 - Working with children as stakeholders in development: the challenges of organisational change
AU - Hart, Jason
AU - Paludan, Marianne Bo
AU - Steffen, Lene
AU - O'Donoghue, Geoff
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article considers the challenges of promoting children's participation in development programming. It argues against the tendency to see the main obstacle to achieving this aim as technical. Instead it explores the institutional dimensions of change that may be required. The experience of a four-year process of training and organisational review within Save the Children Denmark provides the substance for reflection about the kinds of cultural and structural change that are implicated in enabling a development organisation to become capable of engaging young people as stakeholders in a meaningful and sustainable manner.
AB - This article considers the challenges of promoting children's participation in development programming. It argues against the tendency to see the main obstacle to achieving this aim as technical. Instead it explores the institutional dimensions of change that may be required. The experience of a four-year process of training and organisational review within Save the Children Denmark provides the substance for reflection about the kinds of cultural and structural change that are implicated in enabling a development organisation to become capable of engaging young people as stakeholders in a meaningful and sustainable manner.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79957558433&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2011.558066
U2 - 10.1080/09614524.2011.558066
DO - 10.1080/09614524.2011.558066
M3 - Article
SN - 0961-4524
VL - 21
SP - 330
EP - 342
JO - Development in Practice
JF - Development in Practice
IS - 3
ER -