Child Friendly Places is an approach for integrating children’s rights into local development initiatives and educational programs through a participatory, intergenerational and child friendly assessment and planning methodology that empowers communities to improve their local conditions and environments with children, adolescents, families, educators, service providers and decision makers.

Case Studies

This map provides links to research-based case studies of the Child Friendly Places approach in more than 35 countries. Learn more about the variety of contexts in which the methodology has been applied to improve outcomes for children and adolescents.

Research and Evaluation

Explore research studies and evaluation publications on the Child Friendly Places methodology in practice.

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Theory of Change

Understand the logic for integrating the methodology into initiatives for children and adolescents and the potential outcomes.

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Facilitator Guides and Tools

Download guides to implement the participatory methodology with service providers and adolescents as facilitators.

CFC Community Assessment Guide (English)
CFC Community Assessment Guide (Spanish)
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Indicator Databanks

Download and explore a variety of indicator databanks to identify locally specific survey items for your own community assessment process.

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