Programme Directions | Programme Highlights

The Forum's work is geared towards producing a select range of high-visibility products on children's issues with a view to influencing public attitudes and policy and building the capacity of child-focused organizations. Four "pillars" will provide the framework - knowledge, advocacy, policy dialogue, and institution-building. The Forum will seek to promote and disseminate information and knowledge on grass-roots work being done by NGOs through complementary research and by building an internet-based, region-wide network of child-rights activists and knowledge institutions.

It will provide a forum for dialogue and discussion on issues affecting children. It will seek to investigate new and controversial issues. It will "put children 1st" in all aspects of its work.

Key Strategies of ACPF are:

• Share information on good practices and lessons learnt;
• Promote positive and can-do approaches to problems and issues;
• Carry out fact and evidence-based advocacy work;
• Strengthen alliances and strategic partnerships;
• Develop and formulate policy options;
• Promote children's participation in all its work;
• Build the technical capacity of civil society and public institutions in research, policy and programme development;
• Initiate strategic operation interventions and flagship activities that will promote action.

The programmes and projects of ACPF that are implemented within the pan-African context are:

Programme 1: Child Voice Network

Programme 2: Children an the Law

Programme 3: Children under Especially Difficult Circumstances

Programme 4: Children and Violence

Programme 5: Economic Policy and Children Rights

Programme 6: Policy Dialogue, Events and Publications

Programme 7: Children and Social Behavior

Programme 8: Children and the Environment