What is The Article 15 Project? The Article 15 project is a new
long-term research and development collaboration between
WorldVision, Save the Children Norway, UNICEF and Childwatch
International and coordinated by the Children’s Environments
Research Group (CERG) of the City University of New York. In
recent years, international child-serving non-government
organizations have offered increasing support to children’s
clubs or “child-led groups” because they have found them to be
an excellent means of fulfilling children’s rights for
protection and development in an authentic participatory manner.
Many of the new kinds of children’s groups that have emerged in
various nations since the adoption of the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child are more deeply participatory than
children’s groups have hitherto been, because they are built
from a recognition of the importance of children knowing their
rights and of participating centrally in the execution of their
right to protection and to development. However, t