This training manual provides information and training activities for a training workshop during which participants learn how to use the Child to Child approach. In particular, this manual focuses on involving children in Disaster Risk Management and Reduction.

When the Ebola outbreak halted all educational activities in Sierra Leone in December 2014, we commissioned an award-winning radio production team to produce the radio educational series Pikin to Pikin Tok. The project ended in 2016 and we can now share the final evaluation, written by the Institute for Development (IfD).

Hearing All Voices was designed to promote resilience and meaningful student engagement amongst MARS and NEET pupils across a range of London based secondary schools and FE colleges. This offers insight into what can happen when there is a radical shift in the relationships between adults and young people, a shift which disrupts the traditional power dynamics typically found in educational settings.

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Part of the Healthy Schools Initiative, the Pimlico School implemented a Child to Child project early 2006 to increase young people’s participation in health sessions. The project had an overwhelmingly positive impact on the students participating in the project, on the school, and on the facilitators.

In 2011 Child to Child initiated a pilot project ‘A participatory action-based approach to empower and integrate marginalised pupils’ in South London, which involved a series of weekly child-to-child activities for refugee and asylum-seeking children. This evaluation report shows that the project outcomes have been achieved; pupils have improved their language, communication and life skills, along with their engagement with the school and community.

The Pikin to Pikin Tok education through radio project has been recognised by the UN Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) for its transformative impact on girls’ education, and the way in which gender issues are addressed in communities in post-Ebola Sierra Leone.

This case study was commissioned to document how effectively radio was used as a means to deliver:

• early years and life skills educational content
• psychosocial support to address the range of issues affecting children and young people impacted by Ebola.

The study was conducted by researchers from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Pikin to Pikin Movement and Child to Child. Findings include powerful examples of how messages on issues from teen pregnancy to hand-washing were relayed and retained, and how learning from the Story Time and Under the Mango Tree programmes was linked to the real lives of children.