Knowledge exchange and impact: Growing up on the Streets
Content related to the story maps
- Learning on Harare’s streets under COVID-19 lockdown: making a story map with street youth - read about making the story map (open access)
- Pasha 88: Lockdown and young people living on the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe (Conversation Africa podcast).
- Young people living on Harare’s streets provide glimpses into life under COVID-19 lockdown The Conversation September 9, 2020.
- Blog: Centre for Research on Families and Relationships Blog: In the Shadow of a Pandemic: Harare's Street Youth Experience COVID-19 (3 August 2020).
Consultation for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on Children in Street Situations
- UN Consultation: 200 Growing up on the Streets participants in Harare, Zimbabwe; Accra, Ghana; Bukavu, DRC took part in focus groups on human rights, forming the Africa Consultation for the United Nations General Comment 21, on the Rights of Children in Street Situations (UNGC21)
- Africa Consultation Report for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on Children in Street Situations February – March 2016
- Award-winning Training Pack: Growing up on the Streets Knowledge Exchange Training Pack (Jan 2016).
- 2015 Briefing Paper 6: The Voices of Street Children and Youth: Knowledge Exchange in Three African Cities
- Submission to UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights ahead of country visit to Ghana
Award: The 2015 Market Research Society’s President’s Medal in recognition of its extraordinary contribution to impact.
UN Presentation: Project founder, the late Father Patrick Shanahan, presents to the United Nations Geneva – Rights of the Child
Briefing papers
2022
2018
- Building Assets on the Streets (Briefing Paper 14)
- Friendship on the Streets (Briefing Paper 13)
- The Rights of Street Children and Youth (Briefing Paper 12)
2017
2016
- Spirituality on the Streets (Briefing Paper 9)
- Health and Wellbeing of Street Children and Youth (Briefing Paper 8)
- Safe Movement in the City (Briefing Paper 7)
2015
- The Voices of Street Children and Youth: Knowledge Exchange in Three African Cities (Briefing Paper 6)
- Work and Earnings of Street Children and Youth (Briefing Paper 5)
- Accessing Food on the Street (Briefing Paper 4)