A SOCIAL LABORATORY TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE-SHARING AND INNOVATION

This year, the PRIDE project launched its Social Lab. It's a community space where partner organisations can share ideas and best practices, and discuss opportunities for collaboration and learning. By bringing civil society and state institutions together, it aims to mobilise key child protection actors around common issues. Ultimately, the goal is to foster innovative solutions and contribute to a world in which all children can exercise their rights.

The initial workshops of the Social Lab aimed to forge ties between the participating organisations. The first collaborative effort involved an analysis of the major child rights issues in each country, with a view to identifying common problems and then defining clear objectives for change. The partners from each country agreed on which priority themes the Social Lab should address to create an environment in which the country's children are able to exercise their rights and live free of violence. These themes included the promotion of children's rights and participation, sexual and reproductive education, gender equality, justice for children and fight against child labour, sexual and gender-based violence.

Social Laboratory workshops respectively, from top to bottom, in Dakar, Senegal (March 2022), Colombia (November 2021) and Peru (January 2021).

The next step will be to develop the innovative solutions, tools and synergies needed to drive change.

A STORY OF CHANGE: NEW DUAL-DIPLOMA PROGRAMME

COMETA and CHS Alternativo, PRIDE's two partner organisations in Peru, have joined forces and developed a specialised training programme on the criminological, legal and social aspects of sexual abuse and violence from a gender perspective. Developed with state and academic support, this training course will be given to 500 child protection professionals in Peru.

This collaboration demonstrates PRIDE's ability to foster national collaboration beyond the actions undertaken.