Child Sponsorship and Child Rights Workshop

1. Child Sponsorship and Child Rights Workshop 30-31 October 2012 Brussels

2. Expectations and Suggestions • Findways to combine childsponsorship and RBA. • Practicaltools to child participation in a new childsponsorship model. • Exchange of thoughts to create more awareness on the relationshipbetweenchildsponsorship and childrights. • Exchange of ideas to create alternative methods for organisingchildsponsorships. • See if we face similar challenges in sponsorshipprogramming and possiblyfind solutions. • Learnfromeachother about good and innovativesponsorshipprogramming. • Agree on some standards for qualitysponsorshipprogramming. • Continue to learn more on how to work in a childrights perspective. • Meetother organisations, learnfromeachother and getinspired to proceed good work and progress.

3. Expectations and Suggestions • Learn about challenges each of the organisations face in sponsorshipprogramming. • Learn in whatway organisations have addressedthese challenges. • Consider a platform for ongoing sharing about sponsorship. • Learn about monitoring of childrights in a childsponsorshipproject. • Balanced discussion about one-to-one sponsorshipmodels – how canchildrights and child participation take place withinthis model? • Exchange on differentsponsorshipmodels. • Analysis of benefits and points of attention for differentmodels. • Get a betterunderstanding of the rolechildsponsorshipplays in the participating organisations and to whatextentchildrights are a part of this. • Building up the EU-CORD network for childrightswork. Input fromdifferent organisations towards the theme.