Empowering
Children as
Peacebuilders:
WV-Philippine’s
Peacebuilding
Initiative
Who is World Vision?
•100 countries worldwide
•7 regions
•18 National Offices in Asia
Sectors and Ministries:
Education
Health and Nutrition
Economic Resilience and
Livelihood
 Peacebuilding
HEA
Advocacy
World Vision is a global
Christian relief,
development and
advocacy organisation
dedicated to working with
children, families and
communities to overcome
poverty and injustice.
World Vision serves all
people, regardless of
religion, race, ethnicity, or
gender.
Peacebuilding Models and Initiatives
Implementing Countries
Lebanon
Colombia
 Kenya
Cambodia
Korea
India
Sri lanka
Philippines
 Indonesia
The Global Pax Net
Peacebuilding and Conflict Sensitivity Tools
1
Do No Harm
2
Making Sense of Turbulent Contexts
Project Models/Frameworks
Empowering Children as Peacebuilders (EcAP)
Model
ECaP stands for Empowering Children as
Peacebuilders. It is a WV initiative which
aims to empower children as agents of
transformed relationships in their families &
community notwithstanding differences in
ethnicity, belief, tradition, culture, faith and
gender.
Contextualization of EcAP Model:
Initiatives in the WV Partnership
WV-Cambodia
Peace Road Programme ( Using the Peace Road
Curriculum developed by WV Cambodia in partnership with
the MoEYs Curriculum department
WV-Philippines
EcAP (Empowering Children as Peacebuilders)
thru developing Culture of Peace (CoP)
Program
Why EcAP in the Philippines?
34
provinces
32 cities
47 ADPs
6 PNS
97,768
registered
children &
10, 784,242
people in
impact areas
Geographic:
•Conflict Areas
-Armed Conflict
-Sociocultural/religious/ethnic
Economic:
* Poverty
Argument (Causes
of Trafficking,
Child Labor &
other issues
affecting children
LEGEND
Luzon
Visayas
Mindanao
Haiyan response
areas
Language
Diversity:
* 170 Dialects and
languages
The Contextualized EcAP Model
1
Components (EcAP Module)
•Culture of Peace
•Do No Harm
 Understanding a
Culture of Peace
 Looking at History
 Understanding Conflict
 Dialogue
The Contextualized EcAP Model
How are Children Engaged?
Children are key actors and
players:
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•
•
Trainers Training for
Children conducted by
WVDF-Trained Child
Leaders
Child-Led Local Capacity
Workshops
Contextualization of
EcAP Modules
Outcomes
 EcAP Model mainstreamed
in 44 ADPs
 Child-Led Peace
Forum/Dialogues/Consultati
ons conducted (national and
local levels)
 Participation to International
Events (Example: On the 6th
ASEAN Ministerial
Conference on DRR in
Bangkok Thailand)
National Level:
 Institutional partnership with
DepEd thru a signed MoA
(Peacebuilding in Schools)
Outcomes
Local Levels:
 Interfaith/Inter-church groups
 Teachers as School-Based
Peace Coordinators
 PTAs/SMCs
 LGUs
 EcAP Researches published and
used by ADPs
- Children as Voices for Peace,
- Children of Multi-Faith and Culture,
- This is our Reality, this is our Story,
- Conflict analysis Training for
Children/Youth: Considerations and
Policy Options for WV
Lessons Learned
1
It is important to recognize that children have potentials,
we just need to tap them and give them opportunity to
lead
2
Capacitating and transforming the values of children
taught us adult, to be patient, simple, humble and creative
3
Partnering with children to transform the lives of other
children is proven effective.
Surprises
1 Conflict
analysis
done by
children
were
simple
but
concrete
2
Children can
lead other
children in
taking
responsibility
and
accountabilit
y, they
learned from
each other
3
Creativity
and
innovative
ness seen
beyond
expectations by
the adults
4
Children
are
effective
advocates
of their
own
concerns
and issues
EcAP Video Documentation
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