Child Friendly Spaces Toolkit

Child Friendly Spaces are one of Save the Children’s key programmatic interventions for protecting children from physical and psychosocial distress in the wake of conflict and crisis situations. Staff members have access to a toolkit that provides them with comprehensive resources and guidelines for establishing these spaces, including checklists, data collection guidelines, presentations, reference guides, and training materials.

However, not all of the documents in the toolkit are necessary or appropriate in every context: for example, a Child Friendly Space in Iran with 10 5-7 year old children in a tent structure may operate very differently than a school in Finland with 60 pre-teens.

The proposed CFS Toolkit application will simplify and automate the process of selecting and distributing contextually-appropriate resources to workers in Child Friendly Spaces. The application allows CFS creators and overseers to specify the specific contextual needs of their space (such as the age groups of the children and the country of establishment), and the application will automatically compile a customized bank of the resources that fit the contextual needs of that space. These resources can then be made digitally accessible to everyone working in that CFS through an intuitive, cross-platform web tool.