About Us

In order to explore and better understand the connection between children’s rights to participation and protection, the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP) was established following an international conference held at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in October 2015.

Through our prior work on the interconnections of children's rights to participation and protection, the International & Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP) identified a critically overlooked element in realizing child rights: intergenerational relationships. The expanded ICCRP will now focus on this new, innovative research direction to examine how intergenerational relationships can transcend current barriers to implementing children's rights, through intergenerational partnerships, in research, policy, and practice.
Primary Research Question
How can intergenerational relationships contribute to, challenge, and transcend barriers to realizing child rights?
Research Objectives
1. Expand conceptual models for intergenerational partnerships;
2. Investigate processes for fostering intergenerational partnerships to support child rights, including youth activism;
3. Identify and develop relational practices (intergenerational, decolonial, cross-national, cross-cultural, ethical) that can reform and stimulate research, public policy, and practice to support child rights; and
4. Explore and analyze child rights education environments and how they support or hinder understanding of child rights among children, as well as intergenerational partnerships.
Informed by relational child rights and decolonization theories, as well as new ethical frameworks, we are engaging in case study analysis in four Research Streams to examine existing innovative initiatives, conduct our own participatory research with young people, and assess child rights education.
Mixed methods are used in each case study, and we analyze data via four Working Groups focused on four cross-cutting themes: participatory methodologies, ethics, policy, and conceptual interconnections. Our diverse mix of countries and case studies will reveal commonalities and unique features across contexts and geographies.
For more information about our current research, feel free to read our (PDF file) Overview Infographic or click on the posters below.
- (PDF file) Case Study 1a: Intergenerational Partnerships While Growing up on the Streets
- (PDF file) Case Study 1b: Intergenerational Relationships, Lived Experiences, & Ontario Child Welfare Policy & Practices
- (PDF file) Case Study 2aii: Multi-Country Case Studies World Vision
- (PDF file) Case Study 2b: Child and Youth Activism Projects (Overview of all Five Sites)
- (PDF file) Case Study 2b: Child and Youth Activism Projects (Brazil Only)
- (PDF file) Case Study 3b: Child Rights Impact Assessments
- (PDF file) Case Study 3c: Young People’s Participation and Protagonism in Five Brazilian Cities Poster
- (PDF file) Case Study 4a: Shaking the Movers: A Model for Exploring Intergenerational Relations and Children’s Rights
- (PDF file) Policy Working Group Poster
- (PDF file) Ethics Working Group (3 Posters Included 1 per language)
- (PDF file) Participatory Methodologies Working Group Poster
- (PDF file) Conceptual Interconnections Working Group Poster
- (PDF file) Data & Evaluation Working Group
- (PDF file) IAC Poster
- (PDF file) Steering Committee Poster
- (PDF file) Partners' Advisory Committee Poster
- (PDF file) Knowledge Mobilization Committee Poster
Our Four Research Streams
Research Stream 1:
Expanding Intergenerational Conceptual Models
Research Stream 2:
Child and Youth Activism
Research Stream 3:
Developing Relational Practices in Research and Public Policy Initiatives
Research Stream 4:
Child Rights Education And Intergenerational Partnerships