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Ensuring Higher Degrees of Child Participation in All Spaces

By:

CSO Platform For Reform – Child Cluster

Affiliations:

Child Rights Coalition Malaysia (CRCM)

Policy Code:

2e Child

Problem Statement:

1. Despite Malaysia’s ratification of UNCRC and relevant laws for child participation, children
continue to have their voices unheard, if not silenced.
2. The culture of perceiving children as “incapable” of understanding or knowing about
matters that concern them is the root-cause of the lack of empowerment for children to
participate in family, schools, community and child-related policy-making decisions.
3. 3/4 children primarily want quality education for every child (UNICEF Children4Change poll,
2017). Today, the decision of reopening schools is made without consulting or even hearing
the opinions of children themselves.
4. Child participation in Malaysia today is limited to the first three ladders of Hart’s ladder of
child participation – manipulation, decoration and tokenism. Children’s opinions are not
really included in policy-making decisions that concern them. Children spend at least 13
years in schools. The education system has failed in creating the spaces for children’s voices
to be heard.

Value(s) and Belief(s):

Upholding UNCRC Articles 12-17 to amplify child participation in accessing information
and enabling them to participate in decision making processes affecting their rights and
wellbeing at all levels by including:
1. children in national policy-making decisions;
2. normalising children’s participation within their ecological systems;
3. empowering children as child rights advocates.

Proposal of Solution:

1. Laws and policies made should primarily be in the best interest of children, and its
implementation should reflect active child participation.
2. Grassroot initiatives need to be taken in order to shift the collective mindset on child
inclusivity. KRTs and RAs can create spaces for child participation to educate, accompany and
empower children to participate at their immediate community level.
3. National policies, laws and decisions concerning children must include their opinions in its
decision-making process. Children must be seen as stakeholders and have their opinions
taken into account prior to any decisions pertaining to them.
4. The degree of child participation must ascend from non-participation towards adult-initiated
shared decisions with children and child-initiated and directed participation within the next
five years.
5. Schools need to allow for inclusive and holistic participation for children in the freedom of
choice of art/science stream, in sports and other extracurricular activities. Classroom
learning should also be revamped in such a way that teachers act as guides instead of
instructors, so as to ensure an interactive nurturing space for child participation and growth.

Additional Information:

2019 CRCM Status Report

Translation

Isu dan Polisi Semasa:

Walaupun pengesahan Malaysia terhadap UNCRC dan undang-undang berkaitan dengan peryertaan kanak-kanak, pendapat kanak-kanak masih tidak dipeduli
Budaya menggangap kanak-kanak tidak mampu memahami atau mengetahui hal-hal mengenai mereka adalah punca masalah dalam kekurangan pemerkasaan untuk kana- kanak meryertai keluarga, sekolah, komuniti dan membuat keputusan untuk dasar berkaitan dengan kanak-kanak
3/4 kanak-kanak mengutamakan pelajaran berkualiti untuk setiap kanak-kanak (UNICEF Children4Change poll, 2017). Hari ini, keputusan membuka sekolah semula diputuskan tanpa berbincang atau mendengar pendapat kanak-kanak
Penyertaan kanak-kanak hari ini terhad kepada tiga tangga pertama daripada Hart’s Tangga Penyertaan Kanak-kanak – manipulasi, hiasan dan tokenisme. Pendapat kank- kanak tidak dipeduli dalam pembuatan keputusan untuk dasar yang berkaitan dengan mereka. Kanak-kanak telah menghabiskan 13 tahun dalam persekolahan. Sistem pembelajaran telah gagal mecipta suatu ruang di mana suara kanak-kanak dapat didengar jelas sekali.

Nilai-nilai dan Kepercayaan:

Menegakkan Artikel 12-17 UNCRC dengan memperluaskan penyertaan kanak-kanak dalam mengakses maklumat dan memungkinkan mereka berpartisipasi dalam proses pengambilan di semua paras yang boleh mempengaruhi hak dan kesejahteraan mereka, termasuk:

Keputusan dasar negara merangkumi kanak-kanak
Membiasakan penyertaan kanak-kanak dalam lingkungan sistem ekologi mereka; 3.Sebagai pembela hak kanak-kanak dan perkasakan anak-anak.

Penyelesaian:

Undang-undang dan dasar yang dilancarkan harus lebih mengutamakan kepentingan kanak-kanak, dan pelaksanaannya harus mencerminkan penyertaan yang aktif daripada kanak-kanak.
Inisiatif asas harus diambil secara inklusif untuk mengalihkan pemikiran kolektif mengenai keterangkuman kanak-kanak. KRT dan RA dapat mewujudkan ruang bagi penyertaan kanak-kanak untuk mendidik, mendampingi dan memperkasakan kanak- kanak untuk mengambil bahagian di peringkat komuniti terdekat mereka.
Dasar, undang-undang dan keputusan negara mengenai kanak-kanak mesti melibatkan pendapat mereka dalam proses membuat keputusan. Kanak-kanak mesti dilihat sebagai pihak berkepentingan dan pendapat mereka dapat dipertimbangkan sebelum membuat sebarang keputusan yang berkaitan dengan mereka
Dalam tempoh lima tahun yang akan datang, tahap penyertaan kanak-kanak mestilah ditingkatkan daripada penyertaan terhadap pengambilan keputusan bersama yang dimulakan oleh orang dewasa dan penyertaan yang diwujud dan diarah oleh kanak- kanak.

Informasi Tambahan:

2019 CRCM Status Report

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