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World Vision CHAMP Child-Led Research

Enabling young people to be voices for ending hunger and malnutrition in the South Asia Pacific

Our Vision

To bring children and young people to the forefront of the research process and equip them with the knowledge and skills to advocate for practical action in addressing hunger and malnutrition in their countries.

Our Project Plan

In partnership with World Vison International, the Young and Resilient Research Centre (Y&R) will work with Child-led Advocacy and Meaningful Participation (CHAMP) youth leaders in five countries across the South Asia Pacific region (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines and Sri Lanka) to help the youth leaders gain the research skills, knowledge and confidence to run their own research project. Projects will explore children and adolescent’s views, priorities and lived experiences on important nutrition issues in their country. Y&R will provide capacity building training sessions through participatory workshops with youth leaders, and provide resource ‘toolkits’ for the youth leaders to develop and obtain critical research skills.

CHAMP youth leaders will lead two participatory workshops with 20 young people, aged 10-18 years, to collect data that responds to their own research question. The findings from the data will form an ongoing advocacy agenda for the World Vision CHAMP team. During the workshops, each country will choose selected Child and Adolescent-Centred Nutrition Indicators (from the CAN_I project) as measures of nutritional impact on children and adolescents appropriate to their research topic. Additionally, World Vision will also implement their ENOUGH indicators to measure child wellbeing outcomes.

Project History

Extending on the work of World Vision’s ENOUGH campaign, the CHAMP Child-led Research projects stem from the CHAMP SAP Regional Changemaker Leaders meeting in 2023, where an agreement was made to prioritise child-led, multi-country nutrition focused research. Projects aim to highlight the key issues facing children and adolescent in the various contexts, as perceived and experienced by children and adolescents. Data collection takes on board the methodology used in the aligning Y&R CAN_I project, which was developed from workshops with Australian children and adolescents aged 10-18 years.

This work primarily addresses SDG 2 (UN Sustainable Development Goal 2) with aspirations to eliminate world hunger, while also addressing SDG 3 and SDG 10 - promoting healthy lives and wellbeing, and reducing inequality. The outcomes from the project aim to bring the priorities of nutrition as voiced by children and adolescents to decision makers.

Outputs

Youth Training Resources:

Outcomes

  • New knowledge of food and nutrition issues in South Asia Pacific countries as perceived and experienced by children and adolescents, including access, affordability and food in schools.
  • Informing advocacy agendas for the Nutrition for Growth Summit Paris 2025.

Collaboration team

Internal collaborators:

Dr Catharine Fleming - Chief Investigator

Stephanie Hannah - Project Manager

Daniel Prichard - Research Officer

Dr Pavithra Rajan - Research Officer

Lilly Moody - Centre Manager

Prof Amanda Third - Y&R Co-Director

External collaborators/Partners:

Mercy Chipo Jumo - World Vision

Philip James Ceriales - World Vision

Kathrine Yee - World Vision

Funding

World Vision International

Streams

Participation and Engagement

Period

July 2024 - March 2025

Contact: If you would like to get in contact with the World Vision CHAMP Child-Led Research team, please email Stephanie Hannah at s.hannah@westernsydney.edu.au.