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How can children themselves help monitoring? Children who take part in data collection may feel empowered. Children are also often well placed to observe the situation of other children, for instance their school participation. In many cases children observe and experience things differently from adults, and the way children perceive the state of certain issues has proven to be an eye-opener to many adult observers, and thus a valuable contribution to the monitoring process. Children can also be important informants for triangulation, the process whereby information on a given topic is collected from several sources to improve reliability. Children, however, should not be assigned monitoring tasks that could put them in a situation of conflict of interests. Certain OVC, for instance street children and certain working children, can be far more likely to get access to quality information on the situation of other street children than any outsider, and would besides be better at interpreting the meaning of certain observations. In spite of the common challenges often involved in working with OVC in such grave situations, it should be considered as an option that can support efforts to build the trust and commitment of current and potential future project beneficiaries (for more on principles for and challenges related to working with children, see the section on Consulting with Children) |
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