Policy and Advocacy

The Landon Pearson Centre is a co-investigator on a number of international projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC). The most recent projects are noted below.

The International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP), an international consortium of children’s rights experts in 39 countries who investigate the interconnections of children’s rights with participation and protection with a focus on intergenerational relationships. The ICCRP policy working groups examines how intergenerational relationships can transcend current barriers to implementing children’s rights, through intergenerational partnerships, in research, policy, and practice.

The Inclusive Early Childhood Services Systems (IECSS) is a seven-year SSHRCC-funded project developed through a partnership with community, academic and policy organizations. This longitudinal study works with families to understand their experiences with early childhood services for children living with disability. The Landon Pearson Centre organized the Youth Advisory Council for the project by using the Shaking the Movers model for youth engagement.

GlobalChild works under the auspices of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to create a comprehensive, multilingual, electronic monitoring tool called GlobalChild that can track the progress made in existing policies and programs that support child health and development, provide evidence and data to inform the decisions of politicians, policymakers and researchers on issues related to children, and ensure government accountability to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.