| Indicator ID | J5 |
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| Indicator full statement | % of children and youth who reported a perceived increase of social cohesion in their community due to conflict prevention and resolution initiatives (interpersonal and/or collective) carried out. |
Purpose
| Importance | This indicator aims to indicate how many children and youth feel/sense that conflict prevention, management and resolution activities carried by Tdh and/or partners produced better social cohesion at the family/community level. |
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| ToC pathway | ToC Pillar 3: Social Cohesion is enhanced through the promotion of local justice for children and youth as well as through their role as agents of change to achieve peaceful societies. |
| Related services | Catalogue of services: Capacity development non-justice individuals; community child-led initiatives; capacity development customary and tribal judges; innovation initiatives; organization of feedback & complaint mechanism. |
Definition
Children and youth up to 25 years old.
Social cohesion (as per Tdh definition): below the pillars selected by Tdh to frame ‘social cohesion’:
Social relations refer to inter-group and inter-individual trust, diversity management, mutual respect and solidarity;
Sense of belonging refers to shared values and norms, sense of belonging and national identity;
Inclusion refers to social inclusion and equity and economic inclusion and prosperity;
Legitimacy refers to institutional trust and sense of representation by state institutions;
Conflict management refers to the availability of effective access to justice, remedies, and mechanisms for peaceful dispute resolution.
Security and peace refer to the feeling of personal and collective security and the perception of lasting peace.
Due to conflict prevention and resolution initiatives (interpersonal and/or collective): refer to any action aiming at supporting the prevention and/or resolution of conflicts in a given community, whether between two people or including groups of different people. Examples: restorative justice circles, mediation, family group conferencing, or any other methodology used at the community level that has the objective of preventing, managing or resolving conflicts.
How to collect & analyse the data
| What do we count? | Tdh counts individuals : children, and youth. |
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| How to calculate the indicator's value |
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| Data sources | Children and youth from the communities where conflict prevention and resolution initiatives have taken place. That includes those who have participated directly in those initiatives but also other children and youth who belong to those communities since we are measuring perceptions of social cohesion improvements. |
| Data collection methods and tools | Survey/consultations. To ensure quality and accurate data, it is important to count on ad hoc tools within the project to proceed with the measurement according to the pillars of social cohesion as defined by Tdh but adapted to the specific context (e.g. specific questions that relate to the given context). The survey should contains questions using the elements of social cohesion that come from Tdh’s approach (see above in definitions). In as much as possible, tailor the language to the different cognitive development of children and youth in your context. Add a final scoring per survey that will allow you to form your numerator. |
| Example of survey questions | Survey/consultation template model (to be adapted per context) - * to be done in 2025 as per the tools following Tdh Social Cohesion Framework |
| Disaggregation | Gender and Age |
Limitations and precautions
The concept of social cohesion varies across contexts (particularly at local and national levels). It is important to use the Tdh pillars of social cohesion (see definitions) in an adaptable and flexible way, taking into account the context of work (e.g. armed conflict, severe displacement, high violence, etc.)
Be mindful that the social cohesion perceptions of children and youth might come from different reasons and feelings, including it can be affected by different events (e.g. in the days before the survey takes place, a violent event occurred, or even if something happened at school or home that was particularly different and worrisome for them).
Perceptions measurement through surveys should factor in the social desirability bias. It is also important that the survey/consultation tools provide ‘confidence’ to the children and youth who are being surveyed, so to maximize the truthfulness of responses. Special care is needed in avoiding leading questions, for example,
Bear in mind that the tools developed to measure this indicator (surveys/consultation tool) should be highly contextualized.
What further analysis are we interested in?
What are the common factors as referred to by children and youth to feel that social cohesion in their constituencies has improved?
Is there any specific intervention in terms of conflict prevention and resolution that is seen as particularly successful? Why?
Are there any remarkable differences per children/youth regarding intersectional factors (e.g. age, gender, displacement, socio-economic background, religion/ethnicity, disability, etc.)
Additional guidance
Tdh Social Cohesion Framework (to be released end of 2024)
Survey/consultation template model (to be adapted per context) - * to be done in 2025 as per the tools following Tdh Social Cohesion Framework