Document Centre

In order to document our work, evaluate and validate our achievements, and help others to reproduce our successes, CESESMA has produced the following significant documents. Most are in Spanish, but where English versions or summaries are available there are links below. All are published by CESESMA unless a publisher is shown in brackets after the title. They are roughly in date order, with the most recent first. To download a document in PDF format, click on the cover image below.
	Children and young people as active citizens: Impact on public policy in Nicaragua (2010) Final report of research project to identify the factors that enable children and young people to have a real impact on public policy-making. ISBN: 978-99964-813-0-7 Currently in Spanish only. For a print copy contact CESESMA.
	Our Voice Counts (2011) Child-friendly version of the research report "Children and young people as active citizens: Impact on public policy in Nicaragua"  (CESESMA 2010) Currently in Spanish only. For a print copy contact CESESMA.
	Our Voice Counts: Facilitator's guide (2011) A practice tool for facilitators to work with children and young people on the topics covered in "Our Voice Counts!" Currently in Spanish only.
	Rights and Wrongs (2011) Report by the Young Consultants' team from Santa Martha coffee plantation in Yasica Sur on their research into the relationship between business and human rights on the plantation. For the Young Consultants' original report in Spanish, click here
	Safe, Quality Schools (2010) Perceptions and ideas of children and young people from the Waslala, Rancho Grande and Tuma-La Dalia districts.
	Children and Young People Defending our Right to Play (CODENI 2009) Article by children and young people's Action-Research team from Samulalí, published in Arco Iris, the quarterly  magazine of the Nicaraguan Coordinating Committee of NGOs working with Children and Youth (CODENI), Issue no.36, November 2009. Note: An English version of the children's report, and more information on the Right to Play in Nicaragua campaign, are available on the Common Threads website: Click here
	A study of the problem of violence against children and young people in the Samualí district of Matagalpa (2009) Report by a team of Young Consultants from Guadalupe Arriba in Samulalí on their research into the problem of violence in their community (Spanish only).
	Perceptions of violence towards children and young people in fifiteen rural communities of San Ramón, Matagalpa (2009) Participatory appraisal carried out by CESESMA in 2008 at the start of our project "Promoting Children and Young People's Participation in the Prevention of Violence" (Spanish Only).
	School Works! Child Labour, the Right to Education and Fair Trade (INTO 2008)
	Book 1: Infants   Book II: 1st and 2nd class   Book III. 3rd and 4th class   Book IV: 5th and 6th class   Photoset 1 (A4)   Photoset 2 (A5)   Photoset 3 (A5)	Primary School classroom resource pack developed by the Irish National Teacher's Organisation (INTO) in partnership with CESESMA, funded by Irish Aid. The pack is based on the daily lives and experiences of working children from Samulalí and Yasica Sur districts. The printed version has been distributed free to all 3,500 primary schools in the Irish Republic.
	The Recommendations of the Special Report of the United Nations on Violence against Children and Young People: Child-friendly version (2007) Child-friendly version (in Spanish) of the Recommendations of the Special Report of the United Nations on Violence against Children, produced by CESESMA as part of our first Children's Consultancy project in July 2007.
	Retomando los caminos hacia la participación: Aprendiendo de los niños, niñas y adolescentes trabajadores del café de Nicaragua (IIED-LA 2008) Article in Spanish by Harry Shier from the journal Medio Ambiente y Urbanización, which provides a case study of CESESMA's Young Community Educators' (Promotores/as) training programme. A shorter version in English: "Pathways to Participation Revisited: Learning from Nicaragua's Child Coffee Workers" has been published in "A Handbook of Children's Participation: Perspectives from Theory and Practice", edited by B Percy-Smith and N Thomas, published by Routledge in the UK. ISBN 978-0-415-46852-7. To access the book via the publisher's website, click here. Alternatively e-mail CESESMA for a copy of this chapter.
	Building a World of Opportunities (2006) Systematic analysis of CESESMA's health and nutrition education programme with children and young people of Samulalí and Yasica Sur 2002-2005. ISBN: 99924-0-530-9 Spanish only. For a copy of the book contact CESESMA. To download an extract from the book with a selection of children and young people's stories told in their own words (in Spanish only) click here.
	Annual Report (2006) CESESMA’s 2006 Annual Report, available in both Spanish and English, offers a summary of all the activities carried out during the year,  illustrated with many photos, as well as the conclusions of the end-of-year evaluation and the annual accounts. For the Spanish version, click here.
	With the kids promoting and defending their rights! (Save the Children Canada 2004) A systematic account of CESESMA's environmental and rights-awareness work with children and young people in El Tuma-La Dalia 1997-2001. ISBN: 99924-865-3 Spanish only. For a copy of the book contact CESESMA.
	CESESMA, Impact Evaluation 2000-2002 (2003) Investigation to discover the impact of CESESMA's interventions with children and young people, their families and communities during the three years 2000-2002. This is a summary in English. For the full report in Spanish, click here.
	Tackling environmental problems (1999) Third in our set of teacher's guides for environmental education with children in or out of school. For a print copy, contact CESESMA.
	Plants and animals in the environment (1998) Second in our set of teacher's guides for environmental education with children in or out of school. For a print copy, contact CESESMA.
	What is the environment? (1997) First in our set of teacher's guides for environmental education with children in or out of school. For a print copy, contact CESESMA.
	My family, my comunity and me (1996) First of two teacher's guides for preventative health education with children in or out of school.
	Health and hygiene (1996) Second of two teacher's guides for preventative health education with children in or out of school.