Document Centre
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:
Safe, Quality Schools(2010)
Perceptions and ideas of children and young people from the Waslala, Rancho Grande and Tuma-La Dalia districts.
PDF format, 2MB.
Children and Young People Defending our Right to Play (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.
PDF format, 1.1MB.
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 of a team of Young Consultants from Guadalupe Arriba in Samulalí on their research into the problem of violence in their community.
Spanish only. PDF format, 2.5MB.
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. PDF format, 700KB.
School Works! Child Labour, the Right to Education and Fair Trade (INTO 2008)
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.
Download in PDF format (books are 1.5MB each, photosets are 0.4 - 1.2 MB):
Photoset 1 (A4) Photoset 2 (A5) Photoset 3 (A5)
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 (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.Purchase of this book is highly recommended. 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.
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.
PDF format. 4.8MB. For the Spanish version, click here.
With the kids promoting and defending their rights! (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.
CESESMA Newsletters (2003-2007)
Between 2003 and 2007 CESESMA produced an electronic newsletter in both Spanish and English, featuring specific areas of work, and highlighting current developments. All the newsletters are available here in PDF format. Each PDF file is around 1 MB.
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