Child participation is recognized as a basic and critical right under the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child. In this regard, KFA made a journey in partnership with UNICEF in the area of child participation in the state of Orissa particularly in Koraput District.  The journey was started since the year 2012-13 in a new revolutionary innovative strategy the “Child Reporter Initiatives”. Through the ‘Child Reporters’ intervention, school-going children have been provided an opportunity to formulate and express their views regarding critical issues affecting them and their communities.

The intervention which started on a pilot scale in ten schools has been scaled up to 618 schools across the district. These efforts have contributed in creating a perceptible difference in the approach and outlook of children. A large number of these children are first generation learners and the intervention has contributed in making them better equipped to face the world. Child participation has been variedly defined by many scholars but KFA adopted the process while pioneering the programme was the most comprehensive formulation has been laid down under the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). UNCRC was the first instrument to set down the entire range of children’s rights including the right to survival and development, protection and participation. The right to participation aims to ensure that children are provided the opportunity and freedom to think, express and participate in the process of development. The Government of India ratified the UNCRC in 1992.

As per the following tabular form KFA carried forward the whole activities in the process of implementing the programme in the Koraput District.