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Workshop and Consultations
As part of Butterflies objective to work in partnership with
grassroots voluntary organizations and the international agencies to
raise awareness on issues which affect marginalized children
everywhere, Butterflies on a regular basis organizes and actively
participates in workshops of diverse issues. This enables Butterflies
to reach out to larger audience, share common concerns and come out
with collective solution. Some of the important activities in this
regard are as follows:
5th March 2007
On 5th March 2007, Butterflies organized a meeting with 5
NGOs- CASP Plan, Prabhatara, Vidya, Project Concern India and Sahitya
School who with Butterflies are part of the National Institute of Open
Schooling (NIOS). Butterflies is accredited to the NIOS programme and
the five NGOs are the linked partner organizations accessing NIOS for
their children through Butterflies. The meeting was organized with the
objective to formalize and systematize the relationship of Butterflies
with the NIOS partner NGOs and to understand the status of NIOS in
each organization. Further, it aimed to clarify roles and
responsibilities of Butterflies and the partner NGOs in the context of
NIOS and also to understand issues related to NIOS for each of the
partner NGO and identify areas of support for them to develop
timelines for implementing NIOS programme for the current year with
clearly chalked out roles and responsibilities.
 27th -28th December 2006
A two-day workshop for DCRC members was organized at
Indian Social Institute on Journalism and Print Media on 27th and 28th
December 2006 wherein 40 children and adult facilitators participated.
The workshop was very successful in training children in various
skills involved in newspaper publication, formation and administration
of child journalists’ groups, reporting, editing and writing. Children
also designed a newspaper, Delhi Children’s Times which DCRC children
will release in the month of February. On the last day Shri Brijmohan
Gupta, Station Director, Prasaar Bharti-Broadcasting Corporation of
India, graced the occasion and distributed Certificates of
Participation, to all the participants in the training workshop.
21st - 22nd December 2006
A two-day residential national level training workshop of
Child Health Educators, one of the major component of Butterflies
Health Care programme, was organized on 21st and 22nd December 2006 at
Jamia Hamdard with the objective of promoting the concept of health
care at national level and also to inculcate a sense of collective
participation and responsibility among children towards their health.
28 participants from 9 grassroot voluntary organizations across India
actively participated in this workshop.
29th -30th November 2006
“Getting it Right” – A two-day workshop on People
Policies, Office Administration and Accounting in voluntary
organizations was organized jointly by Butterflies and Cocoon,
Bangalore at the India Habitat Centre on the 29th and 30th November
2006 with the objective to put management systems in place and use
funds judiciously.
November 2006
Butterflies organized 4 Island level workshops in Andaman
and Nicobar Islands (South Andaman, Little Andaman, Great Nicobar and
Car Nicobar) on child rights for youth to create awareness amongst
them about child rights, motivate them to identify and address issues
and problems related with children and also familiarize them to their
roles as duty bearers in ensuring child protection. Around 100 youths
from different villages (tribal/non tribal) participated in these
workshops.
30th September 2006
The fourth Annual Lecture series was organized on the
theme of ‘Judiciary and Children’. Justice Bhaskar Rao, Member
National Human Rights Commission graced the occasion as the chief
guest and delivered the Keynote Address. Mr. Gerry Pinto, advisor
Butterflies chaired the session. The panelists comprised of Dr. Achal
Bhagat, Director Saarthak, who shared his views on Child Friendly
Judicial Processes; Ms. Aparna Bhatt, Advocate Legal Services, spoke
on the Laws for Children and Mr. Gautam Navlakha, Editorial Consultant
EPW & Human Rights Activist spoke on duality of judicial
pronouncements and their impact on children.
28th August 2006
 From Banning to Moving Ahead’- a one-day consultation on
the issue of Child Labour was organized by Butterflies and Human
Rights Law Network on 28th August 2006 at India International Centre,
with reference to the notification on ‘prohibiting employment of
children as domestic servants or servants or in dhabas (roadside
eateries), restaurants, hotels, motels, teashops, resorts, spas or in
other recreational centers’. The Consultation focused on mainly two
questions, the plan for the rehabilitation of children affected by the
ban and what should be the prescribed guidelines and standards for
rescue, restoration and rehabilitation that need to be followed on or
soon after October 10 when suddenly lakhs of children will find
themselves out of the jobs, when the central government notification
comes into full effect. The immediate goal of the consultation was
formulation of a doable Delhi State Plan of Action to deal with the
situation of child labour and develop a protocol for rescue,
restoration and rehabilitation of affected children. The Plan of
Action (Report) was presented to Chief Minister of Delhi, Ms. Sheila Dikshit, the Labour Department, Government of NCT Delhi and other
concerned departments/voluntary organizations for consensus building,
to ensure that child rights are protected in the wake of ban on
children in domestic work, dhabas and eateries.
 June -July 2006
Butterflies and Prayas, the two child protection NGOs,
took the initiative of planning and organizing five Regional
Consultations, six State Consultations, one National Consultation and
two Children’s Consultations, involving 287 voluntary organizations
nationwide and 146 children to facilitate inputs in the 11th five Year
Plan. It was indeed historic that for the first time, 287 field-based
organizations (350 participants) working on child protection issues
came together to be part of the planning process and they shared not
only their concerns but also came up with concrete recommendations and
proposals to input into the Eleventh Five-Year Plan.
23rd June 2006
On 23rd June 2006, a meeting with corporate houses was
organized with the intention to sensitize the corporates towards the
cause of street and working children and orient them towards two
innovative projects of Butterflies geared to empower street and
working children- Children’s Development Bank and Children’s
Newspaper. This meeting also enabled the sharing of some unique
efforts of corporate bodies like American Pacific to support the
children associated with Butterflies. Wide array of corporate houses
participated in the meeting that comprised of world’s largest car
manufacturing company- General Motors to ITC Welcome Group
that constitutes the topmost rung of India's hospitality business.
Representative from Confederation of Indian Industries, India’s
premier business association playing a proactive role in India’s
development process was also part of the meeting. With respect to
print media, spokesperson from Times of India, the leading
daily newspaper of India was present while representatives from well
renowned corporate house like British Gas, Shell India
and HSBC also participated and appreciated both the initiatives
of Butterflies.
22nd – 24th March 2006
Butterflies organize a one-day adult (NGOs) consultation
and two days children consultation on “Draft Bill on Offences against
Children, 2005” at Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. All the
participants felt that the consultation was a good opportunity for all
to give their views since in most cases children’s legislations are
rushed through without any debate, discussions or deliberations. The
general consensus being that children and adults / organizations
working with children should have a say in such a legislation that is
seeking to protect the rights of children.
 20th -24th February 2006
Butterflies along with Equal Access organize a 5 day
Children’s Radio Production Workshop with the objective to share their
experiences, ideas and creativity through the production of their own
radio programs as well as inculcate in them programme making skills.
It also emphasized on imparting basic editing skills and technical
assistance to design and set up a participatory radio initiative that
addresses the rights of children and create opportunities for the
betterment of their lives.
28th February 2006
Children’s meet was organized by Childline India
Foundation at Delhi Brotherhood Society’s Premises in New Delhi where
21 children associated with Butterflies participated. Butterflies also
facilitated a session with 150 children in order to enable them to
come up with issues and concerns and moderated an interface of the
children and allied systems including Chairperson of the Child Welfare
Committee, Metropolitan Magistrate of the Juvenile Justice Board and
Directors of the Childline organizations.
3rd-4th February 2006
Follow up Training workshop on Journalism and Print Media
and Children’s Development Bank for 50 children and 8 adult
facilitators associated with Aparajeyo Bangladesh was organized at
Dhaka.
16th December 2005
About 20 Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were
given an orientation on “Child Rights” at New Delhi Railway Station.
6th December 2005
Open House discussion on Childline (helpline for children
in distress) was organized at Nizamuddin Dargah . During the
discussion children came up with issues/concerns and possible
solutions of the problems that they face in their day to day life.
3rd December 2005
First Regional Convention of South Asian Child Journalist
Forum was organized by Butterflies at Chennai. The convention was
presided over by Justice M Karpaga Vinayagam, Judge Madras High Court,
Prof. S.P. Thyagarajan, Vice Chancellor, Madras University, Mr
Kamalendra Kanwar, Editor, New Indian Express and Ms. Helga Klein,
Chief of Party, SARIQ. Chief Guest, Justice Karpaga Vinayagam,
released the third issue of South Asian Children’s Times during
the convention.
 1st -2nd December 2005
South Asian Regional Follow up Training Workshop for 60
participants, 39children and 21 adult facilitators on Children’s
Development bank and Journalism and Print Media at St. Thomas
International Centre, Chennai. The follow up to the first South Asian
Regional Training Workshop was based on this very experience of the
participants in implementing the CDB and Newspaper project, with an
objective to share the experiences of all partners with each other,
reflect on the progress made and learn lessons from each other.
29th -30th November 2005
Regional planning workshop on Radio was organized with 24
children and 6 adults from 4 South Asian countries – Afghanistan,
India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and was organized in Chennai. The planning
meeting was organized to understand what radio is, what we can do with
radio and the participants were also briefed about the forthcoming
radio initiative. Preliminary training was also provided to the
participants on the likely issues that would be addressed during the
next round of training workshops.
16th November 2005
Butterflies organized one day consultation on “Children
living in Poverty” at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. This was followed by
the launch of the report” Poverty and Children in Orissa-
Strengthening Government Accountability”.
30th September 2005
Butterflies Third Annual Lecture Series- First call for
Children on the topic “Children and Disaster” was held at India
International Centre, New Delhi.
10th August 2005
Butterflies organized a Consultation on Challenges in
Working with Adolescent Street and Working Children at Indian Social
Institute, New Delhi.
5th August 2005
Butterflies organized a one day health workshop with
children at Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi.
21st June – 24th June 2005
On the occasion of International Day on Drug Abuse and
Illicit Trafficking, with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment,
Butterflies organized a two day event in Nizamuddin Dargah and Okhla
to highlight issues related to substance use. About 300 children and
adults participated in the event.
 20th April -10th April 2005
Butterflies organized First South Asian Regional Training
Workshop on Journalism and Print Media and Children’s Development Bank
at Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, Chanakya Puri, New Delhi 72 participants,
50children and 22 adults from six countries of South Asia-
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka,
attended the workshop.
12th -16th April 2005
A five day workshop was organized for the field team of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Child Rights, Child Protection.
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