Save the Children’s Civil Society Strengthening Program (PASC for its Spanish acronym) in Latin America seeks to strengthen civil society organizations so that they can demand and support the fulfillment of children’s rights, holding states to account and mobilizing and empowering children and their communities.
The strengthening of partner organizations is based on their needs and priorities to ensure their sustainability. Our work to advocate for and expand Civic Space aims to strengthen civil society as a whole.
The program has a regional scope, and the strength of the program is given by the joint advocacy and co-created programming among the partners. It is an intergenerational program where children and adolescents work hand in hand with adults and are the protagonists of the program.
PASC is Save the Children’s model program for localization and Shifting Power through equitable partnerships, flexible funding and capacity strengthening.
CHICOS.NET
Chicos.net is an Argentine organization that promotes the safe and responsible use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Save the Children partner since 2006, provides technical support to PASC partners that address ICT as a cross-cutting issue in their projects.
RED DE COALICIONES DEL SUR
The Southern Coalition Network is an international platform of national coalitions of civil society organizations with a recognized track record in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents.
https://www.redcoalicionessur.org/
The member organization in the country is:
Colectivo de Derechos de Infancia y Adolescencia.
www.facebook.com/derechos.deinfancia
MOLACNNATS
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
La Veleta y la Antena
www.facebook.com/laveletaylaantena www.instagram.com/laveletaylaantena
CEDECA CEARA
The Centro de Defesa e da Crianza e do Adolescente do Ceará (CEDECA) is a Brazilian Save the Children partner since 2002, working on investment in children. CEDECA works in the analysis of the public budget for children and promotes advocacy actions to ensure greater transparency in public investment.
REDE NAO BATA, EDUQUE
Brazilian national network, Save the Children partner since 2013, working to promote public policies for education without violence for children and adolescents, and in awareness campaigns on the application of positive discipline methodology for raising children, girls and adolescents by parents and educators.
RED DE COALICIONES DEL SUR
The Southern Coalition Network is an international platform of national coalitions of civil society organizations with a recognized track record in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents.
https://www.redcoalicionessur.org/
The member organizations in the country are:
Associação Nacional dos Centros de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescente ANCED/Seção DCI
www.ancedbrasil.org.br www.facebook.com/ancedbrasil
MNDH – Movimento Nacional de Direitos Humanos
www.mndhbrasil.org/ www.facebook.com/mndhbrasil
Latin American and Caribbean Network of national networks of children and adolescents, a partner of Save the Children since 2011, promotes their active participation in public spaces for the recognition, fulfillment and monitoring of the human rights of children and adolescents.
The member organizations in the country are:
EM QUADRO
Movimiento de niñez -Jóvenes por las Políticas públicas (MNJPOP)
MOLACNNATS
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Union de niños, niñas y adolescentes trabajadores de Bolivia (UNATSBO) acompañados por Pasocap
RED DE COALIONES DEL SUR
The Southern Coalition Network is an international platform of national coalitions of civil society organizations with a recognized track record in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents.
https://www.redcoalicionessur.org/
The member organization in the country is:
ROIJ – Red Nacional de ONGs de Infancia y Juventud Chile
www.corfal.cl
www.facebook.com/corfal.arica
MOLACNNATS
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Protagoniza
facebook.com/centroaccionsocial.protagoniza
Latin American and Caribbean Network of national networks of children and adolescents, a partner of Save the Children since 2011, promotes their active participation in public spaces for the recognition, fulfillment and monitoring of the human rights of children and adolescents.
The member organizations in the country are:
Red Nacional de infancia y juventud ROIJ
Corporación OPCION
MOLACNNATS
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Organización Nacional de Niños y Adolescentes Trabajadores de Colombia (ONNATsCOL) acompañados por Fundación Creciendo Unidos y Fundación PT
PANIAMOR
The PANIAMOR Foundation is a Costa Rican non-governmental organization, Save the Children partner since 2003. An expert in advocacy for legal reforms on physical and humiliating punishment, and in the development of public policies and programs.
REDESCA – Red de Coaliciones de Centroamérica (Networks of Central American Coalitions)
It is a space of articulation of different coalitions and networks of NGOs working within the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols, promoting, defending and demanding its fulfillment.
The member organization in the country is:
Unión de Instituciones Privadas de Atención a La Niñez (Uniprin)
FUNDASIL
Fundación Silencio, partner of Save the Children since 2017, works for the revision of the law prohibiting physical and humiliating punishment, for the promotion of the Positive Discipline methodology in Everyday Parenting, through community campaigns and capacity building of governmental and civil society stakeholders .
ORMUSA
The Organization of Salvadoran Women for Peace (ORMUSA). Feminist, non-partisan, non-denominational and non-profit organization in El Salvador. Ormusa has been a partner of Save the Children since 2020. that promotes equality, gender equity and the economic, social and political empowerment of women through advocacy actions.
REDESCA – Red de Coaliciones de Centroamérica (Networks of Central American Coalitions)
It is a space of articulation of different coalitions and networks of NGOs working within the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols, promoting, defending and demanding its fulfillment.
The member organization in the country is:
Red para la Infancia y la Adolescencia (RIA)
sites.google.com/site/reddeinfanciaria
Latin American and Caribbean Network of national networks of children and adolescents, a partner of Save the Children since 2011, promotes their active participation in public spaces for the recognition, fulfillment and monitoring of the human rights of children and adolescents.
The member organization in the country is:
RIA/RENAES
Latin American and Caribbean Network of national networks of children and adolescents, a partner of Save the Children since 2011, promotes their active participation in public spaces for the recognition, fulfillment and monitoring of the human rights of children and adolescents.
The member organizations in the country are:
Movimiento Social por la Defensa de los Derechos de Niñez y Adolescencia de Ecuador
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Familias Trabajadoras Cristianas
The association Red Departamental de Mujeres Chiquimultecas, “REDMUCH”, is a civil, private, apolitical, non-profit, non-religious, service, promotion, encouragement, support, economic, social, cultural, educational, integral development of the associates and the population, registered in the Municipality of Chiquimula in Guatemala. Redmuch has been a PASC partner since 2020.
https://www.facebook.com/mujereschiquimula/
It is a space of articulation of different coalitions and networks of NGOs working within the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols, promoting, defending and demanding its fulfillment.
The member organization in the country is:
Coordinadora Institucional de Promoción por los Derechos de la Niñez –CIPRODENI
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Ceipa – Centro Ecuménico de Integración Pastoral
Latin American and Caribbean Network of national networks of children and adolescents, a partner of Save the Children since 2011, promotes their active participation in public spaces for the recognition, fulfillment and monitoring of the human rights of children and adolescents.
The member organization in the country is:
Movimiento Social por la Defensa de los Derechos de Niñez y Adolescencia de Ecuador
It is a space of articulation of different coalitions and networks of NGOs working within the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols, promoting, defending and demanding its fulfillment.
The member organization in the country is:
Coordinadora de Instituciones Privadas Pro las Niñas, Niños, Adolescentes, Jóvenes y sus Derechos (COIPRODEN)
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Melel Xojobal
www.melelxojobal.org.mx/ www.facebook.com/melelxojobal
REDNNYAS
Latin American and Caribbean Network of national networks of children and adolescents, a partner of Save the Children since 2022, promotes their active participation in public spaces for the recognition, fulfillment and monitoring of the human rights of children and adolescents.
The member organization in the country is:
Federación Coordinadora Nicaragüense de ONGs que trabajan con La Niñez y la Adolescencia (CODENI).
It is a space of articulation of different coalitions and networks of NGOs working within the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols, promoting, defending and demanding its fulfillment.
The member organization in the country is:
Federación Coordinadora Nicaragüense de ONGs que trabajan con La Niñez y la Adolescencia (CODENI).
· FUN
The United for Children Foundation, FUN, is a non-profit organization. At FUN we work for the protection and promotion of the rights of children and adolescents through different educational, psychotherapeutic and training programs aimed at children, families, schools and the community. We offer the services of school and community prevention programs and specialized psychological care for boys, girls, adolescents who are victims of mistreatment, sexual abuse, and families in crisis. We are the only organization in the Republic of Panama that works on the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse.
GLOBAL INFANCIA
Partner of Save the Children since 1995. It is an expert organization in political advocacy and campaigns with non-governmental actors, private sector companies and the media, and provides technical support to PASC partners in the area of National Comprehensive Child Protection Systems.
http://www.globalinfancia.org.py/
RED DE COALICIONES DEL SUR
The Southern Coalition Network is an international platform of national coalitions of civil society organizations with a recognized track record in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents.
https://www.redcoalicionessur.org/
The member organization in the country is:
La organización miembro en el país es:
CDIA – Coordinadora por los Derechos de la Infancia y la Adolescencia
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Connats acompañados por Callescuela
ACCIÓN POR LOS NIÑOS
Peruvian partner organization of Save the Children since 1998, committed to promoting the genuine participation of children and adolescents in decision-making spaces, strengthening the national system of integral promotion, promoting public policies in favor of positive parenting, and greater and better investment in children.
ANIA
ANIA is a non-profit organization, with the mission to help new generations grow up with active empathy for life through innovative initiatives that connect them with Mother Earth and empower them as agents of change.
EQUIDAD
Equidad is the Center for Public Policy and Human Rights based in Peru that has been a partner of Save the Children since 2010, advocating for States to invest more and better resources for children and adolescents. With PASC, it provides technical support to other partners in this area.
PAZ Y ESPERANZA
Peruvian partner organization of Save the Children since 2010 that focuses its work both in promoting public policies in favor of positive discipline and in strengthening the technical capacities of government actors in the field, as well as in awareness campaigns and strengthening of the National Comprehensive Child Protection System , with a special focus on the prevention of sexual violence in children and adolescents.
https://www.pazyesperanza.org/pe/
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Mnnatsop- Movimiento Nacional de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes Trabajadores Organizados del Perú acompañados por IFEJANT/INFANT
REDNNYAS
Latin American and Caribbean Network of national networks of children and adolescents, a partner of Save the Children since 2022, promotes their active participation in public spaces for the recognition, fulfillment and monitoring of the human rights of children and adolescents.
The member organization in the country is:
REDNNA Perú
· SPDA
The SPDA is a civil association with educational and scientific purposes related to the care and protection of the environment. It carries out research on public policies and environmental legislation, strengthens the capacities of the public sector, civil society and especially vulnerable populations, promotes dialogue and generates spaces for citizen participation, education, information and scientific research. The SPDA works for a culture of defense of citizen interest, to disseminate and guarantee the right of every person to a healthy environment
RED DE COALICIONES DEL SUR
The Southern Coalition Network is an international platform of national coalitions of civil society organizations with a recognized track record in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents.
https://www.redcoalicionessur.org/
The member organizations in the country are:
CDNU – Comité de Derechos del Niño/a de Uruguay
www.cdnuruguay.org.uy www.facebook.com/CDNUruguay
ANONG – Asociación Nacional de Organizaciones No Gubernamentales Orientadas al Desarrollo
CECODAP
Venezuelan organization working to promote the rights of children and adolescents since 1984. It has been a partner of Save the Children since 1988. Within the framework of PASC, it works in training for families and educators in positive discipline, and in psychosocial support for children, adolescents, their families and educators affected by the context of crisis in the country.
RED DE COALICIONES DEL SUR (SOUTHERN COALITION NETWORK)
The Southern Coalition Network is an international platform of national coalitions of civil society organizations with a recognized track record in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents.
https://www.redcoalicionessur.org/
The member organization in the country is:
Redhnna – Red por los Derechos Humanos de niños, niñas y adolescentes.
MOLACNNATS is a space for the articulation of national movements, groups, associations and organizations of Working Children and Adolescent Workers (NATS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The member organization in the country is:
Corenats – Coordinación Regional de niños, niños y adolescentes trabajadores
Save the children
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to