Child-Friendly City Planning Training Course
Child-Friendly City Planning Training Course provides a practical and strategic framework for professionals seeking to integrate child-responsive urban planning, inclusive public spaces, safe mobility, climate resilience, social infrastructure, and equitable service delivery into city development processes.
Skills Covered
Course Overview
Child-Friendly City Planning Training Course
Introduction
Child-Friendly City Planning is an increasingly important approach to urban development that places children’s rights, safety, wellbeing, participation, accessibility, and healthy development at the center of planning and decision-making. Child-Friendly City Planning Training Course provides a practical and strategic framework for professionals seeking to integrate child-responsive urban planning, inclusive public spaces, safe mobility, climate resilience, social infrastructure, and equitable service delivery into city development processes. Participants will explore child-friendly urban design, spatial planning, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, road safety, housing, schools, parks, healthcare access, environmental quality, and disaster resilience while examining how cities can create healthier and more inclusive environments for children of different ages and abilities.
The course also examines participatory planning and governance approaches that enable children, families, communities, planners, policymakers, developers, and civil society organizations to contribute to urban development. Participants will gain practical knowledge for conducting child-sensitive urban assessments, developing inclusive planning strategies, establishing measurable indicators, and integrating child-friendly principles into municipal development frameworks. Through international case studies and applied exercises, the course connects child-friendly city planning with sustainable development, smart-city innovation, climate action, social inclusion, and the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Sustainable Development Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand advanced principles of child-friendly city planning and child-responsive urban development.
- Apply child-centered spatial planning and inclusive urban design approaches.
- Integrate children’s rights into municipal planning, policies, and development frameworks.
- Design safer pedestrian, cycling, transport, and school-mobility systems.
- Develop inclusive parks, playgrounds, streets, and public spaces.
- Apply climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable planning for children.
- Assess accessibility and universal design for children with diverse abilities.
- Strengthen child and community participation in urban decision-making.
- Apply geographic information systems and spatial data to child-friendly planning.
- Develop effective child-friendly housing and social infrastructure strategies.
- Establish monitoring, evaluation, and child-friendly city performance indicators.
- Strengthen partnerships among governments, communities, private sector, and development organizations.
- Develop practical strategies for implementing and financing child-friendly urban development initiatives.
Organizational Benefits
- Improved child-responsive urban planning and development outcomes.
- Stronger integration of children’s rights into organizational policies.
- Safer streets, transport systems, and public spaces.
- Enhanced accessibility and social inclusion.
- Better climate resilience and environmental sustainability.
- Stronger community and stakeholder participation.
- Improved evidence-based planning and spatial decision-making.
- More effective coordination of urban development programs.
- Stronger monitoring and evaluation of child-friendly initiatives.
- Alignment with sustainable development and international urban-planning frameworks.
Target Audiences
- Urban and regional planners
- Municipal and local government officials
- Architects and landscape architects
- Transport and mobility professionals
- Housing and social infrastructure specialists
- Community development and child-welfare practitioners
- Non-governmental and development organization professionals
- Policymakers, researchers, and sustainability professionals
Course Duration: 5 days
Course Modules
Module 1: Foundations of Child-Friendly City Planning
- Principles and dimensions of child-friendly cities
- Children’s rights and urban development
- Child-responsive spatial planning
- Urban inequality and access to essential services
- Global case study: UNICEF Child-Friendly Cities initiatives
Module 2: Child-Centered Urban Design and Public Spaces
- Child-friendly streets and neighborhood design
- Parks, playgrounds, and recreational spaces
- Universal design and accessibility
- Safe, inclusive, and stimulating public environments
- Global case study: Superkilen and Copenhagen public-space approaches
Module 3: Safe Mobility and Transport Planning
- Pedestrian and cycling infrastructure
- Safe routes to schools
- Traffic calming and road-safety strategies
- Public transport accessibility for children
- Global case study: Bogotá’s child-friendly mobility initiatives
Module 4: Schools, Housing, and Social Infrastructure
- Child-friendly school environments
- Affordable and safe housing strategies
- Healthcare and community facilities
- Spatial planning for essential child services
- Global case study: Vienna social-housing and neighborhood planning
Module 5: Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Child-Friendly Cities
- Climate risks affecting children and urban communities
- Green infrastructure and nature-based solutions
- Urban heat mitigation and air-quality improvement
- Disaster-risk reduction and resilient infrastructure
- Global case study: Rotterdam climate-adaptive urban planning
Module 6: Participation, Governance, and Community Engagement
- Meaningful participation of children in planning
- Participatory urban design methods
- Community consultation and stakeholder mapping
- Child-sensitive governance and institutional coordination
- Global case study: UNICEF Child-Friendly Cities participation models
Module 7: Data, Technology, and Monitoring
- Child-friendly urban indicators and benchmarks
- Geographic information systems for spatial analysis
- Mapping accessibility and service gaps
- Monitoring, evaluation, and impact measurement
- Global case study: Barcelona data-driven urban planning initiatives
Module 8: Implementation, Financing, and Strategic Action
- Developing child-friendly city action plans
- Policy integration and institutional frameworks
- Public-private and community partnerships
- Financing sustainable urban interventions
- Global case study: Child-friendly urban development strategies in Rotterdam and London
Training Methodology
- Instructor-led presentations and interactive lectures
- Practical child-friendly city planning exercises
- Group discussions and stakeholder-mapping activities
- International case-study analysis
- Participatory planning simulations
- Spatial planning and problem-solving exercises
- Workshops on policy and implementation strategies
- Group presentations and peer learning
- Question-and-answer sessions
- Action-planning and implementation exercises
Register as a group from 3 participants for a Discount
Send us an email: info@datastatresearch.org or call +254724527104
Certification
Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with a globally- recognized certificate.
Tailor-Made Course
We also offer tailor-made courses based on your needs.
Key Notes
a. The participant must be conversant with English.
b. Upon completion of training the participant will be issued with an Authorized Training Certificate
c. Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.
d. The course fee includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, buffet lunch and A Certificate upon successful completion of Training.
e. One-year post-training support Consultation and Coaching provided after the course.
f. Payment should be done at least a week before commence of the training, to DATASTAT CONSULTANCY LTD account, as indicated in the invoice so as to enable us prepare better for you.