Award Winners 2017

Emeritus Professor Ferran Casas Aznar

Ferran Casas Aznar is Emeritus Professor at the University of Girona, after 10 years as Senior Professor of Social Psychology in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Girona (Spain).

He leads ERIDIqv (external link)  research group (Research Team of Children’s Rights and their Quality of Life) at the Research Institute on Quality of Life (IRQV (external link) ), University of Girona.

He is one of the coordinators of the Children’s Worlds International Survey (ISCWeB) (external link) , promoted by ISCI and the Jacobs Foundation.

He was the Chair of the Experts Committee on Childhood Policies of the Council of Europe (1992-1996). The last days of his mandate he promoted a Recommendation on children participation in family and social life, that was adopted by the Committee of Ministers in 1998 (R-98-9).

He participates in several international research projects, four of them supported by the European Commission. The methodology he developed on “children’s rights dilemmas” has been translated to different languages and replicated in several countries.

Altogether, he has authored or co-authored 22 books, edited or co-edited 8, more than 100 book-chapters (in 9 different languages) and over 100 papers in scientific journals. He is one of the co-editors of the 5-volumes Handbook of Child Well-Being. Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective (external link) 

African Child Policy Forum

The ACPF (external link)  is an independent, not for profit, policy research institute on the African child headquartered in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.

By putting children first on the public agenda, the ACPF aims to contribute to the realization of children rights and wellbeing and to social and economic progress in Africa more broadly.

Guided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the child, and other regional and international human rights instruments, the ACPF aims “to specifically contribute to improved knowledge on children in Africa; monitor and report progress; identify policy options; provide a platform for dialogue; collaborate with governments, inter-governmental organisations and civil society in the development and implementation of effective pro-child policies and programmes and also promote a common voice for children in and out of Africa.”

Though the African Report on Child Wellbeing (external link) , the ACPF regularly assesses the extent to which African governments are living up to their commitments and provides critical analyses of national efforts to formulate and implement child-sensitive laws and policies.