Impact Assessment

Leonardo 4 Children Impact Assessment Framework

This report includes the framework for the monitoring, evaluation and learning, and impact assessment of the “Leonardo 4 Children” non-profit initiative, which aims at developing the potential of children in art & science skills, and to support children in need with art & science education.
The report has been prepared between October 2021 and May 2022 by the “Carano 4 Children” foundation with the support of several young ph.D. and graduates, and the supervision of University professors, consulting professionals and charity experts, and the support of foundation Compagnia di San Paolo.
The report presents the methodology used to assess the impact of the initiative, the structure of the impact assessment framework and the specific indicators to monitor the performance.

Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policy

The Carano 4 Children foundation’s Code of Conduct & Child Safeguarding Policy is available here:

Code of Conduct & Child Safeguarding Policy, September 2023

Code of Conduct

The “Carano 4 Children” foundation focuses on support to children via art & science, and operates on a strict non-profit basis as well as on the basis of the following key principles:

1. The Foundation’s activities focus on positive and clear impact for the benefit of children. The Foundation focuses on two main groups:

(i) to help children in need – primarily orphans, abandoned children, children in hospitals, children in refugee camps – to overcome post-traumatic stress with education in art & science; (ii) to enable children – primarily across Europe – to develop their potential in art & science, with adequate stimuli, focus on Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) skills, and providing them adequate visibility and recognition.

2. The beneficiary projects are selected via open and transparent calls, designed in partnership with the foundation, focused on addressing well-identified needs, implementation is made in cooperation with selected partners active on the field and adopting a child safeguarding policy in line with best practices.
3. The Foundation promotes international and multilateral policies – such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – and EU values and principles – such as rule of law, human rights, transparency, governance, equality, solidarity, universal education.

Child Safeguarding Policy

Purpose

The “Carano 4 Children” non-profit Foundation is focused on children’s support with art and science education, and its Board of Directors identified the need to introduce a Child Safeguarding Policy, to ensure its activities protect, safeguard and are beneficial to children.

Rationale

All children and adolescents involved in the Foundation’s activities, projects and programmes have the right:

• to have their health, safety and well-being, and their best interests considered as top priority
• to have their development promoted and safeguarded so that they can achieve their full potential
• to be valued, respected and understood within the context of their own culture, religion and ethnicity
• to be listened to and to have their views given careful consideration
• to be encouraged and helped to participate in decisions which affect them, including in child protection decisions.

Contact: safeguarding@carao4children.org