A/HRC/52/61 with civil society actors, including faith-based organizations, in support of the establishment of the World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Violence. During her country visits, the Special Representative has continued to promote the value of strong engagement with communities and religious leaders for achieving lasting change, including through the Qudwa initiative and the Adyan network in Lebanon, La Rabita Mohammadia des Oulemas in Morocco and the Plateforme Interconfessionnelle in Chad. At the country level, the Special Representative engages with the Scouts, building on her collaboration and memorandum of understanding with the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Involving children and youth 39. The Special Representative promotes a culture of meaningful and representative child participation, where children, as key stakeholders in all matters concerning their safety and well-being, are also actors and agents of change in the development of integral protection systems. One priority encompasses bridging the gap between children who are taking action and decision makers and creating spaces for the interaction of children with decision makers and United Nations officials. To support this work, the Office of the Special Representative has developed and disseminated resources for the promotion by United Nations entities and Member States of the development of child-friendly versions of reports and the creation of spaces for direct engagement with children. 40. In 2022, on the margins of sessions of the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, the Special Representative held an exchange with hundreds of children and presented child-friendly versions of her reports and discussed them with child participants. Outcomes from these exchanges were transmitted to the Council and the Assembly during her interactive dialogues with both bodies. 41. Following the Special Representative’s briefing with children on the climate crisis and violence against children held on the margins of the session of the General Assembly, her Office developed resources for adults engaging with children, including child-friendly assets, videos and children’s messages on the climate crisis, and shared them with education ministries globally. 42. The Special Representative promotes the use of institutional means to ensure meaningful child participation in government-led action, including pathways to engaging and involving children in the development, implementation and monitoring of policies, programmes, services or legislation affecting their lives. She invited Member States to share information on how they established institutional modalities for child participation. The initial information suggested that child advisory groups for ministries associated with children or affiliated with government institutions were the most popular means of incorporating children’s participation, followed by the inclusion of children in national development strategies and other forms of consultations. Often, periodic reporting under the Convention on the Rights of the Child provided Member States with the opportunity to include children’s views. 43. During the reporting period, the Special Representative engaged directly with over 1,000 children during country missions and interactive dialogues organized by her Office or by the children themselves. These engagements included connecting with children in street situations, working children, refugees and migrants, girls and children in institutions. 44. The Office of the Special Representative launched a digital campaign entitled “Let’s tell the world” to encourage children to tell others about their actions taken to make the world safer, greener, better and more inclusive. The campaign received information on over 100 new initiatives, which will be added to the Office’s digital participation map. The map currently includes over 260 examples of participation from 90 countries, highlighting how children support each other, raise awareness and advocate on issues such as mental health, peer violence, violence online, misinformation, bullying, sexual violence, trafficking in children, violence against children on the move, climate change, poverty and sustainable development. GE.22-29128 9