2025 East Asia Regional Child Participation in WV Decision-Making Report

World Vision is committed to supporting and strengthening children’s meaningful participation in all decisions that affect their lives, including and especially in World Vision’s own decision-making processes that affect children at local, national, regional and global levels. Ensuring that children have a say in projects and programmes that affect their lives and empowering them to take action on issues that they care about is a cornerstone of World Vision’s identity and child-focused programming.

This regional report provides high-level insight on child participation from World Vision countries in East Asia: Cambodia, China, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. It summarises emerging trends and child participation practices at local and national levels, and digs deeper into how child participation is making an impact on children, local communities, and World Vision as an organization.