International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD)

The International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) is a unique hybrid organization: part non-governmental organization (NGO), part academic institution, located in Victoria, British Columbia (BC), focused on social innovation with and for children and youth. For the past 20 years, IICRD has been a bridge building organization working with a wide variety of partners in participatory, applied research, professional education, and community capacity building initiatives. The programs and projects catalyze change, transformation, and healing for the most vulnerable young people in the society, in Canada and in over 30 countries around the world. VISION Children, their families and communities thrive in a world where there is dignity, belonging, and justice for all.  MISSION With a focus on working with children and communities living in adversity, IICRD‘s work promotes the rights and wellbeing of children at all levels. IICRD transforms lives by: promoting learning, and nurturing capacities, knowledge, practices, and policies that place the wellbeing and the rights of children, their families, and communities at the centre. facilitating innovative, strength based and child led processes at the community, organizational, and international levels fostering healing and accountability to children, connecting actors across the child protection system.