This second case study in the “Unveiling worlds: Centering child voices in humanitarian contexts case study series” used “photovoice” to facilitate displaced children’s active participation and illuminate their lived experiences to inform humanitarian practices and policies. The qualitative research highlighted some areas that adults, both implementers and the children’s parents, had not considered before. Based on children’s views from this study, the leading implementing collaborator, Save the Children Türkiye, modified some of their child protection and psychosocial support programs. Insufficient time and funding during the project period, however, limited the project’s impact on the broader humanitarian architecture and government response in this part of Türkiye. Yet Save the Children plans to continue sharing the lessons of this approach with key humanitarian and donor stakeholders. Importantly, this research approach was low-cost, fast, easy to implement, and easily replicable to other humanitarian contexts.
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