National and international policy has focused on the importance of the voice of the child, of shared decision making for children accessing health services, and of self-defined recovery [ 10- 13].
Speaking at the opening of the workshop, Unicef Chief of Social Policy & Research, Samson Muradzikwa said the training workshop was an acknowledgement of the importance of children in decision making and reaffirmed the strong partnership that exists between the Government of Zimbabwe and development partners in improving the lives of children in Zimbabwe.
All the events have been marked with participation of children, decision makers, teachers and health workers, media, creative people and celebrities to create an opportunity to highlight the most important thing for children: enjoyment of their rights!
Items on decision making about the contraception/pregnancy and children planning included family ever planned, number of children planned, decision on family planning, decision in case of disagreement, contraception use, and decision on contraception.
By assessing competence to consent in children and adolescents more objectively than is now the case, greater justice could be done to the ideal of respect for the developing autonomy of children in decision making, in accordance with national and international recommendations.
UNICEF BiH remains focused on the activities with the aim to supporting the establishment of formal mechanisms of participation of children in the decision making process at the municipal level.
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One of the mentioned barriers for developing healthy lifestyle of the children was lack of decision-making power regarding food in joint families.
Although both boys and girls whose mothers have lower decision-making autonomy are more likely to be out of school than children of women with higher decision-making autonomy, girls seem to be considerably more affected by their mothers' lower level of autonomy.
Parent, child and decision coach perceptions of decision making involvement were measured using the 12-item dyadic OPTION scale [ 20].
