At its most recent meeting, the Council adopted the Child-Friendly Municipality Action Plan with 20 measures to integrate the rights of children and young people even better into administrative action. The Child-Friendly Community Action Plan was developed in an intensive process together with independent organizations as well as children and young people.

"We asked more than 2,000 children and young people about their wishes and incorporated them into the action plan," says Mayor Katja Dörner. "I am delighted that Bonn is becoming even more child-friendly. For me, small measures such as more table tennis tables in public spaces and improved cleanliness in playgrounds are just as much a part of this as the intensive participation of children and young people as well as youth-friendly information about political decisions, especially those that affect children and young people themselves."

The Child-Friendly Communities Association, which supports the city of Bonn, derives four key points from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that characterize a child- and youth-friendly city administration: Priority of the best interests of the child, child-friendly framework conditions, participation of children and young people and the right to information and monitoring. In addition to internal administrative measures, such as strengthening child and youth representatives or further training for employees, the action plan includes structural improvements such as a barrier check in leisure, sports and cultural facilities. The action plan is completed by measures that mean tangible improvements for children and young people, such as the child-friendly redesign of public spaces, improving the cleanliness of play and recreational areas and improving safe mobility to and from school.

All the measures in the action plan can be read in detail  here (opens in a new tab).