Collaborative Governance in Developing Child-friendly Cities

Community-based integrated child protection is a movement of networks or groups of citizens at the community level that work in a coordinated manner to achieve child protection goals. The legal basis for its formation is related to child protection contained in the convention on the rights of the child, Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning child protection, the problem is that the participation between the community, local government, and nonstate organizations as well as between organizations in outside the government as government partners in realizing Child-friendly City (CFC). The aim is to identify and analyze collaborative governance that has been running, the roles of local governments, the business world, educational institutions, the mass media, and the community in developing child-friendly cities. Collaborative theory from Chris Ansell and Alisson Gash was used to explain collaborative governance in the development of child-friendly cities by looking at their roles as facilitators, coordinators, stimulators, and dynamics. The data were obtained from informants and was quasi qualitative. The recommendation: it is necessary to have integrated community-based child protection, the configuration of resources from various organizational backgrounds that join in a forum, co-ordination, and diversification of communication media, which is carried out to support activities to fulfill children’s rights.