1996 – 1997
*>General framework of simply making life easier for adolescent girls on the streets
* >Clear framework of intervention is child rights, no moralizing
* > Street organizing and drop-in center as initial programs
* >Other programs evolved as the need was realized (as identified by both girls and staff, based on girls’ disclosures) – therapy, education, health services, legal support
*>In terms of management, evolved a participatory/ collective work style
1998 –1999
* >Street gangs as entry-point for organizing
* >Inclusion of male peers in gangs in activities
*>Identification and development of peer facilitators
*>Conduct of participatory action research, involving both boys and girls on the streets
*> Organizational learning on child participation
2000-2001
*>Defining direction of community work and community-based support groups
*>Re-entry of staff to the communities – re-establishing relations with barangays; community-mapping sessions
*>Strengthening the self-help initiatives of the children within their own structure in the gangs
*>Strategy shift à Identified target groups/ gangs for capability-building, instead of individual peer facilitators
*> Establishment of database on gangs and formulation of capability-building plans
*>Concept of community-based centers reconsidered given relationship dynamics/ realities in the communities
*>Organizing of community-based action groups 2001 –2004
*>Identification of priority gangs
*>Child-focused interventions that maximizes collective healing and capability-building
*>Clarification of community-based action groups and community-work, where parents were identified as a priority group, followed by male peers in the streets and community-based organizations
*>Public advocacy to include policy advocacy
*>Initiated the process of institutionalizing Child Rights Programming Identified
Strategies for 2005-2009 *
*>Constituency building and mobilization
*>Alliance building and network mobilization
*>Policy advocacy
*>Internal and human resource systems strengthening
*>Resource management (generation and sustainability)