Each force has its own individual form, where information on child recruitment by that force for example the ages, numbers, and gender of the children is registered continuously. However, information of this kind is in most cases very controversial and hard to come by. Therefore, the ambition at this stage is to collect and register various reports while clearly accounting for the sources. Such help especially from people travelling or working in problem areas will be decisive in ensuring the overall quality of the data base. The overall purpose of this data base is to facilitate access to a collection of documents on child soldiers that is organised by subject.
Priority is given to documentation of field level projects and programmes.
A key-word list containing some 70 concepts has been set up to organise the data base by subject. You can also search by country to locate documents on child soldiers in a particular country or by author, title, year, etc.