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Baghch-e-Simsim ("Sesame Garden" in Dari and Pashto) is designed to deliver lessons of literacy, math, and life skills to Afghan children ages 3 to 7 years, with a special emphasis on girls' empowerment, cultural diversity, and mutual respect and understanding. It is a locally developed Afghan version of Sesame Workshop's edutainment initiative Sesame Street.

Programme Experiences - May 23 2012 - 8:25am

"[W]hile there is some evidence that games and mobile apps can be a powerful tool for learning for older kids, we don't actually know that much about the potential of these newer technologies to educate toddlers and preschoolers or what effect they are having on children's cognitive, social and physical well-being. And the rapid pace of change is making it harder and harder for researchers to keep up."

Studies - May 9 2012 - 8:16am

"The most important experiences come from the environment of relationships that interact with each child: parents, extended family, and caregivers of all kinds. But serious adversity early in life can disrupt healthy brain development...What happens early matters for a lifetime."

Video - May 7 2012 - 11:03am

"When used intentionally and appropriately, technology and interactive media are effective tools to support learning and development...[K]eeping screen time recommendations in mind, technology and interactive media have the potential to enhance, without replacing, creative play, exploration, physical activity, outdoor experiences, conversation, and social interactions."

Studies - May 7 2012 - 7:35am

From Alive and Thrive, this handout comes from a "Research to Action" case study on designing communication on child feeding in Bangladesh. It defines the "trials of improved practices", or TIPs, method for testing which behaviours focused on as programme recommendations are possible and feasible for people in the intended subject group.

Studies - May 7 2012 - 7:31am

Launched in December 2011 by Sesame Workshop in Pakistan, Sim Sim Hamara ("Our Sesame") is the Pakistani version of Sesame Street, the United States (US)-based Sesame Workshop's multimedia entertainment-education series for preschoolers.

Programme Experiences - May 3 2012 - 11:33am

"Equipping a classroom with effective learning materials doesn't have to cost a lot. In fact, you can set up an amazing learning environment with exclusively free or low-cost items..."

Materials - May 10 2012 - 1:36am

Save the Children's Resource Centre is an online portal managed by Save the Children Sweden that hosts information on child protection and child rights governance.

Materials - Apr 12 2012 - 9:51am

This issue of the Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE)'s Newsletter by Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) explores new skills and knowledge teachers can develop to effectively engage families in the twenty-first century. The issue seeks to respond in particular to teachers' desire to be better prepared to relate to diverse students and families.

Materials - Mar 12 2012 - 12:05pm

Youth ages 9 to 25 are invited to submit short videos promoting harmony in diverse societies to the PLURAL+ Video Festival to be held at the Paley Center for Media in New York City, New York, United States (US). PLURAL+ is a video festival for youth-produced media aimed at building a more inclusive, tolerant society. The festival will address key issues in today's youth communities, such as migrant integration, inclusiveness, identity, diversity, human rights, and social cohesiveness.

Support Opps - Mar 8 2012 - 12:45am

The Girl Effect is a movement that focuses on advocacy from those who champion girls worldwide by making use of creative and social media. It is devoted to the idea that the empowerment of girls is the key to significant social and economic change in developing countries. Its signature video promotes the education of girls, especially between ages 12 and 18, when they are often deprived of that opportunity, as a way to protect girls from HIV, early marriage, and pregnancy and to offer an entrance to work that will keep them and their children from economic poverty.

Programme Experiences - Jan 31 2012 - 6:37pm

Through three distinct awards, the World of Children seeks to honour and bring acclaim to outstanding children's advocates and the work they do, as well as to raise public awareness about the issues affecting the world's children.

Humanitarian Award

The Humanitarian Award recognises an individual who has made a significant lifetime contribution to children in the areas of social services, education, or humanitarian services.

Support Opps - Mar 8 2012 - 12:41am

Broaden Communication of Your Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

Page - May 18 2012 - 3:26pm

Market Your Books and Other Publications

Knowledge is essential for improved development action. If you and/or your organisation produce for-sale books, training manuals, videos, booklets, or other publications, please consider marketing these through The CI's Books and other publications process.

Page - May 18 2012 - 3:29pm

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Page - May 23 2012 - 8:09pm

"This paper asks whether there are technological convergence opportunities in the current multimedia process, and if this process could become a key place to think about development, combating poverty and for equity. Would it be possible to make conceptual, political and strategic links in order to design cultural policies in the audiovisual industry, which contribute to development, to equity and both humanistic and citizen values?"

Studies - Jan 6 2012 - 11:03am

Honorary Director, Centre for Early Childhood Development and Research- an academic, research and advocacy Centre in the Jamia Millia Islamia Central University. 

Profile - Jan 1 2012 - 10:21am

The Lubuto Library Project, Inc.,  (LLP) is a development initiative that, in cooperation with governments, has the goal of creating opportunities for equitable education and poverty reduction through model library services housed in indigenously styled buildings. Lubuto Libraries are based upon traditional Zambian approaches, rather than western educational systems, by which African children learn about the world and their place in it. Beyond its libraries, the Lubuto Project works to identify and bring traditional Zambian stories back into print.

Programme Experiences - May 10 2012 - 3:35am

Lent has 40 years of experience in six regions in different roles, including leadership and management, facilitation, strategic planning, organizational development, organizational learning, and training/capacity building.  He has worked in different themes, including integrated development, human rights, advocacy, gender, disaster relief, and education sector reform; and with diverse entities, including NGOs, CSOs, the UN, local and national governments, foundations, social movements, the World Bank, and the private sector.

Profile - Nov 14 2011 - 11:34am

"Violent conflict is one of the greatest development challenges facing the international community. Beyond the immediate human suffering it causes, it is a source of poverty, inequality and economic stagnation. Children and education systems are often on the front line of violent conflict."

Studies - Nov 15 2011 - 7:45pm

Consisting of a book and a website, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s Communicating with Children: Principles and Practices to Nurture, Inspire, Excite, Educate and Heal is designed to facilitate the process of learning about the importance of communication that is age-appropriate and child-friendly, holistic, positive, strengths-based, and inclusive.

Materials - Apr 5 2012 - 1:29pm

This material was produced in 2009 by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It emphasises that there should be no room in schools for prejudice against children living with AIDS and suggests that they deserve respect, just like everyone else.

Video - Nov 6 2011 - 10:43pm

The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s regional office in Dakar, Senegal, are launching “Childhood Cultures”, an intergenerational African series of children’s books. Through the experiences of the main characters, Bouba and Zaza, the series seeks to develop life and socialisation skills outside the family context among children aged 3 to 8 and is also appropriate for older children, parents, and teachers.

Materials - Apr 24 2012 - 11:32am

Designed for programme planners and implementers, this technical brief from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)'s AIDSTAR-One (AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, Sector 1, Task Order 1) highlights the benefits of incorporating early childhood development (ECD) interventions into programming targeted towards orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). It argues that OVC programme managers interested in developing interventions to support ECD should focus on these 3 elements in the lives of a very young child:

Studies - Sep 15 2011 - 11:15am

With the goal of supporting Nigeria's basic education needs, Sesame Workshop developed the children's television series Sesame Square, broadcast on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). The first season, which debuted in May 2011, consists of 26 thirty-minute episodes that focus on curricular goals tailored to the developmental needs of Nigerian children. Season 2 broadcast is scheduled to begin in May 2012.

Programme Experiences - Apr 5 2012 - 1:29pm