Rwanda | Early Child Development

The COMMUNICATIONS X-CHANGE is an online library of materials contributed by organisations and individuals around the world who are working to end violence against women and children. Contents of the searchable database highlight the effectiveness of using communication to stimulate change in attitudes and beliefs, influence social norms, and...

Multimedia Library on Sexual Abuse - Biblioteca Multimedia sobre Abuso Sexual

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual abuse because "sexual abuse is one of the worst human rights violations committed against women and children, a type of aggression against the integrity of their bodies, minds and spirits. As an information centre, we believe that citizens should have...

Vidura: A Journal of the Press Institute of India - October-December 2012 Edition

"As digital technology advances and digital products become cheaper, it will not be possible for governments to exercise control on the flow of information."

Quality Early Learning to Scale

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The Effect of Sesame Street around the World: A Meta-Analysis from 15 Countries

"...Sesame Street is an enduring example of a scalable and effective early childhood educational intervention. The significant, positive effects on cognitive, learning, and socio-emotional outcomes observed in the current meta-analysis represent real educational benefits for the millions of preschool-age children around the world who visit...

The Bernard van Leer Foundation Annual Report 2012

"Over the years, the Foundation has realised the importance of more holistic thinking, rooting interventions in local circumstances and becoming active in such areas as health and social protection as well as early learning." - Lisa Jordan

Digital StudyHall (DSH)

Digital StudyHall (DSH) is a project which uses information and communication technology (ICT) to improve quality and accessibility of education in rural and slum schools in India. DSH provides digitally recorded classes by selected grassroots teachers n an effort to to create a large database which can distributed on DVDs to schools in...

Improved Physical Environments

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9th African School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Course

The Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and partners are co-organising the 9th African SHN Course, June 10-20 2013, focusing on Nutrition in the School-Age Child and Adolescents. For ten days, attendees will engage in both classroom and field-based learning in which the exchange of best practice, regional knowledge, and experience will be...

The Bernard van Leer Foundation Annual Report 2012

"Over the years, the Foundation has realised the importance of more holistic thinking, rooting interventions in local circumstances and becoming active in such areas as health and social protection as well as early learning." - Lisa Jordan

We Change the World: How to Live in 2015 and Beyond

From Radijojo World Children's Radio Network in Berlin, Germany, this project connected students in classrooms in four countries to learn about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), exchange ideas of what needs to change in each country to achieve them, and find out their wishes for the future. In addition, the students from Hannah High...

Community Participation

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COMMUNICATIONS X-CHANGE

The COMMUNICATIONS X-CHANGE is an online library of materials contributed by organisations and individuals around the world who are working to end violence against women and children. Contents of the searchable database highlight the effectiveness of using communication to stimulate change in attitudes and beliefs, influence social norms, and...

Multimedia Library on Sexual Abuse - Biblioteca Multimedia sobre Abuso Sexual

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual abuse because "sexual abuse is one of the worst human rights violations committed against women and children, a type of aggression against the integrity of their bodies, minds and spirits. As an information centre, we believe that citizens should have...

The Bernard van Leer Foundation Annual Report 2012

"Over the years, the Foundation has realised the importance of more holistic thinking, rooting interventions in local circumstances and becoming active in such areas as health and social protection as well as early learning." - Lisa Jordan

Methodology and Lessons-Learned from the Efficacy Clinical Trial of the Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine in Bangladesh

This study from rural Bangladesh describes the methodology based upon "good clinical practices (GCP)" used to set up a clinical trial for vaccination of infants for prevention of acute gastroenteritis associated with rotavirus. "Given that this was the first trial with clinical outcomes for any rotavirus vaccine conducted in Bangladesh, the...

Social Innovation Counts

Where will be the children of Edison Flores, the young man who died ten years ago lying on a steep street of Comuna 8, one of the leaders of the bloc of the AUC Metro [El Bloque Metro - a paramilitary organisation reported to be of the extreme right that organised itself in the late 1990s in Medellín]?

We Change the World: How to Live in 2015 and Beyond

From Radijojo World Children's Radio Network in Berlin, Germany, this project connected students in classrooms in four countries to learn about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), exchange ideas of what needs to change in each country to achieve them, and find out their wishes for the future. In addition, the students from Hannah High...

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The UNICEF Child Protection Focus

This United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) article presents a focus on early childhood attention, based on prevention and responses to violence, exploitation, and abuse, to ensure that children grow up in a safe environment with the necessary supports in place.

Child Friendly Cities

This United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)-driven initiative promotes the application by local entities of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in their jurisdictions. Accross the globe, a Child Friendly City (CFC) is any local government system that makes a commitment to respect the rights of children. It is a city in which...

Las Golondrinas Foundation - Colombia

Las Golondrinas (The Swallows) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that works with displaced and marginalised people in Medellin, Colombia. The NGO offers health care programmes, education services, nutrition, and health care geared towards early childhood to communities and the group also assists families with income-generating...

Strategic Thinking

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Vidura: A Journal of the Press Institute of India - October-December 2012 Edition

"As digital technology advances and digital products become cheaper, it will not be possible for governments to exercise control on the flow of information."

The Bernard van Leer Foundation Annual Report 2012

"Over the years, the Foundation has realised the importance of more holistic thinking, rooting interventions in local circumstances and becoming active in such areas as health and social protection as well as early learning." - Lisa Jordan

Methodology and Lessons-Learned from the Efficacy Clinical Trial of the Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine in Bangladesh

This study from rural Bangladesh describes the methodology based upon "good clinical practices (GCP)" used to set up a clinical trial for vaccination of infants for prevention of acute gastroenteritis associated with rotavirus. "Given that this was the first trial with clinical outcomes for any rotavirus vaccine conducted in Bangladesh, the...

Sesame Workshop's Research Model: Inform, Improve, Measure...Repeat

This video describes the strategic approach of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organisation based in the United States (US) and working in 150 countries around the world to entertain while educating preschool children in the areas of literacy and numeracy, emotional wellbeing, health and wellness, and mutual respect and understanding....

Scaling Up Early Childhood Development

This article describes the Wolfensohn Centre for Development, which the Brookings Institute launched in 2006 to be a new research centre dedicated to global development and poverty reduction. In 2007, the Centre launched its Early Child Development (ECD) Initiative with the objective of illuminating improved methods for scaling up ECD...

Going to Scale: Early Childhood Development in Latin America

This study is published by Institute for Reconstruction and International Security through Education (The RISE Institute).

The UNICEF Child Protection Focus

This United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) article presents a focus on early childhood attention, based on prevention and responses to violence, exploitation, and abuse, to ensure that children grow up in a safe environment with the necessary supports in place.

"Communities" in Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from Autism Research in South Africa and South Korea

"Community-based research requires collaboration with the population where research is conducted. There is no one-size-fits-all method of community engagement."

The Rights of Children and the Right to Media

"...as important as it is to prevent, identify, and punish media abuses - including its penchant for stimulating consumerism and early sexualization - this approach is inadequate to address the interrelationship between the media and the rights of children and youth."

Evaluations

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The Effect of Sesame Street around the World: A Meta-Analysis from 15 Countries

"...Sesame Street is an enduring example of a scalable and effective early childhood educational intervention. The significant, positive effects on cognitive, learning, and socio-emotional outcomes observed in the current meta-analysis represent real educational benefits for the millions of preschool-age children around the world who visit...

Targeting Preschool Children to Promote Cardiovascular Health: Cluster Randomized Trial

"School programs can be effective in modifying knowledge, attitudes, and habits relevant to long-term risk of chronic diseases associated with sedentary lifestyles."

Report: The Impact of Jalan Sesama on the Educational and Healthy Development of Indonesian Preschool Children: An Experimental Study

"This study offers solid findings that exposure to a four-month Jalan Sesama intervention can benefit Indonesian preschool aged children....[This work shows that differential levels of exposure to the Jalan Sesama project affects and improves a child's literacy and mathematical skills, health and safety knowledge, social...

Continuing Education in Disaster-Affected Schools in Bangladesh: An Evaluation of the Education in Emergencies Project

"Beyond financial constraints, one of the primary reasons disaster risk reduction in education is overlooked is the limited knowledge about the significance of the problem."

Violence against Children in Schools and Families in Durrës, Elbasan and Berat Districts

Commissioned by the Save the Children Albania Country Office a for a project ending June 2012, this evaluation sought to find out whether the project reached its goal: 'to achieve significant reduction of adult-to-children violence in the targeted schools and kindergartens'. The project worked in 4 schools and 3 kindergartens, where the...

Early Childhood Rights Indicators: A Guide for Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of the Child

"Working with representatives from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and other international partners, HELP has developed an Indicators Framework for monitoring rights in early childhood. This Framework is intended to assist the 193 signatory countries to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in meeting their obligations...

Big Bird Looks at the World Season I Evaluation Report

Big Bird Looks at the World (BBLW), the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street, launched in December 2010. Focusing on the theme of science and discovery, the 52 episode, 11-minute television series aims to use science as a vehicle to promote curiosity, observation, and hands-on investigation among Chinese children ages 3 to 7. It is...

Jalan Sesama's Educational Impact: Evidence from an Experimental Study of a Sesame Street Outreach Project in Indonesia

Jalan Sesama is the Indonesian version of Sesame Street. Produced in partnership with Jakarta-based Creative Indigo Productions, it debuted on Indonesian television in mid-February 2008. Jalan Sesama means "street for all" in Indonesian, and is inspired by the concept of togetherness and diversity. In partnership with the...

The Impact of a Caribbean Home-Visiting Child Development Program on Cognitive Skills

This is a study of the impact of the Roving Care Givers programme of St. Lucia, a home visiting programme for vulnerable families of very young children.

Patrika - Media Action Group (MAG) Campaign

This evaluation gives data on the progress of the Aao Padhyein Sabko Badhayein (Come let us teach and work for the rise of all), launched in India in April of 2011 by the PATRIKA -Media Action Group (MAG campaign) to enrol children in schools through a team of volunteers and correspondents who work for the Rajasthan Patrika, a Hindi language...

Digital

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Multimedia Library on Sexual Abuse - Biblioteca Multimedia sobre Abuso Sexual

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual abuse because "sexual abuse is one of the worst human rights violations committed against women and children, a type of aggression against the integrity of their bodies, minds and spirits. As an information centre, we believe that citizens should have...

Methodology and Lessons-Learned from the Efficacy Clinical Trial of the Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine in Bangladesh

This study from rural Bangladesh describes the methodology based upon "good clinical practices (GCP)" used to set up a clinical trial for vaccination of infants for prevention of acute gastroenteritis associated with rotavirus. "Given that this was the first trial with clinical outcomes for any rotavirus vaccine conducted in Bangladesh, the...