Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 3

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) promotes for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programs that attend to health, nutrition, security and learning which provide for children's complete development.  UNESCO works in partnership with member states, partners and other sponsors to inspire suitable and efficient operation of the Moscow framework so that all youths progress their potential to the max.  The UNESCO also brought about the Big Push workshop to increase early childhood care and education in Africa (UNESCO, 2013).  Africa is of importance for UNESCO and education is vital to the region's progress.  UNESCO's Regional Bureau for education in Dakar and 15 field offices serving sub-Saharan Africa work to keep education high on the agenda of governments and development partners (UNESCO, 2013).  

The ECCE is having a hard time in Africa.  Only a little more than one out of four African child aged between 0-8 get a shot to attend some kind of pre-school activity (UNESCO, 2013).  This is sad and I personally believe something needs to be done about this situation quickly.  The types of ECCE programs currently being operated in many African settings are neglecting the cultural values and practices of their societies.  There is no country that should ever have to suffer this type of neglect.  Education is very important not just in our nation but worldwide as well.

Some other vital information I found is the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) office in Buenos Aires recently launched a new website in the framework of the Sistema De Informacion De Tendencias Educativas En America Latina (SITEAL) initiative:  Sistema de Informacion sobre la Primera Infancia (SIPI) organizes material on engagements targeting at satisfying the rights of early childhood in Latin America and assesses the notch of success.  This system delivers efficient information on the guidelines and policies in 19 countries of the region and proposes statistical signs.  All information can be retrieved by country or by group of rights (UNESCO, 2013).

Reference

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (2013).  Early childhood care and education.  Retrieved from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/

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        This week I would like to share from the International child resource institute (ICRI), their working with Nepal on supporting international non-governmental groups build up a step by step preparation for sheltering and supporting children with confined parents.  The ICRI states "Mr. Ken Jaffe, Executive Director of the International child resource institute, traveled to Nepal so he could extend technical assistance to help the groups reach their mission" (ICRI).  This support and notice ensures the labor of the "Network on Children, Prisoners and Dependants (NCPD).  ICRI in Nepal assists the structure of this association of popular organizations running to support convicts and their children.  "We have remained deeply involved with the organizations and with its efforts to improve the well being of families impacted by Nepal's prison system."  "In recent years, ICRI in Nepal and the NCPD have received funding from the United Nations Development Program to implement HIV/AIDS prevention, vocational training, and psychosocial support programs in Nepali prisons" (ICRI).

        The ICRI of Nepal has overpowered the leadership of the National Center for Learning Resources, a modern reach to pre-primary and early education, instructors' preparation and school enhancement curriculums.  THe curriculum guides young children to progress their education success by having school resourceful and significant.  Problems are all over the world and organizations such as the ICRI continue to improve early childhood education and families across the board.  Stated by the ICRI, over 38 traditional ECD and primary classrooms have been restructured, reorganized and converted into child-friendly environments (ICRI).

Resource

International Child Resource Institute (ICRI).  Retrieved from http://www.icrichild.org/nepal/

Getting to know your international contacts--Part 2

After viewing the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (CDCHU, 2010), I found a piece on Zambian early childhood development project.  A great amount of revisions have examined the effects of early childhood proficiency on children's growth, health, and learning results in established nations, rather a small amount of proof is existing on early childhood expansion in sub-Saharan Africa.  In an effort to improve this matter, several organizations proposed the Zambian early childhood development project (ZECDP) in 2009which is a collaborative effort to measure the effects of an ongoing anti-malaria initiative on children's development in Zambia.  So that capacities are made on the anti-malaria campaign on Zambia's human capital development, the ZECDP made a fresh complete tool to assess children's physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive progress before and during education professions, the first evaluation tool its kind in Zambia.  The evaluation links current child improvement actions with up-to-date established tools so there can be a provision of wide-ranging evaluations of kids of preschool age in the Zambian environment.

          As part of its Global children's initiative, the CDCHU propelled Nucleo Ciencia Pela Infancia.  This is a joined force among the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the faculty of medicine at the University of Sao Paulo, its first importan stage internationally.  In joining with known professionals, the task shoots to bring about the science of child health and development to monitor sturdier procedures and greater savings to assist the people in Brazil, especially the early childhood education (CDCHU, 2010).
           There are also contributions made to the rise of the Global Children's Initiative by the Mother Child Education Foundation of Turkey (ACEV).  This foundation actually provided as a collaborating link for planning.  The Center on developing child and ACEV strives to group a powerful idea in the command of science to enlighten global early childhood growth and value the balancing understandings each organization presents to carry children and families worldwide. 

Resource

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.  (2010).  Global children's initiative.  Retrieved

     from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/