Education of Disabled Children Organisation Uganda Expand view PO Box 71038 Kampala Advocacy and lobbying for education of disabled children. Facilitates the provision of assistive devices, counselling of parents and children with disabilities and works to raise public awareness.
Institute for Food Laws & Regulation USA Expand view 165C National Food Safety & Toxicology Center Michigan State University Provide distance education courses for international food regulations and for the proMS in Food Safety program. It is an internet distance education programme that consists of a series of region specific food law courses courses taught over the internet, using a variety of web-based distance education tools. http://vu.msu.edu/preview/anr-ifl
LSTM Malaria Knowledge (MKP) UK Expand view Pembroke Place Liverpool L3 5QA The DFID Malaria Knowledge Programme, based at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, began in 1999 and will continue until 2004. The Malaria Knowledge Programme has been working to transform people's vulnerability to malaria into resilience. The primary focus of research has been on vulnerability, gender, community based initiatives, diagnostics and laboratory services, vector control and urban malaria. Some projects have already provided results. The recent strengthening of the programme's partnerships, particularly with other knowledge and DFID programmes, has led to important new developments - The Vulnerability & Health Alliance being one example. See also http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/majorprogs/malaria/outputs.htm http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/groups/malaria_knowlege.htm
Global Development Network USA Expand view 2600 Virginia Avenue Suite 1112 Washington DC 20037 The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research and policy institutes working to provide a fresh and relevant perspective to the development challenges of our time. Not only supports and produces research, it also facilitates knowledge sharing among researchers and disseminate knowledge on development issues to the public and policymakers. A selection of resources are freely available online, others can be ordered via the website. http://www.gdnet.org
UN Enable (formerly: UN Global Programme on Disability) USA Expand view United Nations Enable Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Department of Economic and Social Affairs United Nations, S-2906 New York, NY 10017 UN Enable works to advance the rights of persons with disabilities in society and development, through key global instruments such as the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (1982), the Standard Rules on Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (1994) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), as well as other relevant human rights and development instruments. http://www.un.org/disabilities/
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) Bangladesh Expand view PO Box 5095 Dhaka 1205 BNNRC is a national networking body working for building a democratic society based on the principles of free flow of information, equitable and affordable access to Information, Communication Technology (ICT) for remote and marginalised populations. http://www.bnnrc.net
Hope Clinic Lukuli Uganda Expand view PO Box 4290 Kampala Hope Clinic Lukuli is a philanthropic facility which has the purpose of maximising access to accurate, high quality health services. It brings national initiatives to the community at the lowest sustainable price, or free, to reduce financial barriers to health information and care. It is independent of research or faith-based organisations. It employs and develops Ugandan medical staff and treats over 500 patients a month. Management receive no fee or income from the clinic, thereby reducing overhead costs. http://www.hcluganda.org/clinic
Human Rights Watch USA Expand view 350 Fifth Avenue 34th Floor New York NY 10118-3299 Human Rights Watch is an international NGO dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. Since its formation in 1978, it focused mainly on upholding civil and political rights. More recently it has begun to include social, cultural and economic rights. They do this by researching human rights abuses in all regions of the world, and then publishing the findings as widely as possible in the media. They also follow women's and children's rights. http://hrw.org/
The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples|The Peoples' Movement for Human Rights Education USA Expand view 211 East 43rd Street Suite 1104 New York NY 10017 The Peoples Movement for Human Rights Education is an international organisation that works directly and indirectly with its network of affiliates to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education in the context of struggles for social and economic justice and democracy. The organisation publishes and disseminates human rights training manuals and teaching materials. It was also pivotal in lobbying the United Nations to found a Decade for Human Rights Education. The website provides a wealth of information on a variety of topics, one of which includes indigenous peoples and how human rights apply to them. Children are also mentioned in a separate category, as well as ethnicity. For each topic, the human rights law is outlined as well as the commitments of governments to implementing the laws http://www.pdhre.org/rights/indigenous.html
Indigenous Knowledge Programme|World Bank USA Expand view 1818 H Street NW Washington DC 20433 The World Bank Group’s mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Indigenous Knowledge Programme manages a website which is a knowledge source designed to assist policy makers, programme managers, and practitioners in development approaches that rely on traditional knowledge systems to help achieve the millennium development goals. The team has developed a number of manuals, which can be accessed through the website, and manages the Bank's portfolio of indigenous knowledge projects and programmes https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/9792
Education for All|United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (EFA - UNESCO) France Expand view 7 Place de Fontenoy 75352 Paris 07 SP The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation programme 'Education for All' is a global campaign, born in 1990 at the World Conference on Education for all in Jomtien in Thailand. It has six goals, three of which are based around inclusive basic and primary education. These are (i) improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children (ii) ensuring all children have access to quality primary education by 2015, including girls and ethnic minorities, (iii) eliminating gender disparities in primary education by 2015. An evaluation undertaken in 1998 showed that these goals were only partially being met, with the worst performers in the South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa regions. A new conference took place in Dakar, Senegal to reinvigorate committment to the Education For All programme. In the 1990s education was recognised as a right, and the important role it plays in social and economic development gave new momentum to NGOs and and civil society working in this area. Against this background, there is renewed optimism in achieving the aims of this campaign http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/index.shtml
Save the Children, Sweden|Radda Barnen Sweden Expand view SE – 107 88 Stockholm Save the Children Sweden is an active member of the International Save the Children Alliance. Outside of Sweden, Save the Children Sweden often works with domestic organisations so that they in turn can affect decision makers and legislation. They give financial support for short term projects, but mainly focus nationally and internationally on supporting, starting-up and running long term projects for children's rights. They work on projects with children of all ages, but have recently begun to explore the concept of human rights and 'evolving capacities' of young children, in particular regarding their work on young children and families. They supported a publication produced by the Innocenti Research Centre, UNICEF entitled: 'The evolving capacities of the child' http://www.rb.se/eng
Plan International UK Expand view Dukes Court Block A Duke Street Woking Surrey G21 5BH Plan International aims to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of deprived children in developing countries through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and value to their lives by (i) enabling deprived children, their families, and their communities to meet their basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies, (ii) building relationships to increase understanding and unity among people of different cultures and countries and (iii) promote the rights and interests of the world's children. Plan works on a variety of themes, specifically focusing on education, health, habitat, livelihoods and building relationships. They are currently running a campaign for universal birth registration http://www.plan-international.org
