Organisations

Child-To-Child Kenya

Kenya

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PO Box 19859
Nairobi

Aims to promote and preserve the health of communities worldwide by encouraging and enabling children to play an active and responsible role in the health and development of themselves, other children, their families and the community at large. the resource centre is open to the public

Centro de Estudios Economicos y Sociales de la Juventud (CEPESJU)

Peru

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Coronel Zegarra 722
Jesus Maria
Lima 11

CESIP works for the strengthening of civil society and building skills for personal development, community leadership and management, and the exercising of citizens’ rights by women, children and adolescents. Its mission is to contribute to “building citizenship with equity.” CESIP constucts programmes for the benefit of children, adolencents and youth in order to better their chances of taking control of and making their own lives better. The CEPESJU resource centre is open to the public

International Nursing Services Ass, India (INSA/INDIA)

India

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5/1 Benson Cross Road Benson Town, Bangalore Karnataka 560046

The organisation trains trainers to establish need based health development and AIDS prevention projects in remote areas of India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The training programmes conducted offer follow-up services to each trainee in their place of work and establishes a long term relationship with the trainee. The training programme deals with all aspects of health.

Children First

South Africa

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2201/4 Commercial City
40 Commercial Road
Durban 4000

Children First is committed to presenting African perspectives on the situation of children in South Africa and Africa. In addition to producing the newsletter ChildrenFIRST Children First has also created the space for children to be heard through specially convened Children's Voices workshops. It is also involved in a number of networks in the children's sector be they for the purposes of lobbying, advocacy, policy discussions, or the sharing of experiences and knowledge

Education for All|United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (EFA - UNESCO)

France

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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

Save the Children, Sweden|Radda Barnen

Sweden

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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'

Plan International

UK

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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

Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning|Open University

UK

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Faculty of Education and Language Studies
Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

The Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning is based in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University. It is an interdisciplinary faculty based on six different centres focusing on education, language and comunication and children. Michael Woodhead is professor of childhood studies, with research interests in interdisciplinary childhood studies, applied research and policy analysis, international studies in early childhood education and care, children's rights and child labour. Amongst other things, he has written a publication for the Bernard Van Leer Foundation entitled 'In search of the rainbow - pathways to quality in large-scale programmes for young disadvantaged children'. This book examines issues of quality development in early childhood programmes, focusing on cultural variables relating to communities and individuals

BRAC

Bangladesh

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75 Mohakhali
Dhaka 1212

Our mission is to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. Our interventions aim to achieve large scale, positive changes through economic and social programmes that enable women and men to realise their potential.

(Previously Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee)

Early Childhood Development Intercultural Partnerships (ECDIP)

Canada

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School of Child and Youth Care
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria
BC V8W 2Y2

Early Childhood Development Intercultural Partnerships is an ongoing programme of community-university research contributing to knowledge about conditions affecting the health and development of indigenous children in Canada and around the world. Collaborative projects strengthen capacity for developing and demonstrating research, ethics, methods, tools and programmes that resonate with indigenous communities and cultures. The main focus of the organisation is on aborginal peoples in Canada, and there are currently a number of specific projects within this target group, including the following examples: (i) incorporation of indigenous knowledge in aborginal early childhood programmes, (ii) indigenous child project, (iii) indigenous fatherhood and (iv) integrated services for commuity health

International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD)

Canada

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Centre for Global Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700
Victoria BC
V8V 2Y2

The mission of the International Institute of Child Rights and Development is to enhance the capacity of individuals, organisations and governments to effectively use the UN convention on the Rights of the Child. Their projects focus on engaging children as positive partners of change, supporting indigenous children in education, protection of children with HIV/AIDS, and creating a culture of children's rights. Their method of working is through capacity building activities, establishing networks and partnerships at the local level, carrying out community consultations and undertaking child-centered participatory research. They work with children of all ages from the early years upwards. Their publications are strongly orientated towards cultural diversity and rights of children, and tend to be practical manual guides in implementing a rights based approach

AIDS and Society Research Unit (ASRU)

South Africa

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Rm 4.29, 4th Floor
Leslie Social Science Bldg
Groote Schuur Campus, University of Cape Town
Rondebosch
Cape Town

ASRU supports qualitative and quantitative research on the social and economic dimensions of AIDS in South Africa. Its action research agenda originated in 2001 as the Memory Box Project - an intervention designed to help people come to terms with their diagnosis, disclose their HIV-status to their children and begin the process of succession planning. The focus of its research and projects has now shifted from 'preparing for death' to positive living. Current research initiatives engage with a number of related areas, such as stigma, sexual relationships in the age of AIDS, social and economic factors, influencing disclosure (of HIV-status to others), policy analysis with a focus on the rollout of antiretroviral treatment, impact of providing antiretroviral treatment on individuals and households

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