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Activities of the Secretariat helped to facilitate a three-week Institute in <strong>ECCD</strong>, held at the University of Namibia, which brought together 26 participants from eleven African countries (including representatives of NGOs, their government counterparts, and UNICEF personnel), funded by UNICEF. ECDNA also facilitated a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa in December 1997, which looked at policy and programming for children 0–3 in Africa (in collaboration with the World Bank and UNICEF). The second part of the meeting focused on the evolution of the ECDNA network. Out of this meeting, plans were evolved for 1998-99. These plans include the documentation and dissemination of the three case studies presented in the Cape Town meeting, targeting policy makers, programme planners, and implementers. The group would like to carry out a joint Action Research project in three to five countries, looking at the socialisation of the girl child (and building upon work completed in an international study of this topic facilitated by the CG in 1996, using participants in the earlier study from Morocco and Mali as facilitators). ECDNA coordinated an <strong>ECCD</strong> Institute (“Summer School”) for Francophone West Africa in November 1998 in collaboration with the UNICEF regional office in Abidjan. Central Asia: Ayla Göksel Mother Child Education Foundation Cumhuriyet Cad. No 18/4 Elmadag Istanbul, TURKEY Tel: (90-212) 234-0200; Fax: (90-212) 234-0106 E-mail: acevist@turk.net The first seeds have been sown in the establishment of an <strong>ECCD</strong> network within Central Asia (including Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Tajikistan, Kurdistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey). Interested organisations and people working in the region have made initial contacts, and a seed grant was received from the Aga Khan Foundation to pursue a mapping of <strong>ECCD</strong> programmes and issues in the region. Aga Khan Foundation will also contribute knowledge and experience it has gained from its work in Tajikistan to the effort. The countries in this region were mostly socialist but are now experiencing shifts, which include the collapse of infrastructures and changing economies. Health problems are prominent within the region. It appears that little international mapping of the situation (or development activity) for young children has been conducted, so reaching out to find key people and institutions that are concerned with <strong>ECCD</strong> is an important first step. Plans for the region include collaborating in an International Literacy meeting to be held in May 1999, to raise awareness of the ways that literacy programmes can be used to strengthen parenting practices and to support mothers. In addition, the Eight is Too Late fact sheets produced by the CG have been translated into Turkish, and UNESCO has agreed to translate them into Russian as well, to use as a basis for initiating conversations with NGOs and governments working in the region, and for promoting interest in a meeting to look at needs of young children and their families. Network Notes COORDINATORS’ NOTEBOOK, ISSUE 22 63
Network Notes COORDINATORS’ NOTEBOOK, ISSUE 22 During the summer of 1998, a field trip (with fact-finding and initial dialogue as its main purpose) was undertaken to identify people that could work on a basic situation analysis in relation to <strong>ECCD</strong> provision. Those identified were given guidelines on the types of information to be gathered and introduced to the idea of the regional network. Eastern Europe: Mihalyne (Marta) Korintus Ms. Mihalyne Marta Korintus Pro Excellentia Foundation 1134 Budapest, Tüzér u. 33-35 Hungary Office Tel/Fax: 36-1-320-9055; Home Tel/Fax: 36-1-335-6531 E-mail: mkorin@helka.iif.huNational This is the newest of the regional networks. Discussions about developing a network in Eastern Europe began shortly before the CG annual meeting in April. Since the meeting contacts have been made with interested colleagues in several Eastern European countries who could form the nucleus of a network. (Because many Eastern European countries had extensive early childhood care systems and policies when they were socialist states, there is extensive expertise on the subject in the region.) In addition, there are other networks that have expressed interest in being associated with the CG, including one developed through the Soros Foundation. Donor interest in the region is also high, including the UNICEF Regional Education Office, which has expressed interest in helping to support the development of an Eastern European network. 64
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