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Network Notes COORDINATORS’ NOTEBOOK, ISSUE 22
Activities
of the
Partners
Rädda Barnen
—Welcome!
Rädda Barnen (Swedish Save the Children) has recently joined the CG
and we welcome them! Early childhood is integrated into everything
Rädda Barnen does for children, rather than being segregated as a
separate programming focus. Rädda Barnen’s work focuses largely on
children’s rights, and the “prevention of exclusion”, which means providing
children-at-risk with supports they need to survive, develop and
participate in their culture. The priority groups are children in hazardous
work, children on the streets, children in armed conflict, children
in emergency situations, and children with disabilities.
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Within the International Programme, Rädda Barnen:
supports an ECD network in South Africa;
supports demonstration projects in South Africa and daycare centres
in Bangladesh;
supports local NGOs to provide services and conduct action
research on the care of children;
conducts child-focused research; and
supports local NGOs working on issues of inclusion within
Vietnam, Yemen, and Cape Verde.
They also support parent associations in several countries as part of
their advocacy efforts. Recently they began a new initiative to collect
case studies/examples of innovative community-based projects, and
to document these within a booklet which will look at mechanisms
for community capacity-building activities.
Rädda Barnen also develops materials aimed at increasing knowledge in
child development and the socialisation of children. They have an
extensive publication list, which can be accessed through their Web Site.
For more information contact, Birgitta Galldin-Äberg, Rädda
Barnen, SE107 88 Stockholm, SWEDEN, Tel: 46-8-698 9000/9071
Direct, Fax: 46-8-698 9012, E-mail: birgitta.galldin-aberg@rb.se
UNICEF
Great things are happening within UNICEF in relation to <strong>ECCD</strong>! At a
meeting held in late 1997, <strong>ECCD</strong> was proposed as a top priority for
UNICEF. Since then a number of meetings have been held to help shape
UNICEF’s vision of what it wants to accomplish within a holistic
<strong>ECCD</strong> framework.
A meeting in March 1998 in Karachi, Pakistan brought together
educators, health professionals, and other early childhood/family advocates
from Asia, who together developed a definition of <strong>ECCD</strong> and
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