About UNICEF: Who we are - Multiple emergencies and a new focus on reaching the most vulnerable children Multiple emergencies and a new focus on reaching the most vulnerable children NEW YORK, USA, 30 December 2010 – For UNICEF and the world’s children, the past 12 months have been marked by unprecedented difficulties and extraordinary opportunities. As 2010 draws to a close, it’s worth highlighting some of the moments that made this a year like no other. The year began, tragically and ominously, with the devastating earthquake in Haiti on 12 January. As Haitians dug out from the rubble, humanitarian aid agencies responded with life-saving aid. More recently, however, a cholera outbreak has killed thousands and sickened many more in Haiti, driving home the need for continued vigilance against conditions that breed waterborne disease. Spurred into action The crisis in Haiti was just one of a series of emergencies that spurred UNICEF and its partners into action in 2010. Monsoon floods in Pakistan, for example, caused devastation on a massive scale. Equity and development
Emergent Futures Mapping with Futurescaper Futurescaper is an online tool for making sense of the drivers, trends and forces that will shape the future. As a user interface system, it still needs development. As a tool for analyzing and understanding complex systems, it works very well and does something I have yet to see anything else be able to do. Several people asked me about this after my last post, so here is some more detail. Following the logic of collective intelligence (as part of my my PhD), I broke up the the scenario thinking process into discrete chunks, came up with a system for analyzing and relating them together, and then distilled them into key outputs for helping the scenario development process. Emergent Thematic Maps One of the coolest things about Futurescaper is how it translates simple input into complex analysis, and then back again into simple insights. To demonstrate this, I tested the system using data from an International Futures Forum project on international climate change impacts for UK Foresight.
Pre-school at $50 daily Peter Sourlango (5), Andrea Lassandro (3) and Eve Kidston (4) playing at the Building Better Blocks Early Learning Centre childcare in Alexandria, Sydney, NSW. Picture: Dan Himbrechts Source: The Daily Telegraph NSW families are paying as much as $50 a day for their child's vital year of pre-school education while, in other states, the governments provide early childhood learning for free or a minimal charge. The fees mean many children do not attend pre-school in the year before they begin kindergarten as their families struggle with the cost. Community organisations, which run the majority of pre-schools across the state, have called for an increase in government funding so every child has access to pre-school education. Chief executive officer of SDN Children's Services Ginie Udy said the Government had to stop thinking about funding for early childhood services as a cost and recognise it as an investment. The plan aims to create an 5250 extra places by 2013.
Curso Gratuito de Adsense El artículo de hoy va a ser un poco diferente a los que suelo publicar en el blog. Llevo varias semanas trabajando este artículo porque creo que va a ser algo que posiblemente te ayude a crearte un buen ingreso extra a final de mes. Se trata de un curso paso a paso, sobre como encontrar un nicho de mercado interesante, y explotarlo económicamente. La clave está en crear varias páginas dedicadas a Adsense, y que cada una de ellas te de varios euros diarios de ganancia. Cuantas más páginas tengas, más ganarás a final de mes. Aprenderemos a crear páginas donde insertaremos unos anuncios que Google nos proporcionará de forma automática (Adsense) y cada vez que alguien haga click sobre alguno de estos anuncios, tu te llevarás dinero. Suena a truco del «tocomocho» o algún curso de «engañabobos»? Hay mucha gente que vive de esto. Empezamos? 1. Lo primero que tendrás que hacer, es crearte una cuenta en Google Adsense. 2. Searchmetrics Es la herramienta más increible que ha usado en muchos años. 3.
Preschoolers better at navigating iPhone than tying their shoes Hand a two-year-old child a shoe and she will probably end up throwing it. Hand her an iPhone, however, and she'll navigate through it to find her favorite app in no time. Those are two lessons that I (and other members of the Ars staff) have learned first-hand in recent years, but it's not just us. According to a new survey from security software maker AVG, kids can grasp new tech skills long before they even learn how to do normal kid things, such as swimming or tying their shoelaces. AVG surveyed 2,200 parents with children between the ages of two and five in the US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Nineteen percent said their kids know how to access a smartphone application (and it's not just the older kids either—17 percent of 2- to 3-year-olds did as well). Online safety is definitely becoming an issue to start thinking about at birth instead of later in life.
New Web Site Encourages Charities to Admit Errors - World View For the past two years, I’ve called for charities to admit their failures. I wrote about this issue just last week. So I’m happy to announce that on January 14, a new Web site was launched to provide a platform for admitting mistakes, and it’s aptly named admittingfailure.com, created by Engineers Without Borders Canada. In addition, Engineers Without Borders Canada released its 2011 Failure Report, detailing more projects that did not achieve full success. In its press release announcing the new site, Engineers Without Borders described its goals for the new Web site as an “effort to get a seemingly simple but virtually non-existent practice adopted throughout the development sector.” The announcement continues, “The need for this sort of practice is summarized by [international-development veteran] Ian Smillie in his conclusion authored for the Failure Report: ‘The development business is largely uncharted territory. What do you think? Return to Top
Low Overhead Doesn't Equal High-Quality Philanthropy - World View A series of posts about the misconceptions created by charity Web sites continues today. Misconception No. 4: Low administrative costs are a good indicator of the quality of the organization According to Money for Good, the amount spent on administration costs is the number one item that donors look for when deciding whether or not to give. The problems caused by the incessant need to keep overhead at a minimum are well laid out in the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s article “The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle.” This misconception is probably the hardest one to break for two reasons. I hope with the pending release of Charity Navigator 2.0, which uses indicators of effectiveness and results, more rating systems will decrease their emphasis on administration costs in determining nonprofit scores. Second, nonprofit groups actively reinforce the misconceptions when their Web sites tout their low administrative costs. What message is your organization’s Web site giving donors? Return to Top
Region's first Foundation dedicated to Early Childhood Development The Foundation for the Development of Caribbean Children (FDCC), is the region's first indigenous foundation dedicated to early childhood development. BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday January 27, 2010 - The Foundation for the Development of Caribbean Children (FDCC), the region’s first indigenous foundation dedicated to early childhood development, convened its first members’meeting on Saturday January 15, 2011 at the Accra Beach Hotel in Christ Church, Barbados. The founding members of the FDCC include regional representatives from the financial, education and business sector as well as the legal fraternity and regional organisations, and represent a slice of the Caribbean, hailing from St. Lucia, Dominica, Jamaica, Barbados and Grenada. A major outcome of the meeting following a thorough review of the draft presented was full endorsement of the Foundation’s By-laws, which speak to issues critical to the governance of the FDCC. The CCSI Programme Director, Ms. Contact: Clive Murray
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GGD Actueel Integrale aanpak preventie overgewicht bij kinderen van 0-19 jaar Het aantal kinderen en jeugdigen met overgewicht neemt nog steeds toe. Overgewicht wordt vooral veroorzaakt door te weinig bewegen, ongezonde eetgewoonten en/of het ontbreken van het goede voorbeeld in het maken van gezonde keuzes. In de regio Gooi en Vechtstreek is de situatie gunstiger vergeleken met de rest van Nederland en dat willen we graag zo houden! Het programma Gooi in Beweging heeft daarom als doel: De jeugd in Gooi en Vechtstreek op gezond gewicht houden Kinderen met een gezond gewicht voelen zich prettiger. Twee lijnen Om het doel te bereiken kent het programma Gooi in Beweging twee lijnen: Alle kinderen hebben een gezond gewicht, door voldoende beweging, goede voeding en de manier waarop ouders daarmee omgaan (opvoeding). Ouders, school, kinderopvang, sportverenigingen, jeugdgezondheidszorg en welzijnswerk kunnen daar hun steentje aan bijdragen. Meer informatie Brigit Hamburg Projectleider 'Gooi in Beweging'
EAST AFRICA: Albinos still targeted for body parts | Kenya | Health & Nutrition At least 10,000 people with albinism in Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi abandoned their villages and went into hiding between 2007 and 2009 NAIROBI, 11 February 2011 (IRIN) - Thousands of people with albinism in Tanzania and Kenya have left their home villages out of fear of persecution and moved to live in urban areas where they believe they are safer, according to activists defending the rights of albinos. “Many albinos are [moving] more and more to big cities and escaping their villages,” Ernest Kimaya, chairperson of the Tanzania Albino Society, said. "But the Tanzanian government has [made] a big effort to make sure that the killings of albinos are stopped by strengthening the protection of albinos in the villages.” Kimaya, who was speaking on 10 February at a public lecture in Nairobi to raise awareness about albinism, said his society had so far registered 7,124 albinos in Tanzania, of whom 3,580 are female. Thousands in hiding cm/eo/cb
Heel Amphia alert op kindermishandeling - Breda BREDA - Het hele Amphia Ziekenhuis is voortaan alert op kindermishandeling. Op alle afdelingen waar kinderen aangemeld of behandeld worden worden artsen en verpleegkundigen geacht te signaleren of sprake kan zijn van kindermishandeling. Het Amphia claimt daarmee vermoedelijk het eerste ziekenhuis in Nederland te zijn waar 'screening' naar kindermisbruik (lichamelijk, psychische en seksueel) op alle afdelingen plaatsvindt. De cijfers geven daar aanleiding voor. Volgens het Amphia Ziekenhuis worden er jaarlijks in heel Nederland tussen de 150.000 en 350.000 kinderen mishandeld. Bij een vermoeden van mishandeling is de behandelend arts verplicht een screeningsformulier in te vullen. Dr. Dr. Kindergarten: A Glimpse of the City We Will Become « Smart City Memphis Marie Sell of Memphis City Schools and Doug Imig of University of Memphis have written a brief that all of us should read, especially in light of the ongoing discussion about public education in Memphis: Across the country, children from more affluent families are more likely to be ready for school when they reach kindergarten. This relationship matters for Memphis, where most school-children come from low-income families and neighborhoods. It also matters because when children are ready for kindergarten they are more likely to continue to do well through school, graduate, and go on to college. To evaluate school readiness, Memphis City Schools uses a screening tool called the Kindergarten Readiness Indicator (KRI). Since the fall of 2006, Memphis City Schools (MCS) has used the KRI to provide teachers with a quick assessment of incoming students’ language and math skills. In a sense, the KRI offers a way to talk about the early life experiences of children in our community.
Study: Average of 26 children hurt by cribs every day A baby's crib is often one of the few places where parents can place their child and feel OK leaving the baby unattended. It's the focal point of most nurseries, a must-have item on many baby registries. Yet an average of 26 children suffer a crib-related injury every day, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. "The most significant findings for me was the number of injuries," said Dr. Gary A. Smith, lead author of the study and director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Smith said his team is the first to investigate how many fatal and non-fatal injuries young children suffer from cribs, bassinets, and playpens. "Children are top-heavy," explained Smith. The U.S. Parents concerned about the safety of their child's crib can get additional information on nursery safety from the Center for Injury Research and Policy here.