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COP27: ICDI’s take on climate change and children’s lives
Introduction to COP27 The UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits for nearly three decades on the so-called “COP”, which stands for “Conference of the Parties“. World leaders, policymakers and intergovernmental organisations are involved in reaching an agreement on how to tackle climate change together. The COP takes…
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‘Play for Inclusion’ Handbook: a new resource for professionals working with refugee children and their caregivers
ICDI is happy to share the ‘Play for Inclusion’ Handbook, a new resource for practitioners who work in non-formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services supporting the integration and psychosocial well-being of young refugee children and their caregivers. Around 7.9 million Ukrainian refugees were registered across Europe since the beginning of the war. Of these, 40%…
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ICDI joins and supports the ‘Orange the World Campaign’
This global campaign aims to end violence against women and girls and takes place annually from 25 November, the International Day or the Elimination of Violence Against Women to 10 December, International Human Rights Day. Through our projects we work on empowering girls and strengthening girls and boys while investing in their knowledge, skills and…
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An article on ICDI’s SEED project published in ‘Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood’
Three years after the end of the project ‘SEED: Social and Emotional Education and Development’, the Norwegian researchers from Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education, Trondheim, who participated in the project, together with ICDI’s former Senior Programme Manager Margaret Kernan, published an open-access article in ‘Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood’. It illustrates some…
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ICDI teleurgesteld over besluit voortzetten adopties uit 6 landen
Gisteren maakte minister voor Rechtsbescherming Weerwind bekend dat het adopteren van kinderen uit het buitenland mogelijk blijft uit 6 landen: de Filipijnen, Hongarije, Lesotho, Taiwan, Thailand en Zuid-Afrika. Mogelijk komen hier later Bulgarije en Portugal nog bij. De minister besloot dit naar aanleiding van het advies van de RSJ, die onderzoek deed naar de criteria voor…
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Places to Grow in Hungary and 2nd study visit to Play Hubs
Last October 2022, Mariana Palazuelos and Luisa Tesch from ICDI together with Éva Deák from Partners Hungry Foundation delivered a training on the Integration of Services in Eger, Hungary, which was followed by a study visit to the Play Hub in Nagydobos, Hungary. The training and study visit was organised together with the Carpathian Foundation…
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Training for law enforcement in Ukraine: online sexual violence
Yesterday, ICDI, in cooperation with long-standing partner Labour and Health Social Initiatives (LHSI), provided an online training about online sexual violence. The training was part of the LHSI project ‘Empowering Law Enforcement in Overcoming online Violence against Children’, which focuses on preventing online sexual violence of Ukrainian youth. The project is funded by the EU.…
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Places to Grow in Slovakia and 1st study visit to Play Hubs
Last September 2022, ICDI and our local partner Škola dokorán organised the first study visit within the Places to Grow Programme in Slovakia. Catarina Alves represented ICDI during this visit. Places to Grow aims to promote coordination among Early Childhood Development (ECD) services for children from marginalised communities and ethnic minorities (e.g., Roma), to build…
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Training for Play Hubs in Slovakia that support Ukrainian children and families
On the last weekend of August, Giulia Cortellesi and Luisa Tesch from ICDI facilitated a three-day training for new Play Hubs in Slovakia. Škola dokorán , our long-standing partner and national coordinator of the TOY for Inclusion programme in Slovakia, together with UNICEF, opened six new Play Hubs for Ukrainian children and families (read more about these Play…
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Our Annual Report is out!
Many of us may have hoped that 2020 would soon be over, since it had been a year filled with many difficulties around the world. Yet, 2021 also posed many challenges. It was not until now that we came to realise the mid- and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychosocial well-being of…
