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February 2006:         

 

ICDP IN THE NORTH OF NORWAY

Professor Karsten Hundeide visits Karasjok, 3 hours drive from Alta, to start ICDP training of the local professionals, who will later be responsible for spreading the ICDP psychosocial intervention programme to families living in the surrounding communities in this northern area of Norway.

 

ASUNCION, PARAGUAY: ICDP selected for funding by BID

The application for an ICDP community based project, to be developed in a small town 30 km from Asuncion, has been selected for funding at the recent contest opened by the Education Ministry. The project will be funded by the Inter-American Bank for Development (BID). Click to see project proposal.

 

NEWS FROM BRAZIL: ICDP project approved

An ICDP project has been approved for funding by the municipalities of Florianopolis, Biguaçu, São José and  Palhoça. It will train 60 facilitators 600 promoters in order to reach 6000 families and 15 000 children in the local communities. Seed funding by SD Britain.

 

COLOMBIA: THE BOYACA PROJECT

Boyaca: Group of local children

On 7 - 9th February ICDP evaluation workshops are taking place in the following towns of Boyaca: Tunja, Soata, Sogamaso, Miraflores y Chiquinquira, Otanche, Duitama, Garagoa y Cocuy.

These workshops will be attended by some members of the evaluation team from the two local universities: UNIBOYACA and UPTC. They will be filming and conducting interviews with trained facilitators.

ACCREDITATION CEREMONY :

The accreditation ceremony is planned to take place simultaneously in all the towns of the Boyaca province. At this event the 900 trained facilitators will receive diplomas and some will give accounts of their experiences in working with ICDP during 2005.

 

First lady of Boyaca exemplifying ICDP principles

 

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