NEWS FROM ICDP CHAIRMAN

OSLO, NORWAY

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT

ICDP Norway is now working closely with the Ministry for Children and Family Affairs implementing ICDP throughout Norway. In addition to the general implementation of ICDP as a preventive project for children, there are also adaptations of the program to special target groups such as, children with special needs, caregivers and children under protection, caregivers in prison, and caregivers with ethnic minority status.

The Ministry has approved our application for a nationwide evaluation of the ICDP work in Norway. Professor Lorraine Sherr from the University of London will be in charge of the evaluation assisted by a team from the Ministry and ICDP.

NEW PROJECT

ICDP has just finished a pre-project relating to refugees and asylum seekers who are placed in refugee centres around Norway. The conditions for parents and children in these centres are not always the best and this reason that the Ministry for Children and Family Affairs decided that ICDP should be introduced to this new target group. This plus the work with immigrants may become a major area of work for ICDP in the coming years.

ICDP ORGANIZATION

Our present greatest challenge both internationally and nationally is fund raising. We are very weak in this respect and we need assistance from professional people. We are at present trying to negotiate some ways of cooperating with the Bernard van Leer Foundation in Holland.

ICDP is in process of applying for a tax exempt status in Norway and this will be very important for future fund raising.

There have been some recent changed in our office as our secretary Trine has had a baby boy called Sebastian and will be on leave till July 2007. Our treasurer Ylva will be doing the required secretarial work on part time basis.

     

                 Ylva                         Trine and Sebastian visiting the office

 

ICDP IN MOZAMBIQUE

Taken from a report recently sent by Pedro Mendes:

In Kanimambo the work by the vocational trainers and activists is continuing well after the training. It is quite clear that there is a new spirit and awareness about about their roles, about the relationship between themselves and above all their relationship with children.

It is remarkable and worthwhile mentioning that the vocational trainers are mostly illiterate and yet they have been recognised by the rest of the educational team as persons with an important role in the project; this can be illustrated by some encouraging statements such as ‘I wish that you (Silvia, a vocational trainer) could be here with us as a teacher’. The vocational trainers nevertheless do require some assistance in planning and organizing of their didactic work to make their education approach more logical and accessible to children.

Mozambican ICDP team sensitizing a group of vocational trainers as the first step in their capacity building.

 

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