EARLIER
NEWS
DECEMBER
2008
Merry
Christmas from the ICDP international team!
NORWAY
ICDP
PROJECT FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES: The
pilot project led by Karsten Hundeide, which adapted ICDP methodology
to offer assistance to asylum seekers has finished and the first
report has been produced. A specially adapted ICDP manual for facilitators
and caregivers at reception centres is under way. The evaluation
of this pilot project is also in process of being finished and will
be presented on the last day of December. ICDP's work received very
positive feedback at the national conference on refugees living
in reception centres, which was recently held in Oslo . The plan
is to implement the ICDP programme next year in all reception centres
in Norway. It is still unclear whether this should be organized
directly under ICDP or under the Ministry.
OSLO
UNIVERSITY: Henning Rye and Hilde Tornes, together in cooperation
with the Ministry, are in process of negotiations with the Oslo
university, preparing the ground and terms that would allow for
an ICDP course to be inserted as part of the Master programme for
students at the Special Needs Institute. The course would, in addition
to teaching the theoretical basis, also involve practical application
of the ICDP programme and would lead to certification of students
as ICDP Facilitators.
BERGEN:
ICDP has recently been the focus for the training that took place
in Bergen preschools. Twenty preschool leaders have received ICDP
training with the aim of enriching their knowledge on the
topic of relations.
PLAN
INTERNATIONAL: The ICDP programme is being implemented
very successfully by Plan Guatemala as part of their Child Protection
strategy and activity in Guatemala. Nicoletta Armstrong who led
the ICDP training of a core team in Guatemala recently
visited the Plan Norge team in Oslo in order to present this work
and make plans for further expansion . (Plan Guatemala and
Plan Norge are both members of Plan International, a large organization
working in 66 countries around the world).
BLUE
CROSS CONFERENCE IN BRAZIL
ICDP
was invited to give a presentation and participate at the third
International Blue Cross Network Conference in Sao Bento do Sul,
which gathered 200 participants from all over the world. The International
Federation of the Blue Cross (IFBC) is a politically and denominationally
independent umbrella organization of about 40 member organizations
mainly in Africa Europe, Brazil and India working in the prevention,
treatment and aftercare of alcohol and drug dependent individuals
and families.
Geir Gundersen,
president IFBC
Heidi Steel (IFBC) and Afonso Luft (ICDP Brazil)
The
main focus of the conference was on assistance programmes for children
and families at risk, on early intervention for young people, as
well as on fundraising. This event marked the start of ICDP cooperation
with the Blue Cross and plans were made for an ICDP pilot project
to start in Lesotho in February 2009.
NOVEMBER
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COLOMBIA
Dora
Lillia Amata Aristizabal informs us: " The second phase of
the ICDP project with the indigenous Indian community Embera Chami
has been completed. The project succeeded to bring the difficult
situation of 17 isolated families, living in the mountains near
Cordoba, Quindio, to the attention of the local authorities. As
result there is now education and health care provision for children
and their parents. The mayor approved the building of adequate sanitation
and a kitchen to cater for the whole community. We acted as mediators
between the community and the local government and now our task
is just to offer some additional support. With ICDP we saw results,
as the high levels of violent behaviour have diminished, although
there is more to be done. The community has started to show more
caring behaviour towards each other and especially towards children;
the young people are now seeking and finding employment from the
nearby farms, whereas before they were only interested in stealing
and some had previously committed suicide out of desperation."
Read
report in Spanish
Dora Lillia Amata
Aristizabal
EVALUATION
OF ICDP
Colombian
trainers Two
of the Norwegian evaluators
Evaluators in El Salvador
The impact of
the implementation of the ICDP programme is in process of being
evaluated in research studies that are carried out in Norway, Colombia
and El Salvador.
SAN
SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR
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A trainer level
workshop was held by an ICDP international consultant in San Salvador
which gathered the core group of trained personnel from ISNA, education
and health sectors. There were 50 participants and 24 candidate
trainers so far.
 
A candidate
trainer from Guatemala also participated. This allowed for sharing
of practical experiences between the two countries which was beneficial
to all.
 
Candidate trainers
shared about lessons learned from their practical work in the field,
both in the capacity as trainers of others and in the capacity of
working directly with families. The ICDP material is in process
of being adapted to local culture with photos and videos representing
local examples of adult-child interactions.
ANTRATSIT,
UKRAINE
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"Little
things make big changes" is the name of the International
conference that was held on the premises of 'School #5' in Antratsit.
it was organized by the Ukrainian NGO 'Women for the Future' and
in cooperation with the Norwegian Peace Association.
 
Photos: Olena
Dobridnyeva, school principal opening the conference; welcoming
song by pupils
The conference
gathered 86 participants from different regions of Ukraine, Norway,
Britain and Moldova. ICDP was invited to present its programme and
methodology, which was found very relevant and was well accepted.
The main topics discussed at the conference included: the role of
a democratic school in the process of formation of civil society,
sharing national and international experience about inclusive education,
main trends in the rehabilitation process of children and youth
with special needs, the role of social projects in school education,
significance of early psycho-social intervention programmes for
families. On the last day there was a round table discussion which
summarized the conference and accepted its resolutions. There was
unanimous agreement that the conference provided new extremely valuable
insights, project experiences and methodologies, motivating and
energizing for further action its already highly committed participants.
OCTOBER
ICDP
PORTUGAL IN ACTION
From ICDP trainer
Penélope Villar: - With the conclusion of the work performed
in Lisbon in May 2007, ICDP Portugal sensitised its first group
of Promoters.... read
article: www.icdpportugal.blogspot.com
ICDP
AGM
The ICDP AGM
in Lisbon that took place from 9-1th October focused on formulating
ICDP development and fundraising strategies, as well as considering
organizational restructuring and creating of new didactic tools
to enable the future growth of our work, whose main targets will
continue to be vulnerable, neglected children and families at psychosocial
risk.
The present
ICDP board members are: Karsten Hundeide, chairman, Santana Momade,
Nicoletta Armstrong, Virginia Thomas, Stephan Solat and Penélope
Villar. The current scope of ICDP activities, achievements, needs
and difficulties was shared through board members' reports, all
of which revealed a considerable expansion of our work in the world,
as well as an ever increasing demand for further developments in
Africa, Latin America and Europe.
ICDP work has
received awards in Norway (The "teaching prize 2007" to
the Agency of Health and Welfare in Oslo for their use of the ICDP
programme) and Colombia (the National Award for Human rights for
ICDP work by the department of Boyaca).
The board drew
a distinction between two types of developments: one where ICDP
initiates activities as project holder and the other more typical
development where ICDP answers requests for competence building
consultancy service, without being the project holder. ICDP has
particularly strong presence in several countries: Norway (spread
over a large part of the country through the Ministry of Children
and Equality), Sweden (through health care, family centres, preschools,
social care services), Mozambique (four year large training project
sponsored by NORAD), Colombia (projects covering 6 provinces cooperating
with Unicef, the local governments and ministries of Education,
Health and Social Services) and El Salvador (national programme
coordinated by ISNA, cooperation with Unicef).
A 3 year research
project is evaluating ICDP work in Norway, a one year evaluation
study of ICDP in Colombia will be ready by June 2009, and an evaluation
is being planned for the work in Mozambique.
An African network
has already started to be formed whereas funding for the formation
of a Latin American network will be sought in 2009.
Three committees
were created:
1. The professional
committee will examine the ICDP policies and procedures, the training
programme, ICDP manuals and other materials, as well as criteria
for use and protection of the ICDP programme.
2. The evaluation
committee will produce standards for monitoring and evaluation.
3. The fundraising
committee will take on the task of approaching new donor and developmental
agencies. In addition to its main task of securing funding for new
project developments, there is an urgent need to secure sustainability
of funding of our core organization and head office.
The board decided
on activities in 2009 which, among other, will include an international
training seminar, professional workshop for trainers, training of
new persons as international consultants, translation and production
of new manuals, consolidation of existing projects as well as new
project developments in Africa (special focus on HIV/AIDS), Europe
(work with youth and migrants) and Latin America (early childhood
development and peace building in families).
NATIONAL
AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Dr. Gladys Constanza
Medina, (wife of the previous governor of Boyaca) wrote to congratulate
ICDP, informing that the Colombian National Award for Human Rights
was recently given to the Boyaca department where ICDP as their
flagship programme reached 70 000 families. She also writes: - The
ICDP pedagogy based on human love, its programme "I am a person
too" has constituted the best seed in achieving a healthier
society, a society which one day instead of learning about the concept
of democracy in the classroom will be living it from the cradle.
This beautiful methodology led to more then the award, it led those
who came across it to become happier people." The award ceremony
in Tunja will be attended by ICDP in early November. click
for more in Spanish
Photo from 18th
February 2005 showing the Governor of the Boyaca province launching
the ICDP project at a press conference in Tunja; the project is
ongoing
SEPTEMBER
COLOMBIA
After several
months of negotiations a new ICDP project starts in the province
of Santander, in close cooperation with the Health Ministry and
with the involvement of the Social Services (ICBF). The ICDP sensitization
programme will spread to 16 towns, by training agents from these
two networks who will implement the ICDP program directly with caregivers.
This initiative follows a successful smaller scale experience with
ICDP which took place in Santander during 2006/7. ICDP was interviewed
on local TV which launched the project mid September.
Photo above:
ICDP representatives set the date for first training workshops with
Health and Social Services, at a meeting held in the offices of
the Health Ministry in Bucaramanga
PARAGUAY
ICDP trainer
Benita Gavilan writes from Asuncion: "We are still continuing
with the ICDP work with parents from the Villeta area, as well as
running different activities with their children. The families speak
Guarani much more than Spanish in their everyday life, but fortunately
some of my colleagues are able to provide translations. The Villeta
project is financed by the Interamerican Development Bank and in
connection with the Ministry of Education. I am also involved in
the activities of the Working group for Early Childhood public policies,
of which I am a member. The new government has very recently designed
and presented an emergency Action Plan for 100 days, directed to
assist women, children and indigenous groups, and a special focus
is on poor families as almost half of the Paraguayan population
is poor. Street children are also one of the main targets of this
new government plan of assistance. With my team we are already working
with street working children in the Asuncion market where we run
a day centre for children at risk and their families; however we
feel that now in the new political panorama there may be good chances
of starting ICDP on a larger scale in Paraguay and for this reason
we will have a series of meetings with new Secretaries of State.
We hope to organize a public event where ICDP can be presented and
promoted in cooperation with the official authorities."
ARGENTINA
'Entrelazos'
is a private organization based in Buenos Aires that was formed
by a small group of professional with the purpose of spreading ICDP
in Argentina. Camila Romero recently sent us a power point presentation
giving a short overview of their activities ever since they first
received training from ICDP - click
here.
AUGUST
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MOZAMBIQUE
Taken from the
report by professor Karsten Hundeide from his visit to Mozambique:
Workshop on
the 7-8th of August: It was attended by local representatives and
staff from ICDP Mozambique, as well as representatives from other
countries: from Community Foundation for the Western Region of Zimbabwe,
from Care in South Africa, from Kiwakkuki women's organization in
Tanzania, from Save the Children in Maputo representing Save the
Children UK, US and NorwaY. The workshop was split into several
parts: - Presentation of ICDP for those who had no background and
upgrading for those who had already some knowledge; - Participants
reporting about their work in ICDP or Early Child Care; - Discussions
about the African network and how it could be implemented; - Field-visit
on the second day
Professor Hundeide
(far left) starting the workshop
The workshop
was a success and there was clearly a need for some upgrading but
also a need to report and to share experiences. It was quite impressive
what the South African representative told about the implementation
of ICDP in her region. She was also prepared to go into Lethoto
as this was quite near and she also spoke the local language. The
two representatives from Tanzania reported about their general work
in Kiwakkuki and how ICDP was integrated into their general work
of caring. Invioletta from Zimbabwe was representing a big Foundation
(Community Foundation for the Western Region of Zimbabwe) and she
told about their work in many sectors and how ICDP could be integrated
into this. Save the Children gave a review of their activities in
Mozambique and expressed interest in cooperating more with ICDP
in the future.
The African
ICDP network - All present expressed interest and willingness to
participate in this network and would also be included in a future
application to NORAD or any other funding agency that might be approached.
The possibility of expanding the network into project funding in
different countries was discussed.
The first visit
was to a preschool in Maputo, well-organized and well equipped with
more than 400 children. Most of the activities we saw were rhythmic
singing and drumming with collective gymnastics – all with
very little individual contact and caring directed to individual
children. The children however seemed to enjoy these exercises and
from a comparative point of view, we can consider this as an early
socialization into a collective authoritarian orientation and mentality.
Even babies were highly organized sitting in circles and obeying
the orders of the caregiver who was in charge. No crying and clinging
seemed to be allowed or was visible…. In another similar centre
the interesting aspect from the point of view of ICDP was the way
the preschool teacher used the garden area as an arena for mediation.
Groups of about ten children were led by one preschool teacher who
stopped at different points where she picked up a leaf or a flower
and asked the children questions about it. This had all the aspects
of the meaning dialogue from focussing, meaning to expansion and
it took place in a dialogue, not with one individual child, but
with the group, and the children answered either collectively or
one individual child answered. All this took place in a disciplined
and organized way, all children obeyed and were focussed on the
interaction that took place. But the whole interaction seemed to
be very much teacher oriented, I could not see much initiatives
from the children like asking questions about the plants they observed.
It was all within the frame of lessons and answering the correct
questions – of traditional authoritarian pedagogy. Despite
this, the atmosphere was good and the children appeared happy, singing
and clapping whenever there was an opportunity – all led by
the teacher..
Young children
orderly organized in the day centre
The second field
visit with our visitors, was from the point of view of ICDP very
interesting and successful: We went far into the community of Mavalane
where we were led by the community chairwomen into a small concrete
house; a number of women were sitting on the concrete floor with
a carpet, exchanging experiences on ICDP, guided by one of our promoters.
They spoke the local language but we had fortunately simultaneous
translation so that we could follow what was going on.... It was
very interesting to follow what these women were expressing regarding
the significance of ICDP in their community.
Caregivers
clapping enthusiastically after each speaker
Different women
raised their hands and gave examples of how they had stopped beating
their children and how they had come into closer contact with their
children. One of them gave a long speech about the significance
of “redefinition” of seeing the child in a positive
way. All these positive expressions were interrupted by enthusiastic
clapping and singing from the audience - also dancing. When the
chairperson of the women’s organization of the area arrived
she gave along speech on how important ICDP was for the community
and that they were prepared to expand the ICDP activities into new
neighbouring communities. Afterwards, there was sustained clapping,
singing and dancing together. This must be an example of that the
anthropologist Turner describes as “communitas” - deep
emotional sharing and contact through dance and music… I have
never seen such enthusiasm in an ICDP group. Clearly ICDP seemed
to match a need in this community for togetherness and sharing basic
issues of human care. Also it convinced me that the danger of “imposing
ICDP” which is all the time coming up, is not what we see
in reality in such groups. Rather what we see are active women who
transform the ICDP topics into their own language and experience
and produce their own examples in accordance with their own tradition
and frame of mind. Fortunately I was able to video-record most of
this.
 
Singing and
dancing together; Irina Mendes (far right) dancing with the leader
of the local women’s organization
The potential
of these enthusiastic women’s groups to be expanded both to
other regions and to include other topics like preventive health,
including HIV/AIDS or even micro credit together with the ICDP topics,
should be investigated further. With these women, some of them illiterate,
emotional sharing with singing and dancing, as described above,
seem to be a better way of influencing their lives than through.
impersonal information, brochures and didactic lecturing.
ICDP
IN KHARAGPUR AND KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL
From the report
by Dr. Karl-Peter Hubbertz and Maria Chatterjee:
" An ICDP
introductory seminar took place in Seva Kendra Kharagpur for a group
of village workers and social workers from the region of Kharagpur
and Midnapur. The aim was to enable participants to use ICDP with
groups of parents and other caregivers in different project areas
and villages. The seminar-group consisted of eight pairs, each of
them working in a different place of the region. In this way we
wanted to activate cooperation and mutual support as colleagues
in ICDP-work. At the end of the seminar, each pair of participants
had to develop a project-plan and they went home with strong motivation
to try out and implement ICDP in practice.
We held a supervision
meeting in Seva Kendra Culcatta that was attended by many participants
from the ICDP-seminars which were held in West Bengal during 2006
and 2007. After some short reports from each project area about
their practical work we collected the most urgent questions to be
solved:
How to work
with fathers?
Problems with
joint families – how can we deal with them?
How can we work
with illiterate caregivers?
Is it possible
to work with mothers and children together?
What about the
regularity of visits/ missing group-sessions of certain parents?
Is it possible
to present only parts of the agenda?
Can we work
with different target-groups?
What about continuation
of a parent-group? How can we stay in contact?
People shared
their opinions actively and were very supportive of each other,
giving advice and developing new ideas. We finished the day examining
future steps. One enthusiastically greeted idea is to produce a
short film about the ICDP guidelines expressed through local cultural
context, by filming interactions between Bengali parents and children,
as well as with tribal families. Participants formed a small group
of interested colleagues to actively work on this project. Bablu
Sarkar is the initiator of this project; other members are Madhabi
Mukherjee, Dr. Aparna Saha and Debashish Mukherjee. The other point
is a translation of important parts of the programme into Bengali.
Some first trials already had been made by Debashish and Aparna.
Following this, Mrs. Maria Chatterjee as the coordinator plans to
translate the booklet “I’m a person too!” for
the direct use of parents. On the whole, this supervision-day was
a very encouraging experience for all group-members. Everybody’s
wish and intention was to continue with ICDP work in their own project
area!"
JULY
SCANDINAVIAN
NETWORK MEETING
The yearly meeting of the ICDP Scandinavian network took place on
the 29th and 30th May in the town of Stavanger. It was hosted by
the Stavanger ICDP group gathering more than 130 participants from
Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Leif Johan Sevland, the town's Mayor,
opened the conference by welcoming all to Stavanger, the European
Cultural capital for 2008. He stressed the necessity of creating
a platform for ICDP development, illustrating the importance of
the ICDP work all over Scandinavia.
The topic of
the conference was sensitization, theory and methodology. On the
first day Dr. Margareta Bròden gave a presentation on early
intervention, followed up by presentations describing the work of
ICDP in the 3 Scandinavian countries.
On the second
day psychologist Ingeborg Egebjerg (photo above), chair of ICDP
Norway, presented challenges related to the ICDP sensitization process
and how to deal with group dynamics. Torunn Teigen talked about
the practical application of ICDP in health centres, whereas Jamil
Syed presented ICDP experiences from projects involving different
ethnic backgrounds. There were two parallel workshops conducted
by Hilde Tørnes and Paul Bergman, as well some cultural events.
Once more the network meeting generated interest and enthusiasm
in exchanging experiences with ICDP.
NEW
ICDP GROUP STARTS IN PARAGUAY
Achievements
with ICDP training in the Villeta community, located south of the
capital Asuncion secured further funding by the Education Ministry
and a new group of 20 mothers started to receive ICDP training .
At the same time the 20 previously trained mothers showed good potential
for spreading ICDP to other families. In addition to ICDP the project
in Villeta is implementing the Unicef's breastfeeding programme
and there are plans to develop small scale family farming programmes
to improve nutrition, but for this funding has yet to be secured.
JUNE
COLOMBIA:
brief
overview
ICDP
IN CHOCO
ICDP spread
to communities in the department of Choco, including to the most
remote areas reachable only by river. Adriana Zapata (standing in
the photo above) from Unicef explains:
"Our strategy
is to start working on consolidating the ICDP trained teams which
are working all over Choco and our focus will be on monitoring and
evaluation. The ICDP workshop which took place at the end of May,
when we were visited by ICDP trainers, started this new phase; the
facilitators received monitoring procedures to help them strengthen
the field work carried out by promoters. The ICDP developments represent
an inter-institutional effort: Unicef, ICBF, CINDE and more recently
the local church, are all cooperating very closely which is very
significant for us. We managed to accomplish a lot with ICDP; most
families have been very receptive to the programme but the needs
are extreme. At the moment we are facing a very difficult situation
due to renewed armed conflicts, particularly outside the capital
of Quibdo. Children are traumatised by continuous violence, I feel
so sad to see how fearful they are; each time we arrive to their
villages they run and hide as they have become scared of all adults.
"
IQUIRA
AND RIO NEGRO, HUILA
The name of
the local school in Rio Negro is Kue Dsi - an indigenous name, as
the school is located in an indigenous community
Some of the
pupils from Kue Dsi
Simeon Marinez
(far left on photo above), is one of the 1600 facilitators/promoters
that ICDP trained in Huila. He explains the snowballing effect of
ICDP in Iquira:
" I was
trained by ICDP. Then with colleagues from the education, health
and social services networks we started implementing ICDP with 10
educators, 24 community mothers, and four health promoters. They
worked with families and children in Iquira, each one through their
own network, but we kept in touch. We reached 463 families. The
results were good. We saw an increase in empathic behaviour towards
children, they were treated like 'real people'. So we decided to
reach out to Rio Negro, to the indigenous community. One teacher
trained 22 teachers of the local school, attended by 600 pupils,
and the 22 teachers implemented ICDP with the families of the pupils
attending the school. It was a great effort as this ICDP work took
place outside their working hours during the evenings for about
3 hours each week. It was worth it, as we noticed that they became
more affectionate towards their children. Also, something we did
not expect to see, was that parents are now playing with their children
- this was completely outside their cultural practices but they
decided to change! We are so glad that the Ministry of Education
decided to allow teachers to use 3 hours for ICDP implementation
every week, so teachers will no longer have to do it after finishing
their days work. "
MAY
TANZANIA
A 4 day seminar
for candidate trainers took place in Moshi under the leadership
of Mai Bente Snipstad and Grete Flakk. The 13 women candidates belong
to the Kiwakkuki women's organisation, whose work in the Kilimanjaro
region focuses especially on different aspects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Read
more.
Group of candidate
trainers
Three out of
13 women proudly received their diplomas as ICDP trainers. From
the left: Luililiaeli Mfangavo, Egla Matechi and Vernynice Monyo.
They will continue to use the ICDP methodology in their work with
vulnerable children and their families.
NORWEGIAN
PRISONS
The implementation
of ICDP in Norwegian prisons has so far been very successful. This
was the conclusion of both the facilitators and the parents who
benefited from the training. As result ICDP has been integrated
as part of the overall training programme for prison staff of the
national department Kriminalomsorgens Utdanningssenter (KRUS). Christine
Sørøy is the ICDP trainer responsible for future developments
at KRUS.
Photo: a group
of ICDP facilitators/prison staff.. This group is still in process
of training but there are other groups who have already completed
their training and will be soon receiving their ICDP diplomas.
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GUATEMALA
SUMMIT
The new government
of Guatemala, led by Alvaro Colom, started its administration on
the 14 January 2008 emphasising as their priority tackling issues
concerning the situation of children and the poor. Guatemala has
the highest percentage of malnourished children in Latin America
and sixth highest in the world, according to a recent report by
Unicef. It is within this context that the Second National Meeting
on Early Childhood, ENPI II, took place on 9th and 10th April. It
was a joint effort by the government, Plan International and led
by Unicef country representative, Manuel Manrique (third from the
right on the photo below) and his expert team. It gathered 517 participants,
including all the ministries and important national networks and
NGOs working for children. A group was also invited to share experiences
from Mexico, Colombia, Holland, USA, Nicaragua, Chile, Cuba, and
it included Nicoletta Armstrong who presented the work of ICDP.
Conference
Agenda. The president opened the conference and he announced
Guatemala in a state of emergency with regards to malnourished children.
He and the First Lady, Sandra Torres de Colom (in the centre of
the photo below) spoke about the significance of joining efforts
and implementing proposals made by the meeting. On the last day
they signed the action plan formulated by the meeting as national
policy and call for action. Read
article by Unicef.
After the conference
an ICDP workshop was held for 61 persons from different institutions.
Participants included professionals from Plan International, Secretaria
de Bienestar Social, SOSEP, Fundazucar and several NGOs.
A project proposal
for implementation of ICDP on national scale is currently under
preparation in cooperation with Unicef, the government secretariat
and Plan International.
ICDP
IN SALAZAC, FRANCE
The international
training programme for facilitators, which started with a workshop
in Oslo in December 2007, was continued in Salazac, France, with
a second workshop held from 26th to 28th of March. It took place
in the countryside home of Erica Sapir, one of the six participants.
Professor Karsten Hundeide, the leader of this training, was unable
to attend in person, but his lecture was filmed and watched at the
workshop, which tested out in practice this way of working for the
first time.
Workshop was
attended by:
Luis Pereira
(Van Leer Foundation), Erica Sapir and Pilar Romero (Puppeteer without
borders - http://www.puppeteerswithoutborders.org),
Ylva Snekkvik and Trine Gerlyng (ICDP), and Michael Hundeide (researcher).
All participants are interested to include the ICDP methodology
as part of their work.
MARCH
ACTIVITIES
IN OSLO
1. An International
training workshop took place at ICDP headquarters on February 28,
29 and March 1st. Participants included persons from Australia,
Holland, Georgia and Ukraine. Workshop leaders were Nicoletta Armstrong
and ICDP chairman professor Karsten Hundeide. On the last day of
the workshop plans were outlined for future practical application
of the ICDP programme with children and families. A follow up meeting
will take place in August.
2. In parallel
with the international workshop, Hilde Tornes held a two day course,
which was attended by 8 participants, mainly preschool teachers.
This activity was part of ICDP developments taking place through
pre-schools in the Oslo area. The first part of this training took
place in January.
3. A third ICDP
workshop took place from 5-7th March. Training was led by Karsten
Hundeide (on the far right on the photo above), Mona Hannestad (photo
below, on the left) and Dragana Tosinovic (photo below, on the right).
 
It marked the
beginning of a pilot project that will be applying ICDP for the
first time with families of asylum seekers. The workshop was attended
by staff from centres offering assistance to asylum seekers situated
in different parts of Norway. The ICDP programme will be applied
in 5 centres. It is planned for the ICDP implementation with families
to be carried out by two trained facilitators working together,
one will be of minority origin and the other will be Norwegian.
FEBRUARY
ICDP
RECEIVES SPECIAL AWARD
ICDP received
an award from the Mayor for the best educational and awareness raising
effort in Oslo. The award was given to Farahnaz Rastegar and Ellen
Tronsmo for their work with ICDP and especially for the ICDP efforts
reaching out to the minority population. ICDP is implemented throughout
the city through different local networks such as kindergartens,
social service groups and health stations.
See photos and
article published in Oslo HERE
NEW
BOOK
ICDP has published
"Introduction to the ICDP programme" in Norwegian:
Innføring
i ICDP (for veiledere) - by Karsten Hundeide
It is to be
used by facilitators and for facilitator level training. Available
for sale from ICDP: icdp@icdp.no
or tel. 21 39 34 16
NEWS
FROM PORTUGAL
Penelope Villar
A new ICDP organisation
has been registered and set up in Portugal with a strong and enthusiastic
team - Click
here for report from Penelope Villar.
WORKSHOP
IN COLOMBIA
During the first
week of February an ICDP workshop gathered 72 persons in the capital
town of Quibdo, in the Choco department. They came to receive training
as ICDP facilitators in order to spread the programme further during
2008. All zones of the department were represented. Participants
included agents from the NGO CINDE and ICBF (social services), caregivers
from children's centres, local church priests, as well as members
from the indigenous Embera community who will adapt the language
and the images of the ICDP materials for use with the indigenous
population. Each facilitator will train and supervise 10 promoters.
Training continues in March with another ICDP workshop, which will
be followed by field visits at regular intervals throughout 2008.
There was also an additional unexpected development: a young man,
who was transporting some of the participants to the workshop on
his motorbike, became interested in ICDP. As result of spending
one evening in conversation with the ICDP trainers he decided to
join the workshop and was given the ICDP pack of materials. He is
determined to apply ICDP with young people from his community, in
order to prevent them from joining youth gangs.
JANUARY
SUMMARY
OF REPORT FROM ARGENTINA
The inhabitants
of the region of Traslasierra Cordoba are characterised by their
introversion, so we decided to make more use of hands and body in
the ICDP meetings. For example, we combined ICDP meetings with rag
doll making activities. Besides this, we were inspired by the traditional
"Minga" meetings typical for our culture, which are meetings
around a common practical task, but where women also share about
different topics related to child rearing practices. In Las Calles
we have been working for 3 years now with 10 families (each family
has between 3 and 5 children). At the same time we have also been
applying ICDP in Mina Clavero and Villa Dolores joining the Programmes
of the Community Centres of the National Ministry of Social Development.
In Villa Dolores, we are in process of training 85 persons as facilitators
to work in 8 different zones during 2008. We hope to reach 500 families.
The teachers we trained in Cura Brochero continue to work with groups
of parents, as well as children. And in general we have noticed
that most people who have had contact with the ICDP programme continue
to implement it. We consider ourselves as the first beneficiaries
of the programme, as we have discovered much over the years. In
the Las Calles there were significant improvements in the children's
relationship children with their parents and with their own peers.
They seem more predisposed to play, to listen and to interact. The
scope of their language has widened, and they are more open emotionally.
We believe this is the result of being more contained by their family.
We have also observed changes especially in the relationships of
the women and their husbands. As to whether these changes are good
or bad, we see them as very positive, including in the cases where
they come to the fore within couples as crisis situations, which
were necessary.
ICDP
BOARD WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS
At the recent
meeting the ICDP International board welcomed 4 new members:
Santana Momade,
the representative of ICDP Mozambique, with expertise in the area
of strategic planning and management.
Stephan Solat
who lives in Ukraine where he works for US AID. He has wide international
experience in development and has supported ICDP in the past.
Virginia Thomas
has high competence in development, particularly in the area of
evaluation. She is the executive director for Susila Dharma International
and lives in Canada.
Penelopi Villar,
a clinical psychologist, from Portugal. She is trained as ICDP facilitator
and has been working closely with ICDP Portugal.
Continuing members
include Karsten Hundeide as chairman and Nicoletta Armstrong as
board member.
The meeting
held a minute of silence paying respect to departed friend and colleague
Wilbert Verheyen, whose deep humanity, optimism and enthusiasm shall
be missed by all.
Pedro Mendes,
Henning Rye, Helen Ronnaug Andresen and Markus Hoff Berge resigned
from their positions. The chairman described the deep human engagement
and the enormous contribution by Markus Hoff Berge over the 15 years
that ICDP was based at Flo-chem office. He emphasised the significance
of the professional support and close friendship he felt from Henning
Rye and noted the international experience and professional contributions
in legal matters from Helen Ronnaug Andresen. The chairman also
stressed the importance of Pedro Mendes's commitment from start,
close friendship and psychological support during their travels
together. The resigning board members ex-officio presence and ongoing
support is and will continue to be much appreciated by the chairman.
Henning Rye who expressed thanks felt by all to Karsten Hundeide,
for his tireless commitment, vision and leadership of ICDP in the
world.
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