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NEWS
March 2006:
COLOMBIA
FINAL REPORTS FROM BOYACA
Boyaca is the Colombian province with the highest percentage of family violence, and this is why UNICEF Colombia, under the leadership of Manuel Manrique, suggested for ICDP to be implemented here, as part of a wider peace promoting strategy. The one year ICDP project, sponsored by UNICEF, FPAA, SD Britain and with financial input from the province itself, has now produced its final report - click to read in Spanish. The results from the evaluation carried out by a research team from 3 local universities are also available - click to read in Spanish.
Although other large scale projects took place in 5 different areas of Colombia, in the period since ICDP became an allied partner with UNICEF Colombia in 2001, the ICDP Boyaca project was the very first inter-institutional project; up till then ICDP had always worked with one institution only, namely ICBF (Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar). The governor of the province of Boyaca took special interest and facilitated ICDP implementation through 3 important networks, namely, Education, Health and Social Services. This work proved to be a reach experience as well as learning for ICDP. In order to facilitate coordination between all the different institutions involved in the Boyaca project, ICDP included in its team an administrator, Oliverio Jimenez. Training was delivered to over 5000 agents from education, health and social services, and they implemented the ICDP programme in 123 towns, working with 50 000 families linked to their respective networks. Follow up plans include a training programme that will complete the handover from ICDP to a team of local trainers with the task of supervising future ICDP developments.
The future vision for sustainability of ICDP in Boyaca was the main topic of the recent ICDP meetings with the First Lady of the province and the rest of the team from the Governor's office: as result the Secretariat for Education will include ICDP as a permanent component in the PEI programme for schools; the Institute for social services (ICBF) will have ICDP training as an obligatory component of its own training programme; in the coming year, the secretariat for Human Development plans to reach 20 000 families with ICDP. There was a local television interview about ICDP developments in Boyaca, and this is going to be followed up with a radio programme, over a period of 10 months, on the topic of the 8 guidelines and other key themes of the ICDP programme.
Oliverio, the project administrator and Anisah, one of the ICDP trainers
PHOTOS FROM ICDP TRAINING WORKSHOPS IN COLOMBIA
ICDP IN BOYACA:
ICDP workshop in Puerto Boyaca
ICDP certification in Otanche, ICDP trainer Patricia, second on the left in second row
COLOMBIA: NEW TRAINING
Several ICDP training workshops were recently held by the ICDP international consultant, Nicoletta Armstrong in Medellin, (province of Antioquia) and Neiva, (province of Huila). This marked the beginning of 3 new project developments in cooperation with the Medellin municipality, CINDE, UNICEF and the governor's office in Huila.
Following the initiative of UNICEF, Huila is the third province, after Narino and Boyaca, to receive ICDP training as part of a preventive strategy , where ICDP is implemented in every town of the province, by training agents from different local networks working with families and children.
Following the initiative of UNICEF, Huila is the third province, after Narino and Boyaca, to receive ICDP training as part of a preventive strategy , where ICDP is implemented in every single town of the province, by training agents from different local networks working with families and children. ICDP trainers Anisah Andrade, Ilaina Ramirez, Chayatun Valencia and Patricia Garces are now starting with the training in 4 towns: Neiva, Pitalito, La Plata and Garzon.
Group work at ICDP workshop with team from CINDE
Some of the ICDP workshop participants from BUEN COMIENZO
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