Support Services for
International Agencies and Institutions

 

Seminars, Conferences and Training Workshops

• Four regional workshops in West Africa on ECD policy planning (Nouakchott, Mauritania; Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Dakar, Senegal, 2002 to 2004).
• Presentation on Recommendations on Policy Planning and Evaluation for Achieving Education for All (UNESCO, Paris, 2001).
• Presentations on Secondary and Youth Education Reform 1) Oman, UNESCO, 2003, 2) Mauritius, UNESCO, 2001.
• Presentation on ECD Policy Planning (Asmara, Eritrea, 28-31 October 2002).
• Education Models for the Reconstruction of Societies (Diálogo Mayor de la Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, 2004).
• Presentation and Panel on ECD Policy Planning (Accra, Ghana, June, 2005).
• Workshop on Infant Stimulation in Honduras (7 July 2005).
• Presentation on education in conflict situations, University of Ibagué, Colombia (26 August 2005).
• Closing presentation at the Conference on Children and Youth, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia (31 August 2005).
• Presentation “Some Approaches for Financing ECD” at the Consultative Group for Early Childhood Care and Development, Paris, France (15 September 2005).
• Presentation on ECD Finance at the Annual Meeting of the Consultative Group for Early Childhood Care and Development (26 October 2006).
• Presentation on “International Perspectives on Early Childhood Development” at the Conference on Latin and the Caribbean: Childhood Comes First, Fundaçao Abrinq, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 6 to 8 November, 2006.
• ECD Policy Trade-Offs and Finance, presentation at the 2007 African Launch of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report, Dakar, Senegal, 27 to 29 November 2006.
• “Planning ECD in a Megalopolis,” Conference to Consult 1,400 ECD specialists and parents regarding the ECD Policy for Bogotá, Colombia, Federal District Department for Social Welfare, 6 December 2006.

Agencies Served through RISE Advisory Services

• Asian Development Bank Institute
• Association for Development of Education in Africa: Working Group for Early Childhood Development
• Bernard van Leer Foundation
• Catholic Relief Services
• Christian Children's Fund
• CINDE-International Center for Education and Human Development, Colombia
• Consultative Group for Early Childhood Care and Development
• Department of Social Welfare, Bogotá, Colombia
• Fundaçao Abrinq
• Global Forum for Health Research
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Red del Grupo Consultivo para la Primera Infancia en Amßrica Latina
• Rosario University
• Save the Children/USA
• UNESCO
• UNICEF
• University of Ibagué
• World Bank