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Appendix E: Examples of Programs Highlighted in Workshops
Appendix E: Examples of Programs Highlighted in Workshops
Pages 44-56
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DESCRIPTION Sherri Le Mottee The primary goal of Ilifa Labantwana is to enable the government system SPEAKER and create access and leverage through private investor and government collaboration. The three partner collaboration involves developing a strategy for early childhood development and forms partnerships in civil South Africa society and government to deliver a package of services to communities LOCATION in need.
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It is an adaptation of the Jamaica home visiting program that introduced psychosocial stimulation and micronutrient supplements into 1-hour weekly home visits. Colombia LOCATION Sanitation Program in PROGRAM Salvador, Brazil DESCRIPTION Mauricio Barreto The program worked to improve sewerage coverage and evaluate the SPEAKER effect of the citywide sanitation program on diarrhea morbidity in young children.
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Chile LOCATION Primeira Infancia PROGRAM Melhor (Improved Early DESCRIPTION Childhood) Liése Gomes Serpa Primeira Infancia Melhor helps families understand child development SPEAKER in order to establish strong parent–child bonds through home visiting services.
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Brazil LOCATION Uruguay Crece Contigo PROGRAM (Urugugay Grows with DESCRIPTION You) Cristina Lustemberg The aim of Uruguay Crece Contigo is to meet the needs of highly vulnerable SPEAKER populations, pregnant women, and children below the age of 4 by creating a comprehensive program that guarantees the rights of households with pregnant women and children.
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Early childhood development interventions involved midwives, parents, and entire communities that helped reduce the Sri Lanka percentage of underweight children from 64 percent to 28 percent. LOCATION China Women's PROGRAM Development DESCRIPTION Foundation HaiLiang Guo China Women's Development Foundation, which has served more than SPEAKER 27 million people in China through its programs, has demonstrated how a single organization can provide a wide range of coordinated and integrated services for children and their mothers.
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LOCATION Lady Health Workers PROGRAM Program DESCRIPTION Zulfiqar Bhutta The program includes more than 100,000 workers who support the SPEAKER public sector in family planning, prenatal care, care referrals, and more, in mostly rural regions. Workers typically do not provide curative services themselves, serving as health educators and promoting available services.
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LOCATION Towards Improved Economic and PROGRAM Sexual Reproductive DESCRIPTION Health Outcomes for Adolescent Girls (TESFA) Jeffrey Edmeades The TESFA program delivers three types of content to adolescent girls SPEAKER in rural Ethiopia: economic empowerment, sexual and reproductive health, and a combination of the two.
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The commission has identified eight Colombia interventions, including issuance of birth certificates, vaccinations, and LOCATION nutritional assessment, to create an integrated registration system for children. PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC Lumos PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Irina Malanciuc Lumos creates alternatives to institutional care, family support, SPEAKER community-based services, development of inclusive education, and intersectoral coordination at the central and local levels.
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DESCRIPTION Constanza Alarcon A program instituted by the government of Colombia to train and sensitize SPEAKER teachers to behaviors that are a consequence of the conflict. This included approaches toward healing that placed an emphasis on reconnecting relationships with families and friends through the use of play therapy.
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LOCATION TORNOTO, CANADA Mobile Creches PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Sonia Sharma The organization works to provide care, protection, health care, and SPEAKER learning needs to the children of migrant construction workers in construction sites and urban slums in India, where 20 million children lack basic health care and protection and suffer physical, psychosocial, and India emotional neglect. LOCATION Home Visiting Program PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Susan Walker The program worked to expand access to effective parenting interventions SPEAKER by empowering others to become community health workers, education assistants, and home visitors.
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National Multisectoral Program for Combating PROGRAM Maternal, Newborn, and DESCRIPTION Child Mortality Martina Baye Regional hospitals in Cameroon receive employees who require training SPEAKER in Kangaroo Mother Care both in person and through the online learning platform. Cameroon LOCATION Project Casita PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Leonid Lecca Project Casita trains families on how to work with their children who have SPEAKERS Rafael Alvares developmental delays.
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Ghana LOCATION Early Childhood PROGRAM Development Virtual DESCRIPTION University (ECDVU) Alan Pence ECDVU is a training program that uses interactive online courses to SPEAKER grant certificates and degrees in ECD.
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