Grants approved in 2009
See grants from 2010 / 2008 / 2007
Partner: World Forum Foundation
Website: https://secure.ccie.com/wf/global_leaders/
Project Name: Global ECD Leadership (Poland)
Objective: To support two global leaders for young children from Poland to join a community of ECD leaders from more than 30 countries and participate in a two year process of training and mentoring in advocacy.
Geographical Scope: Worldwide
Grant date: May 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 14,975
Partner: International Play Association
Website: www.ipaworld.org
Project Name: Children's Right to Play
Objective: The project will generate a team of ‘CRC article 31 consultation specialists’ equipped to run play consultation events in their own regions. It will also provide us with the initial knowledge on how the children’s play rights are being infringed in different ways and different contexts.
Geographical Scope: Worldwide
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 50,000
Partner: Consultative Group on ECCD
Website: www.ecdgroup.com
Project Name: Core Support to Consultative Group on ECCD on ECCD 2009
Objective: To support the CGECCD in its role as a platform bringing together ECD point persons from donor organisations, practitioner networks, and academic institutions, with the aim of fostering positive change for young children in developing countries.
Geographical Scope: Worldwide
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 60,000
Partner: Alliance Publishing Trust
Website: www.alliancemagazine.org
Project Name: Assistance to Alliance Magazine
Objective: To contribute to the publication of ‘Alliance’ a magazine on international philanthropy, which features thoughtful articles by philanthropic leaders and critical debate on key issues.
Geographical Scope: Worldwide
Grant date: October 2009
Duration: N/A
Amount: EUR 10,000
Partner: Office of the Special Representative of the Secret
Website: www.unviolencestudy.org/
Project Name: SRSG on Violence against Children
Objective: This is a general support grant to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children
Geographical Scope: Global
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 307,965
Partner: Nascent Research & Development Organisation
Website: nascent-rdo.org/index2.html
Project Name: Steering KEN/UGA Dialogue on Strategy Development
Objective: To facilitate the identification of key issues, priorities, focus and possible outcomes of the proposed joint Kenya/Uganda programme on Strengthening the Care Environment thematic area focusing on young children 0-8 years in a context of generalised insecurity exacerbated by HIV/AIDS.
Geographical Scope: Western Kenya and East Uganda
Grant date: January 2009
Duration: 4 months
Amount: EUR 10,754
Partner: Nascent Research & Development Organisation
Website: nascent-rdo.org/index2.html
Project Name: KEN/UGA Programme Coordinating Hub
Objective: Leadership, coordination, sustained focus and responsibility for the achievement of the outcomes and agenda of the proposed primarily Uganda country programme (as the Kenya partners are phased out in the next two-three years) on behalf and under the guidance of the BvLF.
Geographical Scope: Kenya and Uganda
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 164,464
Partner: European Foundation Centre (EFC)
Website: www.efc.be
Project Name: Core activities 2009-2010
Objective: To support the core activities of the EFC in its endeavour to work with an array of partners to strengthen the independent funding element of European philanthropy through specific programmatic objectives.
Geographical Scope: Belgium
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: N/A
Amount: EUR 75,000
Partner: Network European Foundations Innova. Coooperation
Website: www.nefic.org
Project Name: Religion and Democracy in Europe
Objective: To capitalise on successfull investment through stock-taking of results, dissemination of main findings, testing interest for new projects and building coalition with interested parties.
Geographical Scope: Brussels, Belgium
Grant date: January 2010
Duration: N/A
Amount: EUR 5,000
Partner: Associaçao Brasileira Terra dos Homens
Website: www.terradoshomens.org.br/
Project Name: From the Street to School*
Objective: To break the poverty cycle of families engaged in vulnerable survival strategies in the streets of Rio
Geographical Scope: Rio de Janeiro; Brazil
Grant date: May 2009
Duration: 8 months
Amount: EUR 73,100
Partner: Articulação de Creches e Pré-Escolas Comunitárias
Website: N/A
Project Name: Transitions Project
Objective: To increase the quality of ECE provisions for social and economic disadvantaged children of the municipality of São Gonçalo, RJ.
Geographical Scope: São Gonçalo municipality, Rio de Janeiro; Brazil
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 1 year, and 3 months
Amount: EUR 42,025
Partner: Committee for Economic Development
Website: N/A
Project Name: Business Champions for ECD
Objective: To highlight early childhood development programs as an investment in the sustainable economic well-being of Brazil and its neighbours, by utilising CED's(Committee for Economic Development) successful model of conducting outreach activities to the private sector and convening experts and business leaders at a targeted two-day event in Brazil.
Geographical Scope: Brazil
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 120,000
Partner: OMEP Brazil
Website: www.primeirainfancia.org.br
Project Name: Early Childhood in First Place
Objective: The project consists of a comprehensive lobby strategy focused on early childhood, and the fulfillment of the Children’s Rights Convention (CRC) and the Brazilian legislation on the Rights of the Child.
Geographical Scope: Nation wide
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 6 months
Amount: EUR 49,905
Partner: OMEP Brazil
Website: www.primeirainfancia.org.br
Project Name: Early Childhood in First Place
Objective: The project consists of a comprehensive lobby strategy focused on early childhood, and the fulfillment of the Children’s Rights Convention (CRC) and the Brazilian legislation on the Rights of the Child.
Geographical Scope: Nation wide
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 6 months
Amount: EUR 49,905
Partner: Amsterdam Institute for International Development
Website: www.aiid.org
Project Name: Impact Evaluation of the Roving Caregivers Programme
Objective: To allow for meeting extra costs incurred for compensation packages for families in the control groups; conducting additional research on issues of parenting; and for an extended scope of the cost-benefit analysis.
Geographical Scope: Caribbean
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 6 months
Amount: EUR 81,600
Partner: Caricad (Caribbean Centre for Development Admin)
Website: www.ccsi-info.org
Project Name: Family Literacy Programme
Objective: To enhance children’s and adults’ literacy and numeracy skills through a multi-dimensional, integrated programme of child stimulation, early language development and parent education.
Geographical Scope: Caribbean
Grant date: December 2007
Duration: 4 years
Amount: EUR 99,900
Partner: Caricad (Caribbean Centre for Development Admin)
Website: www.ccsi-info.org
Project Name: Family Literacy Programme
Objective: To enhance children’s and adults’ literacy and numeracy skills through a multi-dimensional, integrated programme of child stimulation, early language development and parent education.
Geographical Scope: Caribbean
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 4 years
Amount: EUR 99,900
Partner: ChildFund Caribbean
Website: www.ChildFund.org
Project Name: Replication of the Roving Caregivers Prog. in Dominica, IV
Objective: To cover the shortfall due to exchange rate fluctuations.
Geographical Scope: Dominica
Grant date: September 2009
Duration: N/A
Amount: EUR 12,100
Partner: Caricad (Caribbean Centre for Development Admin)
Website: www.ccsi-info.org
Project Name: Caribbean Child Support Initiative, phase II
Objective: An independent audit of activities and projects implemented by the Caribbean Child Support Initiative program (CCSI) and its partner agencies executed.
Geographical Scope: Eastern Caribbean
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 38,000
Partner: Caricad (Caribbean Centre for Development Admin)
Website: www.ccsi-info.org
Project Name: Caribbean Child Support Initiative, phase II
Objective: To carry out a study that provides a theoretical explanation to the CCSI approach while positioning it in the development discourse.
Geographical Scope: Caribbean
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 6 months
Amount: EUR 46,200
Partner: Ministry of Education and Culture
Website: www.education.gov.lc
Project Name: Replication of the Roving Caregivers Prog. in St. Lucia, V
Objective: To enhance the cognitive, language and social skills of young children and change the parents’ behaviours on parenting and child socialisation.
Geographical Scope: Caribbean
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 104,800
Partner: ChildFund Caribbean
Website: www.ChildFund.org
Project Name: Replication of the Roving Caregivers Prog. in Dominica, V
Objective: To enhance the cognitive, language and social skills of young children and change the parents’ behaviours on parenting and child socialisation.
Geographical Scope: Dominica
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 56,000
Partner: Ministry of National Mobilisation, Social Dev't
Website: housingsvg@vincysurf.com
Project Name: Replication of the Roving Caregivers Prog. in St Vincent V
Objective: To enhance the cognitive, language and social skills of young children and change the parents’ behaviours on parenting and child socialisation.
Geographical Scope: Caribbean
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 56,000
Partner: Ministry of Social Development
Website: N/A
Project Name: Replication of the Roving Caregivers Prog. in Grenada, IV
Objective: To enhance the cognitive, language and social skills of young children and change the parents’ behaviours on parenting and child socialisation.
Geographical Scope: Eastern Caribbean
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 56,000
Partner: Universidad del Norte
Website: www.uninorte.edu.co
Project Name: Care for children under Social Risk*
Objective: To formulate and implement succesfully public policies that ensure that daycare centre programmes in Colombia
Geographical Scope: Costa Atlantica region; Colombia
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 3 years
Amount: EUR 390,000
Partner: Fundación Mi Sangre
Website: N/A
Project Name: General support grant
Objective: To enable the Institution to incorporate new funders and increase its capacity to operate as an advocate for the wellbeing of young children in Colombia in a sustainable manner.
Geographical Scope: Medellin; Colombia
Grant date: September 2009
Duration: 1 year, and 8 months
Amount: EUR 189,000
Partner: Arab Resource Collective (ARC)
Website: www.mawared.org
Project Name: Early Childhood Care and Development Programme II
Objective: To enable the Arab Resource Collective to bring together key international and regional actors to discuss a shared agenda for young children.
Geographical Scope:
Grant date: April 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 10,000
Partner: CAF: Research and Development Centre
Website: www.strath.ac.uk/centres/caf
Project Name: DECET Network Phase III
Objective: To increased knowledge and understanding within DECET and ISSA about the potential impact of networks and about new effective technologies for cooperation among networks.
Geographical Scope: Europe-wide
Grant date: May 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 50,000
Partner: DIKTIO : Network for Children's Rights
Website: www.ddp.org.gr
Project Name: Promoting Respect for Diversity through Children's Books
Objective: To ensure that children live in more equitable societies and promote respect, understanding and conflict resolution.
Geographical Scope: National
Grant date: March 2009
Duration: 1 year, and 5 months
Amount: EUR 62,000
Partner: People's Rural Education Movement (PREM)
Website: www.prem.org.in
Project Name: Child Based Community Development
Objective: To continue current activities within the Orissa programme for another three months.
Geographical Scope: India
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 3 months
Amount: EUR 28,740
Partner: Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD)
Website: www.cysd.org
Project Name: Technical Support and Citizens’ Oversight in ECE&D
Objective: This grant provides funds for the activities the consultant will carry out in the successful transitions programme on tribal children of Orissa. The main activities of this unit are to create a baseline and strategy for advocacy.
Geographical Scope: Orissa, India
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 64,900
Partner: Mobile Crèches New Delhi
Website: www.mobilecreches.org
Project Name: Mobile Creches Corpus Campaign, Final Phase
Objective: Dependence on foreign funding will be reduced and sustainability of the services for migrant children will be increased.
Geographical Scope: New Delhi; India
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 5 years
Amount: EUR 170,000
Partner: MAYA Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness
Website: www.mayaindia.org
Project Name: Developing a Community Based Approach to ECCE, II
Objective: To develop a sustainable model for community owned early childhood care and education and an approach for effective functioning of the mainstream ECE services (Anganwadies).
Geographical Scope: Karnatakka State; India
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 3 years
Amount: EUR 458,280
Partner: Sikshasandhan
Website: www.sikshasandhan.org
Project Name: Mother Tongue Based Early Education
Objective: Tribal children have improved access to mother tongue based quality early education and undergo a smooth transition to primary school.
Geographical Scope: Orissa, India
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 3 years
Amount: EUR 242,500
Partner: Yayasan Kusuma Buana
Website: www.kusumabuana.or.id
Project Name: Planning an Early Care and Family Support Program, Indonesia
Objective: To support the design and planning of an Early Care and Family Support program in Indonesia.
Geographical Scope: Indonesia
Grant date: February 2009
Duration: 7 months
Amount: EUR 65,400
Partner: Yayasan Kusuma Buana
Website: www.kusumabuana.or.id
Project Name: Extended Planning for Early Care and Family Support Program
Objective: To help generate the country programme strategy for Indonesia.
Geographical Scope: Indonesia
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 6 months
Amount: EUR 30,000
Partner: Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Devt.
Website: www.nisped.org.il
Project Name: Community Playgrounds for Young Bedouin Children
Objective: Bedouin children in the unrecognised villages in the Negev desert have no safe spaces to play. The two playgrounds that were introduced and have proved successful will be fully integrated into the local communities in the coming year.
Geographical Scope:
Grant date: April 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 49,100
Partner: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Website: N/A
Project Name: Extending "Learning to Live Together"
Objective: To enable important and path breaking audio-visual and written material on the social and emotional worlds of very young Arab children to be refined and compiled.
Geographical Scope:
Grant date: April 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 72,660
Partner: Israel Centre for the Treatment of Psychotrauma
Website: www.traumaweb.org
Project Name: Building Resilience in the Preschool Classroom
Objective: This SG will enable the Center to complete the work in the Bedouin communities in the city of Rahat through training and workshops and also evaluate effectiveness of skills learned.
Geographical Scope: Bedouin communities in Rahat
Grant date: January 2010
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 97,179
Partner: Ezer Mizion - Israel National Support Organization
Website: www.ezermizion.org
Project Name: the Active Nurturing Playground, Phase II
Objective: This SG will allow the programme to expand to 25 new kindergartens and to strengthen the relationship with the Municipality of Jerusalem.
Geographical Scope: municipality of Jerusalem
Grant date: January 2010
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 34,000
Partner: Centre for Advancement of Functional Capacities
Website: www.kishurei-lemida.com
Project Name: Children-Friendly Kindergartens, Phase II
Objective: To take care of the salaries of local coordinators - given that municipalities are in financial difficulties due to the economic crisis - to ensure the steady continuation of the project.
Geographical Scope: Israel
Grant date: April 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 19,500
Partner: Musharakah Trust for Arab ECCD in Israel
Website: N/A
Project Name: Synergy in ECD for Arab Children, Phase IV
Objective: To improve the quality of care for young Arab children both within families and daycare centres.
Geographical Scope: Nazareth and Nationwide; Israel
Grant date: April 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 480,200
Partner: Kaye Academic College of Education
Website: N/A
Project Name: Instructors for Bedouin Parenting and Community, Phase III
Objective: This grant addresses the situation of Bedouin children & families, their traditional childrearing practices (hierarchical relationships between parents and children; gender issues) and their relative isolated and socially excluded position in the Israeli society. Through training of Bedouin teachers new knowledge and understanding, resulting in new attitudes and behaviour of teachers is enhanced.
Geographical Scope: Beersheva; Israel
Grant date: January 2010
Duration: 3 years
Amount: EUR 131,964
Partner: Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace
Website: www.adaminstitute.org.il/
Project Name: Building blocks of Democracy, phase III
Objective: It addresses the situation of young children of different origin (Bedouin/Arab children, and Jewish children of immigrant families) which are approached in a pre-school setting. Increased parent involvement is another main target. Through training of kindergarten teachers and by introducing new materials the democracy principles are further disseminated. Furthermore, the project will increasingly seek to address the issue of communication and encounter between different communities.
Geographical Scope: Kiryat Gat and the Negev; Israel
Grant date: January 2010
Duration: 3 years
Amount: EUR 333,874
Partner: Child Fund - Kenya
Website: www.childfund.org
Project Name: Samburu ECD Project, Phase IV
Objective: To improve early childhood development and early learning and transition among children aged 0–8 years in the Samburu area.
Geographical Scope: Greater Samburu area, Kenya
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 300,000
Partner: Mind Venture International
Website: N/A
Project Name: Skillful parenting
Objective: To provide information, education and communication products that can support a Skillful Parenting Project in the longer term.
Geographical Scope: Nationwide
Grant date: June 2009
Duration: 6 months
Amount: EUR 2,000
Partner: CANTERA Centro de Educación y Comunicación Popular
Website: www.canteranicaragua.org/
Project Name: Promoting Childcare Programmes in Central America
Objective: To influence public policies and promote the expansion of programmes for young children and their families, based on research, increasing leverage and advocacy.
Geographical Scope: Central America region
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 149,400
Partner: Melel Xojobal, A.C.
Website: www.melelxojobal.org.mx
Project Name: Impact evaluation
Objective: Impact evaluation of Melel Xojobal
Geographical Scope: San Cristobal,;State of Chiapas ; Mexico
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 4 months
Amount: EUR 15,000
Partner: Ririki Intervención Social SC
Website: N/A
Project Name: Social Inclusion & Respect for Diversity program in Mexico *
Objective: To include unforeseen activities within the approved Mexico programme strategy for 2009 – 2013.
Geographical Scope: San Cristobal, Tapachula, Ciudad Juarez and Sinaola; Mexico
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 83,000
Partner: Red Conecuitlani "Yo protejo a los Niños", A.C.
Website: www.redconecuitlani.org
Project Name: Publication Red Conecuitlani
Objective: To document the life stories of 10 community educators of the “Red Concecuitlani” and present this in a publication for broad dissemination.
Geographical Scope: Mexico City ; Mexico
Grant date: May 2009
Duration: 10 months
Amount: EUR 4,000
Partner: Association ATFALE
Website: www.refer.org.ma/atfale/index.htm
Project Name: New Concept for Moroccan Pre-School Education
Objective: To participate in the national effort to construct a new concept for modern and authentically Moroccan preschool education, taking into account the country’s realities and specificities.
Geographical Scope: Nation wide; Morocco
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 200,400
Partner: Hogeschool InHolland
Website: N/A
Project Name: Our Class, My World 1.1*
Objective: To cover costs for the inclusion of an Islamic school.
Geographical Scope: Netherlands
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: 6 months
Amount: EUR 20,436
Partner: International Child Development Initiatives
Website: www.icdi.nl
Project Name: Programme Hub The Netherlands
Objective: To establish a Programme Hub - an interactive, connecting and monitoring mechanism, which will strengthen the links across partners, their networks and the Bernard van Leer Foundation, and integrate and synthesise information and learning arising in the areas of social inclusion, respect for diversity and democratic citizenship in early childhood education and care, thus ensuring a coherent programmatic approach in the Netherlands.
Geographical Scope: Netherlands
Grant date: March 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 150,000
Partner: International Child Development Initiatives
Website: www.icdi.nl
Project Name: Programme Hub The Netherlands 1.1
Objective: To cover additional staffing costs of the Hub Manager.
Geographical Scope: The Netherlands
Grant date: July 2009
Duration: N/A
Amount: EUR 3,250
Partner: Bureau MUTANT
Website: www.mutant.nl
Project Name: Dealing with Diversity - National Pedagogical Framework*
Objective: To ensure that children’s centres, child care and out-of-school care centres will include managing or working positively with diversities into their policy and action plans as well as draw attention to the social function of child care next to the economic and pedagogic functions.
Geographical Scope: Netherlands
Grant date: March 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 179,800
Partner: Stichting Child Care International
Website: N/A
Project Name: Learning Community The Netherlands
Objective: To put social inclusion and respect for diversity on the agenda of both ends of the continuum of the ECEC sectors: the government and the childcare and education services.
Geographical Scope: Netherlands
Grant date: March 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 74,500
Partner: Stichting VanHarte
Website: www.restovanharte.nl
Project Name: VanHarte Child Resto
Objective: To support the organisation's work in the prevention of social exclusion and isolation of children and families living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of The Hague.
Geographical Scope: Netherlands
Grant date: June 2009
Duration: N/A
Amount: EUR 10,000
Partner: Utrecht University School of Economics
Website: N/A
Project Name: Child care and families' labour market behaviour
Objective: To provide answers to urgent questions regarding the short and long term benefits of investments in early childhood care and education
Geographical Scope: Netherlands
Grant date: September 2009
Duration: 4 years
Amount: EUR 72,600
Partner: Stichting Pedagogiekontwikkeling 0-7 (SPOREN)
Website: www.pedagogiekontwikkeling.nl
Project Name: Pedagogical Programme SPOREN, Phase II
Objective: To develop further the ‘Sporen’ pedagogy into a training programme that will be adopted effectively in four diverse settings in different regions in the Netherlands.
Geographical Scope: Netherlands
Grant date: October 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 198,950
Partner: Ministerio de la Mujer y Desarrollo Social
Website: N/A
Project Name: Step by Step*
Objective: To consolidate the project and transfer it to the units responsible for care.
Geographical Scope: Ayacucho and Huancavelica; Peru
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 10 months
Amount: EUR 103,142
Partner: WARMAYLLU
Website: N/A
Project Name: Seeds-kids sprouting in the community phase II*
Objective: To increase opportunities for children to access good quality early childhood and educational services.
Geographical Scope: Cajamarca, Andahuaylas,Callao; Peru
Grant date: March 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 113,200
Partner: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya
Website: www.uarm.edu.pe
Project Name: The Early Child Development Instrument (EDI) in Peru
Objective: To measure school readiness and life skills of 4-8 year olds at social and/or economic disadvantage during key junctures of their life courses.
Geographical Scope: Ayacucho, Lima-Callao; Peru
Grant date: April 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 50,686
Partner: Asoc. Prom. de Educación Inicial Caritas Graciosas
Website: N/A
Project Name: The Explorer*
Objective: To reduce school failure by increasing children’s academic and social performance.
Geographical Scope: Ventanilla; Callao; Perú
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 46,703
Partner: Communication for Social Change Consortium
Website: www.communicationforsocialchange.org
Project Name: EduComWatch
Objective: To improve the quality of education for young children by strengthening the capacity of communities in selected areas of Peru to advocate for improved education services and to stimulate public authority responsiveness.
Geographical Scope: Ayacucho, Ventanilla; Peru
Grant date: March 2009
Duration: 4 months
Amount: EUR 15,100
Partner: Instituto de Formación de Adolescentes y Niños
Website: N/A
Project Name: Loving Child, Phase II*
Objective: To extend the model of integral human development created during phase I to the children of working women in situation of vulnerability (poverty and violence) in 3 new communities.
Geographical Scope: Lima,Tarma,Maynas; Peru
Grant date: May 2009
Duration: 3 years
Amount: EUR 239,500
Partner: SALGALU SAC
Website: www.salgalu.com
Project Name: Investing in Children for Poverty Eradication
Objective: To increase the access of children growing up in conditions of social and economic disadvantage to quality ECE.
Geographical Scope: Nation wide; Peru
Grant date: May 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 250,000
Partner: Asociacion Kallpa
Website: N/A
Project Name: Child friendly municipalities Phase II*
Objective: The project aims at influencing regional public institutions to spread the experience to the other 20 municipalities of the province.
Geographical Scope: Province Ayacucho; Peru
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 60,116
Partner: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya
Website: www.uarm.edu.pe
Project Name: Knowledge Interface (KI), Phase II
Objective: To provide the country strategy with a knowledge device that performs two essential functions: a) to monitor and evaluate the progress of the strategy; and b) to organize, pack and distribute knowledge produced by BvLF partners in Peru that can be used to influence policy and improve good practice
Geographical Scope: Nation wide; Peru
Grant date: June 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 50,000
Partner: Consorcio Desarrollo Integral Ninez y Fam Andina
Website: www.codinfa.org.pe
Project Name: A bridge to the school, Phase II*
Objective: To improve the transition to school of young Quechua-speaking children growing up in impoverished rural communities
Geographical Scope: Provinces Apurimac, Ayacucho and Huancavelica; Peru
Grant date: September 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 168,000
Partner: Asociación Kusi Warma
Website: www.kusiwarma.org.pe/index.htm
Project Name: Scaling Community Vigilance Phase II*
Objective: To improve the chances of children growing up in slum urban communities,so that they do better at school, both socially and academically.
Geographical Scope: Pachacutec; Ventanilla; Lima; Peru
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 73,759
Partner: Asociación Kusi Warma
Website: www.kusiwarma.org.pe/index.htm
Project Name: Early childhood Learning Peruvian Community (COPERA Infancia)
Objective: To cover the costs of a core team with capacity to lead the learning community through the growing demand of field knowledge generated by the nation-wide mobilization strategy
Geographical Scope: Nation wide; Peru
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 35,000
Partner: DEDI
Website: www.dedi.org.za
Project Name: Family and community Support III
Objective: To facilitate a comprehensive external evaluation of both the project and the 11-year partnership between DEDI and BvLF.
Geographical Scope: South Africa
Grant date: October 2009
Duration: 3 months
Amount: EUR 9,718
Partner: TREE
Website: www.tree-ecd.co.za
Project Name: Siyafundisana Project, Phase III
Objective: To contribute to the costs of organising and hosting a 3-day Symposium entitled ‘Mitigating the impact of HIV and Aids on the very young child in the context of poverty’ to be held as part of TREE's 20th anniversary celebrations.
Geographical Scope: KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 4 months
Amount: EUR 3,000
Partner: ABC Ulwazi
Website: www.abculwazi.org.za
Project Name: Open Spaces for Communities to TALK about their Children
Objective: To strengthen the community's radio sector so that critical educational and developmental information can be communicated to disadvantaged communities.
Geographical Scope: Four Provinces: Limpopo;KwaZuluNatal;FreeState; and Eastern Cape, South Africa
Grant date: October 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 117,585
Partner: Masikhule Early Childhood Development Centre
Website: N/A
Project Name: Nomakhaya Project Phase II
Objective: To strengthen the capacity of primary caregivers/families to meet the needs and rights of their young children at risk.
Geographical Scope: Eastern Cape, South Africa
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 3 years
Amount: EUR 199,000
Partner: Early Learning Resource Unit (ELRU)
Website: www.elru.co.za
Project Name: Research on local/indigenous knowledge in ECD
Objective: To strengthen the care environment for young children by affirming and building on caregivers’ and communities’ local and indigenous knowledge and practices.
Geographical Scope: South Africa
Grant date: October 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 171,320
Partner: Tanzania Home Economics Association-Mwanza
Website: N/A
Project Name: Strengthening ECD Partnership in Tanzania
Objective: To facilitate the needs assessment for coordination/support of the BvLF Transitions Programme in Tanzania.
Geographical Scope: Tanzania
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 6 months
Amount: EUR 43,500
Partner: Int. Institute for Child Rights & Development
Website: www.iicrd.org
Project Name: Developing a Sustainable Child Rights Curriculum
Objective: To carry out an evaluation of the CRED-PRO child rights training project.
Geographical Scope: Tanzania
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 2 months
Amount: EUR 12,400
Partner: Tanzania ECD Network (TECDEN)
Website: N/A
Project Name: Strenghtening the Tanzania ECD Network
Objective: The improvement of integrated and holistic service delivery to infants and young children especially to those living in difficult environments
Geographical Scope: Countrywide; Tanzania
Grant date: March 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 158,000
Partner: Monduli Pastoralist Development Initiatives (MPDI)
Website: N/A
Project Name: Monduli Quality Care and Education Project
Objective: To support locally appropriate quality care and education environments for young Maasai children in families, community ECD centres and primary schools in Monduli District.
Geographical Scope: Monduli District; Tanzania
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 125,800
Partner: Tanzania Home Economics Association-Mwanza
Website: N/A
Project Name: Mwanza Quality Care and Education Project
Objective: To increased access to quality care and education among 8,000 children in Ilemela and Nyamagana districts by 2014.
Geographical Scope: Ilemela and Nyamangana districts; Tanzania
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 110,500
Partner: Safina Women's Association (SAWA)
Website: N/A
Project Name: Morogoro Quality Care and Education Project
Objective: To improve access and quality of early and education for 10,000 children of 0 -8 years old in Morogoro Municipal, Morogoro Rural and Mvomero Districts by 2014.
Geographical Scope: Morogoro Municipal, Morogoro Rural and Mvomero Districts; Tanzania
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 98,800
Partner: KIWAKKUKI
Website: www.kiwakkuki.org
Project Name: Kilimanjaro Quality Care and Education Project
Objective: Improved access and quality of early care & education for children of 0 - 8 years of age in 14 wards of Moshi Rural, Moshi Municipality and Mwanga Districts, Kilimanjaro Region by 2014.
Geographical Scope: Moshi Rural, Moshi Municipality and Mwanga Districts; Tanzania
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 125,700
Partner: Kinnapa Development Programme
Website: N/A
Project Name: Kiteto Quality Care and Education Project
Objective: Improved access and quality of early care & education for children of 0 - 8 years of age in Kiteto and Simanjiro Districts, by 2014.
Geographical Scope: Kiteto and Simanjiro Districts; Tanzania
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 100,000
Partner: WEAVE
Website: www.weave-women.org
Project Name: Programme for Displaced Burmese Children, Phase IV
Objective: Capacity building of new personnel to mitigate the depleting numbers of experienced nursery school teaching staff and personnel due to the resettlement programme
Geographical Scope: Thailand-Burma Border
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 4 months
Amount: EUR 37,000
Partner: Development Workshop
Website: N/A
Project Name: Children of Seasonal Workers in Turkey
Objective: Participant observation study to assess the conditions of young children who travel on a seasonal basis with their families who are migrant workers. The study will reveal the issues related to this most vulnerable and neglected group and help decide the strategy to be used in Turkey in the future.
Geographical Scope: Turkey
Grant date: September 2009
Duration: 1 year, and 6 months
Amount: EUR 65,000
Partner: Uganda Orphans Rural Development Programme
Website: www.uordp.ug
Project Name: Community Support ORIWA, Phase II
Objective: To provide support for continuing project activities until January 2010 when the project and partnership will be reviewed within the new BvLF strategic plan.
Geographical Scope: Tororo District, Uganda
Grant date: October 2009
Duration: 7 months
Amount: EUR 17,014
Partner: Hope for Orphans and Women (HOW Uganda)
Website: N/A
Project Name: Child Care and Development, Phase II
Objective: To contribute towards the creation of a safe and conducive environment for enhanced mental and psychosocial as well as, early learning, physical and cognitive development of young children in Kyere and Kateta sub-counties.
Geographical Scope: Soroti District
Grant date: November 2009
Duration: 2 years
Amount: EUR 150,000
Partner: Care USA
Website: www.care.org
Project Name: Early Childhood Development Stakeholders Meeting
Objective: To organise a stakeholders' meeting to review the ECD Essential Package in HIV Contexts.
Geographical Scope: Washington, DC; USA
Grant date: March 2009
Duration: 2 months
Amount: EUR 11,700
Partner: Professional Associates, Inc.
Website: www.paionline.org
Project Name: Early Childhood and Socialization Support Initiative, V
Objective: To use of the evidence-based knowledge generated by the experience to inform an advocacy, communication and resource mobilization strategy.
Geographical Scope: Mississippi Delta; USA
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 1 year
Amount: EUR 439,834
Partner: Child Protection Society
Website: www.childprotection.co.zw
Project Name: Community Fostering IV
Objective: To provide support for continuing project activities until February 2010 when the project and partnership will be reviewed within the new BvLF strategic plan.
Geographical Scope: Harare, Zimbabwe
Grant date: December 2009
Duration: 3 months
Amount: EUR 12,420
Partner: Southern Africa AIDS Info. Dissem. Service
Website: www.safaids.net
Project Name: Training for BvLF/ZIM Partners
Objective: To build capacity of 12 BvLF partners on identified areas to bring about a common vision and knowledge-based way of working.
Geographical Scope: Zimbabwe
Grant date: August 2009
Duration: 4 months
Amount: EUR 13,800
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