I have yet to receive contact from my international contacts, therefore, I am going to complete the alternate assignment. Harvard University's Global Children's Initiative website: http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/
The Global Children 's Initiative focuses on three strategic objectives:
The first one is to build a multidisciplinary science of health, learning, and behavior which would explain the early roots of lifelong impairments in the environments in which children live.
The second one would be to support research and demonstrate projects in selected countries or regions which will expand global understanding of how health development happens, how it can be derailed, and how to get it back on track.
The third one it to build leadership capacity in child development research and policy between individuals and institutions of low and middle income countries in order to increase the number of influences for diverse perspectives that are contributing to the global movement on behalf of young children.
The Global Children's Initiative also, consists are three domains: early childhood development, mental health, and children in crisis and conflict situations. The insights that I have gained about early childhood systems around the globe is that the Global Children's Initiative are working together with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights in an effort to foster a science-based developmental perspective which includes the assessment and management for children well being in a range of natural and man made crises which focuses on immediate circumstances and long term adaptation. The two issues for this domain are: exploring comparable approaches for surveying child status in post earthquake, Haiti, and Chile, and using strategies of science of child development for addressing acute malnutrition.
This website have opened my eyes that all children of the world deserve a healthy start and live in a prosperous environment.
Talae,
ReplyDeleteIt is quite interesting to know that the Global Children Initiative sort to tackle children’s development on a very wide scale. We too need to approach our work from that broad prospective if we are going to reap significant results. Many times our focus is so narrow that we fail to reap the measure of success with envisaged. What is also quite interesting is that research constitutes such a critical element and it is an area which I am aware needs to be explored more at my local level.