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Global Initiative About Ethnic Diversity and Early Childhood

Thursday 22nd October 09

Venue: Hotel Poblado Plaza, Medellin, Colombia
Organisers:Una and CINDE

Objectives:

  1. To share the objectives, philosophy, strategies advances and next steps of Una, The Global Initiative about Ethnic Diversity and Early Childhood.
  2. To share ideas about the situation of Early Childhood in Colombia and Experiences dealing with ethnic Diverse Young Children and children in conflict situations.
  3. To identify lessons from Una that could be applied in the Colombian Context at the national and local level and lessons from Colombian experience that could be applied for the international organizations belonging to Una.

Program

(Please note: PDF versions of the presentations will made made available shortly on this page to download)

9:00am

  • Greetings to the participants and presentation of the program - Dr Marta Arango Director CINDE           

9:15am

  • Introduction of the participants - Maria Cristina Garcia- CINDE

9:45am

  • An Overview of the Una initiative - Professor Paul Connolly, Co-Director of Una, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

10:15 - 11.15am

  • Problems and perspectives on Indian Education in Antioquia - Dr. Carlos Salazar.
  • Toward Inclusive Programs for Afro Americans in Antioquia -    Dr.  Vicente Bryan Rivas.
  • Situation of the Early Childhood Education in Antioquia - Dra. Monica Jaramillo

11.15 - 11.45am        

  • Coffee  Break

11.45am to 1.00pm  

  • Perspectives on Una Learning Groups - Una Steering Committee members

1:00 - 2:00pm              

  • Lunch

2:00 - 3:30pm            

  • Save the Children Alliance, Jorge Ivan Garcia
  • The Glen Nimnicht Scholarship Fund:  A social inclusion strategy for children in conflict - Dr. José Luis Gomez - Fund for Environmental Action and Childhood
  • Organization of Iberoamerican States for Education, Scientific and Cultural (OEI) - Dr.  Maria Cristina Escobar Remicio, Emily Johana Quevedo Pinzón.  District Secretariat of Social Integration.
  • Cinde´s Experiences  - Dr. Cristina Garcia

3:30 - 4:00pm            

  • Coffee Break

4:00 to 5:00pm

  • Reflections and Lessons Learned - Panel of experts from Universities, NGO's, Government, Foundations, Students and Una - Dr. Catalina Cock -  Director Fundación Mi Sangre; Dr. Eliana Seda -  University Autónoma México UNAM- Una; Dr Fernando Peñaranda - University of Antioquia; Jose Luis Gomez - Fund for Environmental Action and Early Childhood; Moderator: Alejandro Acosta.

5:00 -5:15pm

  • Closing of the seminar

 

 

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