| Research in Nepal
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| CERG has collaborated
a great deal in recent years with the Save the Children
Alliance in Nepal. The related publications co-authored
with members of CERG, Sheridan Bartlett and
Roger Hart, are available at: www.savethechildren.net/nepal/members_programmes/norwaypubs.html
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What’s the
Difference? The Impact of Early Childhood Development
Programs: A Study from Nepal
This book describes an early childhood program in Nepal
and the dramatic effects it has had over just a few
years, not only for children, but for their families
and communities. It looks in particular at the impact
the program has had on children’s transition into
school, a significant issue in a country where many
children never start school and where those who do drop
out in large numbers during the first year.
Authors: Sheridan Bartlett, Caroline Arnold,
Pashupati Sapkota
Other on-going work in Nepal includes an investigation
of the effectiveness of a range of programs for dalit
(untouchable) children, and support for various initiatives
aimed at improving the quality of schooling in Nepal.
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The Children's
Clubs of Nepal: A Democratic Experiment
Save the Children Norway and US joined together in
1997 to look more systematically at the experiences
of their own program initiatives involving child clubs
over the past half decade. Between them they had amassed
several years of experience of working with children
in these clubs. The study that this publication reports
on was commissioned because the agencies wished to
learn about this mushrooming growth of children's
institutions. The clubs seemed to have a number of
features that represented the emergence of an important
new kind of institutional opportunity for children,
with great significance for Nepal and also, possibly,
for other countries. The methods that the research
team developed have ongoing application in the further
development of the child clubs and, more generally,
for any children's organization that wish to monitor
and improve their democratic functioning. The video
describing these methods, "Mirror
of Ourselves" is available from CERG.
Authors: Jasmine Rajbhandary, Roger Hart and Chandrika
Khatiwada
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Bringing up Children
in a Changing World: Whose Rights? The research
on which this publication is based explores ways to
initiate a more meaningful dialogue with parents and
other caregivers about how best to build a positive
future for their children. The study has tried to
document beliefs and practices about child rearing
in a number of distinct communities in Nepal. It also
looks at the subtle and contextual processes of children's
development in the natural environment of the home,
where learning merges imperceptibly into the rhythms
of everyday village life. The four villages selected
for the study represent a range of conditions within
Nepal in terms of environmental factors, social composition
and local resources.
Authors: Caroline Arnold, Sheridan Bartlett,
Joanna Hill, Chandrika Khatiwada and Pashupati Sapkota
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Conversations
with Families: To Prepare for Early Childhood Programming
(Participatory Research Handbook) This handbook
builds on the experience of a research project in
Nepal, a qualitative investigation into child rearing
practices and beliefs in four rural communities. It
is designed for organizations or agencies wanting
to establish early childhood programming that is responsive
to the realities of specific communities. It describes
the process through which data collection and analysis
are planned and implemented, involving community members
as far as possible, in order to find the best way
to adapt the mission and capacity of the organization
to local needs and preferences.
Authors: Sheridan Bartlett, Joanna Hill, Caroline
Arnold, Jasmine Rajbhandary, Julian Kramer, Roger
Hart, Tarana Rai, Pashupati Sapkota and Chandrika
Khatiwada
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The Documentation
of Children's Organizations in Nepal |
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as part of a general attempt by the Save the Children
Alliance to improve the degree to which children particpate
in the design, running, and evaluation of programs for
them. CERG was employed to design the methodology for
this study and to jointly direct the study with a member
of the International Human Rights Environment and Development
Center (INHURED) in Nepal. This research involved the
study of patterns of democratic organization and processes
in the hundreds of children's clubs that have sprung
up through Nepal in the wake of the U.N. Convention
on the Rights of the Child. See "Publications"
for information on the video "Mirrors
of Ourselves." |
| Sponsors:
Save the Children (Norway) and
Save the Children (US) |
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| Child-Rearing Study
in Nepal |
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| CERG has been involved over
the last four years in supporting early childhood development
work in Nepal through assistance with research and training.
The first phase of this work involved assistance with
a four village study looking at child rearing beliefs,
goals and practices, with the objective of encouraging
ECD programming that would build on the strengths, traditions
and resourcefulness of local communities. CERG helped
complete a methods handbook for organizations that were
interested in conducting similar studies or pre-programming
assessments. |
| Sponsor:
Save the Children |
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