The Education of Children with Special Needs: Barriers and Opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe

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The UNICEF International Child Development Centre (ICDC) in Florence, Italy, is an international knowledge base and training centre focusing on the rights of children. It was established in 1988 to strengthen the capacity of UNICEF and its cooperating institutions to promote a new global ethic for children and to respond to their evolving needs. A primary objective of the Centre is to encourage the effective implementation of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in both developing and industrialized countries.
• Information management is at the heart of the Centre's approach. The Centre systematically filters existing information and its own research results to produce key findings, policy studies and case materials on key aspects relating to children's rights.
• Research, particularly to explore both critical and front-line issues, is carried out to further the understanding, development and monitoring of children's rights. Special attention is... Tovább

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The UNICEF International Child Development Centre (ICDC) in Florence, Italy, is an international knowledge base and training centre focusing on the rights of children. It was established in 1988 to strengthen the capacity of UNICEF and its cooperating institutions to promote a new global ethic for children and to respond to their evolving needs. A primary objective of the Centre is to encourage the effective implementation of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in both developing and industrialized countries.
• Information management is at the heart of the Centre's approach. The Centre systematically filters existing information and its own research results to produce key findings, policy studies and case materials on key aspects relating to children's rights.
• Research, particularly to explore both critical and front-line issues, is carried out to further the understanding, development and monitoring of children's rights. Special attention is paid to problems of equity, economic affordability and the financing of social programmes to benefit children.
• Capacity building is the third important component of ICDC's activities. The emphasis is on improving understanding of the principles of the CRC to enable UNICEF staff to promote its implementation more effectively.
The Centre disseminates the results of its activities through seminars, training workshops and publications targeted at executive decision-makers, programme managers, researchers and other practitioners in child-related fields, both inside and outside UNICEF The government of Italy has provided core funding for the Centre since its establishment, and other governments, International institutions and private organizations have provided supplementary funds for specific projects. The Centre benefits from the counsel of an International Advisory Committee, chaired by UNICEF's Executive Director. Vissza