Related Activities:
Louise Chawla, who was a Fulbright Scholar in 1995 at the Children and Environment programme at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, developed the plans for replicating the study. As the coordinator of the global project, she identified research contacts at the original sites and made contact with new sites, interested in participating in the project.
The Growing Up in Cities project comprised teams at sites in seven countries:
• Salta and Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Melbourne, Australia
• Bangalore, India
• Warsaw, Poland
• Trondheim, Norway
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Oakland, California, USA
List of Participants:
The project was supported by the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Childwatch International, the Management of Social Transformations, MOST, programme of UNESCO, and by UNICEF, in addition to the local support and funding of the site studies.