Related Activities
A resource group stemming from the Multi-National project at Chapin Hall was supported by Childwatch International to organize a session at the Childhoods Oslo 2005 conference in Oslo, July 2005 and to support the regional groups.
Regional seminars have been organized in Bratislava, by the Bratislava Centre for Work and Family Studies in 2002, and by Maria Herzog at the institute for criminology in Budapest, Hungary in 2003.
A forum discussion with the Central and Eastern European network partners was held at the Childhoods 2005 Oslo conference, under the title: Childwatch networking in Central and Eastern Europe: From Bratislava to Budapest: Prograss in Creating a Network of Child Researchers in Eastern and Central Europe. The discussion was organized as a follow up of the papers presented by Erika Kvapilova, Lenka Sulova and Zoran Pavlovic on Multi-national efforts to measure and monitor children's well being.
The Key Institution at the University of Western Cape organized a conference and a technical meeting on the issue of indicators of children's well-being in 2004, supported by Childwatch International. The South Africa initiative is being followed up by a collaborative project between the Childwatch Key Institution in Sydney, Australia, the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney.
Contact Information
The multi-national project on indicators of children's well-being can be contacted through Asher Ben-Arieh at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: benarieh [at] cc.huji.ac.il
The contact for the South African initiative is Dr. Rose September of the Children and Youth Training Programme.
rseptember [at] uwc.ac.za
List of Participants
The Childwatch International regional network on Indicators of children's well-being in Central and Eastern Europe stems from the partnership between the Key Institutions at Clemson University, USA:Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, and in Prague, the Czech Republic: Center for Family Environments (2000 - 2003).
The coordinators of the Central and Eastern Europe group are:
Mark Small of Clemson University, USA
msmall [at] clemson.edu
Hana Pazlarova of the Centre for Family Environments, Prague, Czech Rep.
hana.pazlarova [at] c-mail.cz
Erika Kvapilova of UNIFEM, Bratislava, Slovenia
erika.kvapilova [at] undp.org