The training programme consists of five courses: two available
through Distance Learning and three to be held in Milan during
May - June 2008.
- Children Rights. International Standards and the Process
of Implementation (distance learning) : 19 - 29 may 2008
Description: The course is aimed at providing a general reference
framework on
international, regional and relevant national legal tools on
children's rights,
assessing their actual level of implementation and linking the
human rights
perspective to other general issues as the social dimension
of the right to
sustainable development.
An overview will be also given on the role and specific activity
and policies of
different actors - such as International Organisations, Governments,
NGOs, Trade
Unions and the private sector - in contributing to the implementation
of
children's rights, stressing the cruciality of a multistakeholder
approach on
children's rights.
An in -depth analysis will be finally developed on specific
issues that show
outstanding developments on the rights of the child or gaps
in their
implementation.
Lecturer: Mariarosa Cutillo
Mariarosa Cutillo, graduated in International Law, is responsible
for the
external and international relations of Mani Tese. She works
on sustainable
development cooperation projects, human rights, children's rights
promotion,
political campaigns and awareness activities. Coordinator of
the project
"From Exploitation to Education: 3 year awareness building
programme 2002 -
2005" and organizer of the "First Children's World
Congress on Child Labour,
with the collaboration of Mani Tese, CGIL,
CISL e UIL (Trade Unions). She is also Mani Tese 's delegate
in the United
Nations Council of Economic and Social Affaire, in the International
Labour
Organization, in the Human Rights Council and in the World Bank.
-
“Globalization, migration and development: children
on the move”: 30 - 31 may 2008
Description: The course will look ad children and migration
as a specific
practical case for understanding new challenges and opportunities
in
identifying policy interventions on children and development.
The course will
explore examples at international level and in developing countries,
at
regional level in Europe, and in Italy. It seeks to identify
and discuss the
reasons for the relative neglect of child and youth migrants
and to propose
concrete actions that will include children and youth in the
migration and
development policy terrain.
Lecturer: Andrea Rossi
Andrea Rossi is the director of the Measurement & Human
Rights Program at
Harvard University in the Kennedy School of Government. Prior,
he was the
child protection advisor on trafficking and migration for the
United
Nations Children's' Fund (UNICEF) in New York Headquarters.
Trained as a
development economist, he is the former research coordinator
of UNICEF's
Innocenti Research Centre. He has previously worked for the
International
Labour Organization (ILO) in the East Africa Area Office, Tanzania
as
officer in charge of research and statistics. He is member of
the faculty
of the International Programme for Development Evaluation Training
(IPDET)
for the World Bank, and teaches courses on "Research Methods
with Hidden
and Marginal Populations" and on Development.
-
“Children and MDG’s: goals, strategies and achievements
(distance learning): 7 - 17 june 2008
Description: The course aims to analyse the extent to which
issues relating to children's rights are dealt with in overall
policy and programming related to the MDGs. In particular, it
will explore the eight MDGs referring directly to children's
rights to health, education, as well as it will acknowledge
the central place of children in the effort to eradicate poverty.
The attention will be focused on an overall examination of progress
toward the MDGs. It will be also presented an overview of Save
the Children's projects in this field in order to give participants
a clear picture of the main activities that concerns MDGs' achievement.
Lecturers: Save the Children Italia Onlus
- “Child Participation. From national policies to local
actions”: 20– 21 june 2008
Lecturers: Christoph Baker 
Christoph Baker is Assistant Secretary General for the Italian
National Committee for UNICEF in Rome, Chief of Programme "Child
Friendly Cities" and Volunteer Coordinator. Prior, he worked
for the United Nations in Genčve, for the Society for International
Development and for the International Fund for Agriculture Development.
- “Child Survival and Development”: 27– 28
june 2008 <
The course aims to equip participants with an understanding
that enables them to address the multi-dimensional challenge
of supporting child survival and development in developing
countries. It will note the importance of the Millennium Development
Goals and of international standards, especially the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, for pursuing child survival and
development and will explore the role and functioning of formal
institutions including government legal, policy, and service
delivery mechanisms. This will be illustrated through concrete
examples of service delivery structures in the areas of health
and education and the interplay of different actors that make
them function. The course will also explore the role of informal
institutions that function as social norms to either promote
or hinder child survival and development. This will be illustrated
through concrete examples of persistent harmful traditional
practices which provide insights regarding the social processes
that bring about their abandonment.
