Legislative and Public Policy Development

Legislative and Public Policy Development

  • Identification mission to design a strategy for the establishment and management of a 15 million USD endowment fund to support early childhood programs

    Place: Bogotá
    Bogotá

    Identification mission to design a strategy for the establishment and management of a 15 million USD endowment fund to support early childhood programs in Colombia. The strategy aimed at making durable the existing funds available and increasing their impact to strengthen Community Based Organizations (CBO’s) focused in children. The funds were provided by a Colombian/US “debt for investment” agreement. Type of services provided Senior Legislation expert. Junior Legislation expert. Logistics/administrative support activities for the experts. (Documentation research, document quality check, linguistic revision, logistics matters, etc).

  • Study of the Higher Education system in Mashreq.

    Place: Egypt
    Cairo

    Ideaborn carried out a research about higher education in Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. The goal was to forecast future collaboration among Catalonian universities and the ones from Mashreq. The research checked out the needs and the offer capacity of postgraduate education and doctorate in each one of the universities, as well as their abilities for investigation. A next stage was planned in which the agreements between the Catalonian universities and the ones from Middle East can be carried out to make possible the achievement of master’s degree programmes and postgraduate education, in Cataluña and Mashreq. Type of services provided Read more [...]

  • Programme to strengthening existing Higher Education cooperation initiatives among Machrek countries and Iraq

    Place: Spain
    Madrid

    Ideaborn designed a 3-stage-strategy to fulfill the requirements of the Consell Interuniversitari de Cataluña (CIC) to reach formulas to make possible the North-South cooperation in the educational system. For the first stage there was to identify exiting cooperation agreements between the University of Damascus (Syria) and the Universities of Baghdad and Al Ramady (Iraq). The agreements encouraged the academic cooperation and investigation dedicated to desertification studies. The ideaborn’s contribution was to prepare a programme to make stronger these agreements involving Spanish universities and the chance to make a proposal to get funds from the Spanish government. The project considered: (i) Read more [...]

  • Design a support programme for the education of Human Rights and democratic values in the schools of Antioquia.

    Place: Bogotá
    Bogotá

    Design of an educational program on human rights, democratic and constitutional values to be delivered in the schools of the Antioquia state/department. Preparation of a technical proposal to assist the regional government of Antioquia and the delegation of the ombudsman of Colombia in that department. Work done: Preparation of the project following the logical framework approach and based on the analysis of existing material, interviews and workshops with relevant actors. The expert from Ideaborn had the opportunity to get acquainted with violence issues in Colombia and with the main methods to educate children on the use of conciliation in conflict Read more [...]

  • Development of human rights, democracy and citizenship education

    Place: Turkey
    Kayseri

    Formulation of a program aimed at increasing the knowledge of teachers on basic fundamental rights included in the Turkish constitution, in the European Convention on Human Rights and in the Convention on the Rights of the Children. The project was prepared with the participation of local entities so as to replicate the experience in the whole country through various phases in order to incorporate lessons learned. The project included the design of a program for training of trainers, teachers and youngsters from schools. These latter would participate in the design of proposals to enhance participation and promote the respect of Read more [...]

  • Establishment of a Human Rights Documentation Centre.

    Place: Barcelona
    Barcelona

    The « Llibreria IDEA » has been the start-up project, aiming at the promotion and diffusion of Human Rights among civil society. Thus, Ideaborn started the 4-year-project for the promotion of Human Rights with two thousand books donated by the World Bank and a surface of two hundred square meters in the ancient place of Barcelona in Catalonia, in Spain (El Born/ La Ribera). Type of services provided The centre provided the following services: 1. Borrowing of Books and documents about political, social, cultural, civil and environmental rights worldwide. 2. Sale of literature (essays, novels, poetry, and theatre) from Asia, Read more [...]