MayaAjmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on theglobal agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemmingfrom the community level. Arguing thatthe existing global agenda for children has failed, this book reimagines howsociety can support the world's most vulnerable children. In doing so, Invisible Children identifies and gives voice to the millions ofchildren globally living on society's margins, while showing a way forward asto how we can best invest in children.
MayaAjmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on theglobal agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemmingfrom the community level. Arguing thatthe existing global agenda for children has failed, this book reimagines howsociety can support the world's most vulnerable children. In doing so, Invisible Children identifies and gives voice to the millions ofchildren globally living on society's margins, while showing a way forward asto how we can best invest in children.
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Autorenporträt
Maya Ajmera is currently President and CEO of the Society for Science & the Public, and Publisher of Science News. She is a professorial lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She founded and led for 18 years The Global Fund for Children that invests in innovative community based organizations serving the most vulnerable young people in the world. Gregory A. Fields worked with Maya Ajmera at the Global Fund for Children, emphasizing fund raising, strategic planning and external relations. Subsequent to his time at GFC, he founded an international development consultancy, and is now a professional writer and editor.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I: The Darkness of Obscurity.- Chapter 1: Hiding in Plain Sight - Who Are These Children?.- Chapter 2: Why Should We Care?.- Chapter 3: A Glass Half Full; A Glass Half Empty.- Chapter 4: Boxed in by Good Intentions - Working in Silos.- Part II: Lights Breaking in Darkness.- Chapter 5: Meeting Children Where They Are.- Chapter 6: Community-Based Organizations - Organic Seeds of Change-. Chapter 7: Going to Scale.- Chapter 9: Enabling the Work on the Ground - Supporting Children at the Grassroots.- Conclusion: Fulfilling the Promise: Changing the Systems that can Change the Lives of Children-.
Part I: The Darkness of Obscurity.- Chapter 1: Hiding in Plain Sight - Who Are These Children?.- Chapter 2: Why Should We Care?.- Chapter 3: A Glass Half Full; A Glass Half Empty.- Chapter 4: Boxed in by Good Intentions - Working in Silos.- Part II: Lights Breaking in Darkness.- Chapter 5: Meeting Children Where They Are.- Chapter 6: Community-Based Organizations - Organic Seeds of Change-. Chapter 7: Going to Scale.- Chapter 9: Enabling the Work on the Ground - Supporting Children at the Grassroots.- Conclusion: Fulfilling the Promise: Changing the Systems that can Change the Lives of Children-.
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