The Inter-agency Group on Children’s Reintegration is currently carrying out desk based research on reintegration.  The group is headed by Family for Every Child and others members include representatives from BCN, UNICEF, USAID, the CPC Learning Network, World Vision, IRC, UHI Centre for Rural Childhood, Save the Children and Maestral International. 

We are seeking published and unpublished research reports on reintegration or evaluations of reintegration interventions spanning the full range of separated children, including those affected by emergencies, in alternative care, and trafficked/ migrant children. 

We are also requesting practitioners to complete a short survey on reintegration to complement this literature review.  The survey should take no longer than 30 minutes to complete.   It aims to: identify commonalities and differences in reintegration programming for children in different contexts; draw out unpublished literature; identify major areas of concern for those working to improve practice in reintegration, and identify potential participants for key informant interviews. 

Please send all relevant literature by 15thof March to: laura.crosby@familyforeverychild.org

Please complete the survey by 15th of March following this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3VSCY2W
 
 
Emily Delap
Head of Policy
Family for Every Child

In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.

View the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/education/harvard-and-mit-team-up-to-offer-free-online-courses.html?_r=1&hp

How a Cambridge mathematician’s protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost-boycott-scientific-journals

Wellcome backs campaign to break stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared free online.

Link to article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust-academic-spring

Wow. Just…wow. Some interesting discussions on the RRN Facebook page –  www.facebook.com/groups/30614536012/

 www.kony2012.com

Matt Galloway spoke with Robin Roth, she is a professor of geography at York University, and with Ei Phyu Han, she is a PhD student and a teaching assistant at York. They were speaking about a geography course taught at the university, that is also offered to refugees living on the Thai-Burma border.

The podcast can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/02/22/course-for-refugees/

The Fourth Annual Howard Adelman Lecture was recently held in Toronto, Canada on November 1, 2011 with guest speaker Robert Rubinstein, author of  An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada, Winner of the 2011 Canadian Jewish Book Award, in the category of Holocaust Literature.

A beautifully delivered talk on being a Jewish refugee in an Italian camp after the Second World War. As you listen, you realise that not much has changed over the last 60+ years in how camps are run, camp inhabitants treated, and how people try to cope in bureaucratic and sometimes unwelcoming administrations.

View the video HERE

Today the European Parliament formally adopted a new set of asylum rules for the European Union. The binding rules now include gender identity as a ground of persecution, which EU Member States must take into account. Governments have already agreed to the changes, which are final.

For more information, visit: http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/historic-vote-extends-eu-asylum-standards-to-transgender-people/

http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kaminsky.html

Received this blog about Dadaab from the refugee perspective: A Voice from the Voiceless – Dadaab Refugee Camps Kenya