ICT-Based Child Advocacy

Information Technology Making a Difference in Children's Lives: An Issue Brief for Leaders for Children

...a briefing on how information and communication technology (ICT) impacts and can enhance the lives of children. The briefing offers research data and concrete examples that show how digital tools and applications can improve various aspects of children's lives, enhancing their education, health, employment, and civic opportunities...

Stop the Silence: Talk Around the Clock - Help End Child Sexual Abuse

...an effort to help catalyse global action on child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention and treatment during a 24-hour information and awareness raising marathon that uses web-based media to reach a worldwide audience with information, messages, and artistic expression to increase awareness, restore hope and integrity, and increase concrete action...

Parent Behaviour Studies

Projahnmo I Sub-study: Maternal Behaviors and Morbidity during Pregnancy, Delivery, and the Early Postpartum Period in Rural Bangladesh

...communication-based investigative research which drew largely on interpersonal communication (IPC) in or near the household level, with an emphasis on involving the entire range of decision-makers in the lives of pregnant women. The interventions included behaviour change communication (BCC) to improve maternal knowledge and practices, promotion of services focusing on birth and newborn care preparedness (BNCP), safe and clean delivery, essential newborn care, and management of serious neonatal illness...

Rural Parents' Perspectives about Information on Child Immunization

...a study in Alberta, Canada, to gain insight into parents' need for information about child immunisation, in order to improve and/or optimise information shared by rural health professionals. The authors wanted to understand how the availability - and, more recently, the explosion - of information about immunisation impacts parental decision-making...