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The deadline for the presentation of projects for the National Innovation Prize for Human Development is 20th September 2005. The prize will be awarded on Friday 14th October.
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The Director and two experts of the Maloka Interactive Centre for the rapprochement of kids and students to Science and Technology (Bogotá, Colombia) will be on mission in Cuba from September 27th to October 5th. The mission is organized by the Cultural Centre for Science and Technology, the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the “Oficina del Historiador” of Old La Havana. The mission, which is organised within the framework of the UNDP Human Development Programme in collaboration with the MINVEC (Ministry for Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation of the Republic of Cuba) is aimed at assessing the feasibility of a cooperation project between Maloka and the Cultural Centre of Sciences and Technology for the transfer to Cuba of the didactic methods and materials elaborated by Maloka for the dissemination of science. The CITMA (Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of the Republic of Cuba) and the Japanese Embassy will be involved in the preparation of all the activities of the mission. On September 28th, a National Conference for the transfer of the Maloka experience in the framework of the UNDP ART/IDEASS initiative will be held at the Cuban National Capitolium. Many personalities of the national scientific community and authorities from the national Government and the city of La Havana will also participate in the Conference.

The ‘Mother Kangaroo’ method is now being implemented at the Durrës Obstetric Hospital, with the collaboration of the Albanian Ministry of Health, the WHO Albania, the UNDP Country Office and the IFAD/UNOPS PASARP Programme. The project received technical assistance from the author of the innovation Professor Hector Martinez and was supported by the Burlo Garofolo Medical Institute of Trieste (Italy). The Method is implemented in the Durrës Hospital in collaboration with the territorial health units, which orient potential ”kangaroo mothers” to the Hospital and guarantee the follow-up of “Kangaroo babies” once they go home. All “Kangaroo mothers” involved in the project have welcomed the method enthusiastically. For the first time, babies are placed close to their mothers soon after their birth, thus increasing breastfeeding and improving the mother-baby relationship. The project intends to consolidate the Method in Durrës and to extend it to other Albanian regions. In accordance with the Albanian Ministry of Health, the Durrës Hospital will act as the National Centre for the Mother Kangaroo Method by carrying out promotional and training activities and by establishing new “Mother Kangaroo Units” in other Albanian Hospitals and medical centres. Dr. Eduart Tushe, director of the division of Neonatology at the Maternity Hospital of Tirana, will act as national supervisor of the Mother Kangaroo Method ensuring its progressive adoption at a national level, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The ART WIN international laboratory (Welfare INnovations) of the Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, set up within the framework of the ART Partnership agreements with UNESCO, UNDP, OMS-WMC and UNOPS, will support the dissemination of the Mother Kangaroo method within the health care system of the Mediterranean countries.

From 13th to 19th June 2005 a mission of experts from the “Centro di Medicina Tradizionale Cinese Fior di Prugna” of the Public Health Agency 10 of Florence (Regione Toscana, Italy), pursued a very successful and valuable promotion of the Moxibustion method in Serbia, both at Local and National level. The mission - which consisted in a Seminar, various debates and activities - was prepared in collaboration with the Medical Faculty of the University of Kragujevac, with the Municipality of the City of Kragujevac and with the Institute of Social Medicine of the Republic of Serbia. A training course regarding the Moxibustion method was held in the Medical Faculty of Kragujevac. During the mission, specific meetings were held in Belgrade and Novi Sad with the representatives of the National Associations of Traditional Medicine and the Public Health authorities who are interested in the implementation of the Traditional and Natural Medicine and Practices in the public health system. The experts provided technical assistance to all the above mentioned actors for the elaboration of a project for the implementation of the Moxibustion method within the framework of the traditional medicine practices.

From 2nd to 6th May, a delegation of the Duress Obstetric Hospital carried out a scientific mission to Italy at the “Burlo Garofolo” Medical Institute of Trieste, pioneer of the Mother Kangaroo Method in Europe, within the framework of the activities for the implementation of the method in Albania.

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CONICYT and FUPADE (Fundación Ruben Darío), in collaboration with the UNDP Office in Nicaragua, and the APPI UNDP/UNOPS Program, have organized the 2nd “National Competition of Innovations for Human Development”, within the framework of IDEASS. The official launch of this event through all the medias is planned for 18 May 2005. The awards to the best innovations presented will be given during a ceremony organized for 29 September 2005. The CONICYT will form a multidisciplinary commission, involving recognized experts and personalities in the filed of human development. The competition will be open to all the organizations, NGO and Universities of Nicaragua acting in Human Development.

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