Mid-Campaign Meeting 2009

Aflatoun, in collaboration with the Ministry of State for Family and Population in Egypt, held its Mid-Campaign meeting July 5-7, 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. The meeting was hosted under the auspices of HE Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of Egypt and brought together over 170 partners and stakeholders from 50 countries.

A detailed overview of the meeting can be found in the Mid-Campaign Meeting Report.

Mid-Campaign Meeting Highlights

* Egypt became the first country to annouce the integration of the Aflatoun Curriculum into its national curriculum

* The first ever children's participation session held with over 50 of Egypt's Aflatoun children participating in a “Children's Panel”

* Five new Regional Representatives were elected to the Aflatoun General Board

* Children & Change 2009 edition was unveiled, featuring current research on Aflatoun

* A new Aflatoun video was showcased 

* Aflatoun's four Taskforces for Quality Assurance, Impact Assessment, Child Participation, and Curriculum Development met and new regional representatives were elected

* Two new Taskforces were formed: Afla-Finance (financial access for Aflatoun children) and Afla-Innovations (new projects and product ideas)

* Partnership agreements were signed with 63 organizations to implement the Aflatoun Programmes in various countries

* The Afla-Kit was unveiled - a set of guidebooks and manuals for use by new organizations implementing Aflatoun. This was made available in four official languages (Arabic, English, Spanish and French). Copies are available upon request.

* The Learning Kit was showcased - Aflatoun's regional set of children's workbooks in four languages, contextualised for the 6 different regions: Americas, Europe, Africa (Anglophone and Francophone), Asia and the Middle East. Chapters of each can be found in the Global compilation book .