Sharing Knowledge
Global Health, Population, and Nutrition
Sumaila Saaka, behavior change advisor with the AED Center for Global Health Communication and Marketing, submitted a photo essay, How Behaviour Change Approaches Helped Improve Hygiene and Sanitation Practices in Northern Ghana, at the West Africa Regional Hygiene and Sanitation Symposium in Accra, Ghana, November 1–11, 2009.
The AED Center for Global Health Communication and Marketing participated in the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, November 7–11, 2009:
- Elizabeth Younger, senior behavior change advisor, submitted the poster presentation, Diarrhea and Menstrual Blood Management: A Challenge for Home-based Care Providers.
- Eleonore Seumo, senior program advisor, gave an oral presentation, titled Water and Sanitation Management Considerations for HIV Programs.
- Renu Bery, senior program manager, submitted the poster presentation, Why WASH matters: Integrating safe water, hygiene and sanitation into HIV care and support, and gave an oral presentation, titled Expanding Ethiopian Partnerships for At-scale Water, Hygiene and Sanitation Behavior Change.
Global Learning
Margaret Snow, education program officer with the AED Global Education Center, wrote a chapter, titled Qualified Teacher Status, One Indicator of the Teaching Profession’s Standards: Lessons for California from Finland, Korea and Ireland, in the book, Reforming Teaching and Learning—Comparative Perspectives in a Global Area. The book was published in December 2009.
The AED Global Education Center made numerous presentations at the Comparative International Education Society Conference held in Chicago, March 1–4:
- Dr. Audrey-marie Schuh Moore, deputy director of AED’s EQUIP2 project, and Elizabeth Adelman, program and research officer, presented A day in school: How much opportunity to learn do schools provide?
- Dr. James Wile, senior education advisor, with program officers Carrie Willimann and Erik Lundgren, presented Re-imagining Responsible Primary Education: Four Principles of Success in First Grade in a session chaired by AED President Stephen F. Moseley.
- John Gillies, vice president and director of the Center, presented Understanding Reform Processes, Institutional and School-level Impacts and Disconnects, and the Effectiveness of Donor Aid: Lessons from Central America in a session chaired by Felix Alvarado, senior education specialist.
- Dr. Mark Ginsburg, senior advisor for research, evaluation, and teacher education, presented Promoting Policy Planning and Implementation in Education.
Mary Joy Pigozzi, senior vice president and director of the AED Global Learning Group, gave a talk, titled The Education of Girls and Women in the World, at the Embassy of Luxembourg in Washington, D.C., in celebration of International Education Week November 18, 2009.
Leadership and Institutional Development
Timothy Nourse, chief of party in the West Bank with the AED Center for Enterprise and Capacity Development, co-authored Crossfire: Best Practice in a Post-emergency Environment Is No Different from Normal Enterprise Development and Microfinance, which was published in the March 2010 issue of Enterprise Development and Microfinance Journal.
Mary Worzala, director of energy programs with the AED Center for Enterprise and Capacity Development, presented a case study on Fuel-Efficient Stoves in a Northern Uganda IDP Camp for the Impact Evaluation Design Clinic hosted by InterAction and 3ie in Washington, D.C., April 28–29.
Several staff from the AED Center for International Exchanges participated in the annual meeting of the National Council for International Visitors, held in Washington, D.C., February 10–12:
- Carlton McLellan, Ph.D., deputy director of the International Visitors Leadership Program, moderated the session, The Wow Factor in Programming! Moving beyond the usual.
- Pauline Devinger, program manager of the Open World program, served as a panelist in the session, Fee-For-Service Programs.
- Monika Wilcox, program officer, served as a panelist in the session, Marketing Your Organization and Programs Through a Stellar Proposal.
Social Change
AED attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009 as an official observer. The delegation included Gregory Niblett, senior vice president and director of the AED Social Change Group, and, from the AED Center for Environmental Strategies, were Richard Bossi, vice president and director, and Carmen Tedesco, program officer.
Tareq Bakri, senior program coordinator on disability rights with the AED Center for Civil Society and Governance, presented a case study on the Jordanian experience in the first shadow report on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at a conference organized by the Arab Council for Childhood & Development in Cairo, February 2–4.
U.S. Education and Workforce Development
Dr. Alexandra Weinbaum, senior fellow, and Dr. Adria Gallup-Black, senior program officer in the AED Center for Schools and Community Services, spoke at the annual U.S. Department of Education School Leadership Program Conference, held in Washington, D.C., February 3–4. Dr. Weinbaum presented Education Leadership: Decision Rubrics, an Assessment Tool, and Dr. Gallup-Black presented her work on measuring effective middle school leadership.
Guadalupe Cuesta, director of the National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Collaboration Office at AED, presented the white paper, Building from Within: Improving the Skills and Credentials of Migrant, Seasonal, and American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Teachers, at the annual meeting of the National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association in Washington, D.C., February 23. The paper was written by Sean Cavanagh, technical officer; Arati Singh, senior program officer; and Pamela Levine, research and evaluation officer, all with the AED U.S. Education and Workforce Development Group.
Cuesta and Katherine Boswell, director of the AED Community College Policy Center, also presented Building from Within at the annual meeting of the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Program in Baltimore, Maryland, March 27.
Rochelle Nichols-Solomon, director of Postsecondary Access and Success Programs with the AED Center for Schools and Community Services, participated in a Citi Dialogue on college readiness, access, and success at a meeting organized by the Citi Foundation for its national, state, and local directors of community relations in Philadelphia, March 25.
AED in the Community
AED is actively connecting with the local Washington, D.C. community to promote dialogue on social issues. Recent events include:
- An Inspirational Evening of Art, Music, and Poetry, with Justice for D.C. Youth
- The D.C. Environmental Film Festival, official screening location
- Earth Day Celebration, with Washington Film Institute
- The 2010 DC Big Read, with the Humanities Council of Washington D.C., the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the D.C. Public Library system
For more information, contact Mario Bravo at (202) 884-8024, or mbravo@aed.org.
Two New Blogs
A new pair of online forums will keep you on top of the latest news, events, and ideas happening at AED.
- The Hub offers news and analysis of AED projects supporting education, health, social and economic development around the world—and the connection between those efforts and the latest news.
- KnowlEDge describes our work on U.S. education and workforce issues, in areas ranging from early childhood to community colleges, services for special-needs students to youth media.
