{"title":"China. FP education at the grassroots level.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to reach the grassroots level with family planning information, the Publicity and Education Department of State Family Planning Commission (SFPC) established a network of FP and communication centers in 29 provinces to undertake FP publicity and disseminate educational materials. However, these mechanisms were not far-reaching enough to cover the rural and more remote areas of the counties where information was most needed and have direct access to grassroot FP service providers, fieldworkers, and end-users. Thus, the SFPC decided to further set up 180 pilot county stations under the project CPR/90/P17 (Strengthening Rural Grassroots Family Planning Publicity and Education). These pilot county stations provided training and guided village/township FP workers and service providers on how to communicate FP to the target groups effectively. They also strengthened the existing 29 Provincial Publicity and Education Sub-Centers through training programs, production and distribution of appropriate IEC materials. The project was recently evaluated with the assistance of UNESCO CST Population Communication Adviser, who reported a number of weaknesses as well as successes in the implementation of the project. Based on the findings, the evaluation report recommended the improvement of the training in various aspects to suit the Chinese culture. It proposed that the training curriculum should be \"need-based\" and developed through participatory approach, with specific behavioral objectives, using participatory training methodologies and competency-based evaluation. It also recommended that the content of future IEC materials should be updated on a regular basis, using survey findings in the local area where possible in response to the finding that most IEC materials had taken on urban, mass-media bias. It further added that the materials should include new messages on how to combat rumors and misconceptions on various FP methods, on responsible sexual behavior, on teenage pregnancy and prevention and on reproductive health needs of adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 42","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Project document drafted to revitalize population education.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the pipeline is the recently developed draft project document aimed at revitalizing and strengthening the population education in the country. It is now under review and approval. To reactivate the population education program, the project calls for the issuance of an Executive Order by the Department of Education, Culture and Sports to create a national Population Education Center and the establishment of 15 Regional Population Education Offices and 133 population education desks at the divisional level. This institutional network will ensure the nationwide implementation of population education program. It will also update and revise some existing curricula and develop new teaching/learning materials for kindergarten, elementary and university level as well as packages for learners and fieldworkers of nonformal education. The first baseline activities to accomplish this are to review the existing curricula for population education messages from kindergarten to grade 11 and university level as well as a survey to determine population learning needs of pupils and teachers from kindergarten to university level. The project will also go into training and re-training of project staff, trainers at national and regional levels, 2000 new teachers and 1000 formerly trained teachers and 17 documentation/library assistants. Strengthening of its Documentation Center and setting up to an information network will also be undertaken. Thus, by the end of the project, it is envisaged that about half a million students and 2500 educators would have increased their knowledge and developed positive attitudes towards population-related concepts.</p>","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 42","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maldives. Package on population education for special interest groups developed.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Population Education Program of the Non-Formal Education Center has developed a package of Population Education for Special Interest Groups comprising a learning package and fieldworker's guide. The learning package is especially developed for teaching population education for out-of-school populations. Special interest groups in Maldives include newly married couples, adolescents, and working youth. Produced under the guidance of UNESCO, Bangkok, the package contains 36 different materials such as posters, charts, leaflets, booklets, stories, and illustrated booklets which may be taught in 36 to 45 periods. The materials deal with eight themes, namely, family size and family welfare, population and resources, delayed marriage and parenthood, responsible parenthood, population-related values and beliefs, women in development, AIDS/STD, and respect for old people. Accompanying the learning package is the fieldworker's guide used to teach the package. It contains individual guides for each of the 36 learning materials. The guide gives the titles of the materials, format, objectives of the materials, messages, target groups, and an overview of the content of each learning materials. The methodologies used for teaching the learning materials include role playing, group discussion, questioning, brainstorming, survey, creative writing, problem-solving and evaluation. The package will be used by fieldworkers to conduct island-based population education courses.</p>","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 42","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indonesia. Adolescent reproductive health forms part of 5th country programme cycle.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Indonesia is now entering the Fifth Country Program Cycle of Population. The reproductive health and family well-being of the youth forms part of the country program. In order to translate this component into concrete action program, a project document in its first draft was developed for UNFPA (UN Population Fund) funding by the government and with the assistance of UNFPA CST, Bangkok and UNFPA Field Office in Jakarta. The project aims to raise the level of commitment and degree of participation of families, particularly parents, for developing among their pre-adolescent and adolescent children a better understanding of the concepts/process of adolescent reproductive health and desirable attitudes and values dealing with family well-being. This is to be achieved through family-centered learning approaches that will contribute to the adoption of the small, happy, and prosperous family norm. To achieve this goal, the project will develop national capacity by creating management teams, developing sets of training and counseling materials, delivering key messages through the media, upgrading skills in adolescent counseling and developing better understanding of adolescent reproductive health and family well-being issues among the facilitators. The strategy to be used is to set up small groups of 20-30 families which will regularly meet to discuss adolescent problems and issues with the help of cadres. They will be supported by provincial reproductive health and family well-being counseling centers which will also be set up to handle serious cases difficult for parents to handle. These centers, to be run by NGOs, will provide counseling services to parents and youth, evolve innovative and culturally acceptable counseling techniques, and at the same time serve as material and information collection, development and dissemination centers. The project will be launched in collaboration with seven NGOs in seven selected provinces. It is currently under review by UNFPA and the Government.</p>","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 42","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Content of educational programmes for men.","authors":"C Hein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 42","pages":"27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information, education and communication. Developments and trends in population IEC.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 42","pages":"15-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India. Content analysis reveals extensive coverage of population contents in textbooks.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A content analysis undertaken on textbooks for classes I-X of Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh revealed that population-related messages are being conveyed through as many as 107 lessons in Bihar, 158 lessons in Rajasthan and 99 in Uttar Pradesh through their textbooks on languages, social sciences and science. The study further revealed that the number of lessons carrying population education contents were more in the primary level than in other school levels. This trend was the same in all the three states included in the study. The report pointed out the advantage of this finding in terms of the high drop-out rates of children at the primary stage. The study also found out that messages pertaining to population change and resource development have been conveyed through more entry points as compared to the messages on adolescence education, which found only scanty places in the textbooks. Nevertheless, the study pointed out that population-related messages on the different themes are being conveyed in all subject areas and to the students of all the three stages of school education. These themes included family size and family welfare, proper age at marriage, responsible parenthood, population change and resource development, population-related values and beliefs, status of women, and adolescence education. The study was conducted by the Population Education Unit of NCERT to find out the extent of coverage of and gaps in population-related themes being conveyed to students through the textbooks in the three states which are demographically backward.</p>","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 42","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Various states celebrate population education week.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 39","pages":"14-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22037714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ten-year population education programme reaps good results.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 39","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22038348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pilot project on population education under approval. Lao PDR.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85314,"journal":{"name":"Population education in Asia and the Pacific newsletter","volume":" 40","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}