SDGs & Families (Global Project)
The first Global Meeting of the Sustainable Development Goals and Families Project, promoted by IFFD, was held in Barcelona on November 10-11, with experts from the five continents. The purpose of the project, sponsored by CaixaBank, is to help policymakers to...
Conference on ‘Family and Children’s and Rights’
Ignacio Socías, Director of Institutional Relations for IFFD, took part as an expert on the family at the 4th International Family Conference on ‘Family and Children’s Rights’, held on November 19-20 in Abuja, and organized by UFUK Dialog Foundation in Nigeria. With...
Spain
A new First Steps Family Enrichment course started in Alcala de Henares, Madrid. More than 30 young parents took part in the first training session, which was held on November 18. More than 250 courses are held in Spain every year, with around 5,000 families taking...
Training in Hong Kong
A one-day moderator training course was held in Hong Kong in early September 2016. About 75 people attended the course which was divided into four teams: one English-speaking, one Mandarin-speaking and two Chinese-Cantonese-speaking. Spanish moderators Josemaria...
Pilot program in Korea
On October 29, the first IFFD course in Korea began, in the city of Seoul. The course in question is a pilot course for the First Steps program, which will be delivered with the help of national and international experts. IFFD is very excited about this new...
IFFD Paper 59
Measuring children and youth well-being Are society’s youngest and most vulnerable overlooked? Signed more than two thirds of a century ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ushered in a civil rights revolution. But there was a fatal oversight: society’s...
Family Enrichment Ireland
On November 6, two groups of parents were very excited to start First Steps and First Letters programs in Dublin. The courses, aimed at helping parents with children under the age of 8 to develop their parenting skills, will take place simultaneously until they both...
Croatia
On October 23, IFFD carried out a Personal Project training session in Zagreb, with around 20 moderators, two of whom travelled from Slovenia to take part. The aim of this training course is to prepare Croatian moderators to launch the Personal Project program. This...
Expansion in Mexico
A new LAR has been set up for the city of León. Additionally, two moderator training courses were held on October 15 & 16 in Mexico City, with 28 participants, and in the city of Hermosillo, with 27 moderators taking part.
