PROJECTS

Objectives: To collect, select, analyze, and disseminate documentary, organizational and projects information on the child and the family, to make it available to the community through the RIIN. 

Coverage:  21 National Information Centers and 86 Sub-Centers or User Centers (data up to September 2005) 

Tools:             Computer Program OPD 
Manuals 
Forms
Vocabulary with scope notes and definitions
Training Program 
Regional Workshops (each year) 

Information products:      Bibliographical Journal in 4 series (Legal Affairs, Social Affairs, Health, Education) published
                                        every  six months since 1987. It is on-line in our web-page. 

Yellow Pages on Childhood: directory specialized on institutions that work with children on the interamerican region. It is on-line in our web-page.

Green Pages on Childhood: directory specialized on innovative projects executed on the region. It is on-line in our web-page.

 Databases:                      

Objectives:    To provide child protection institutions with an information system to monitor and evaluate child care, and to contribute with information to monitor child rights and for the elaboration of child and adolescents social policy-making. It has national coverage and works with public and private actors. This tool contributes to generating a culture of information-based management. 

Coverage:        Works:

-                     in Uruguay (since 1990), 
-                     in Brazil and Ecuador (since 1992),
-                     in El Salvador (since 1997), 
-                     in Honduras (since 2000). 

Tools:             Computer packages for the generation of the SIPI (SIPI GEN), manuals, forms, training tools, databases with information on children, child-related events, their families, Regional Workshops. 

SIPI on the region: 

The "First Ladies Meeting from Central America, Belize and Dominican Republic for Children and Adolescents - Children and Adolescents with Rights, Countries with Democracy" was held in San Salvador (El Salvador) on August 2000. A declaration was approved where they compromise to promote "the creation of a Childhood and Adolescents Regional System, based on the information systems that the IIN promotes". The Second First Ladies Meeting from Central America, Panama and Dominican Republic was held in Managua on October,  the Third Meeting took place in Guatemala on August 2002 and the Fourth Meeting was held in Panama in August 2003. 

SIPI Millenium Version:  

Great changes on the computer sphere were made during the process of development and insertion of this information systems. The SIPI that was created on Dbase and Clipper during the first years of the ´90s, has now its new version that works with Access Database and was developed on Visual Basic. Within its main characteristics we can highlight: works indifferently locally, on the local net or on remote form; works with mirror database and has the concept of migration data; joins the concept of "traffic light" related to the violation of rights; practically don't use forms to enter data; incorporates data from the child's expedient (if it has them) and its photo; has privacy and security criteria; has a metainformation management system and works with different languages.

LEGAL DATABASE (BADAJ)  

Objectives:       To collect, analyze and update legislation pertaining to children and the family in the region. This information includes:

            International rules
                        Juvenile Codes
                        Family Codes
                        Legislation on Children in Conflict with the Law
                        Legislation on Prevention of Drug Abuse
                        Disability
                        Adoption, among others 

These are full text databases including current laws, bills of law and abolished laws. These databases are related to the documentary database, which contains part of the doctrine generated in the region on the mentioned subjects. 

The actualization of this database is done on coordination with the Legal Program of the IIN.

   

     You can look it up on the IIN webpage: www.iin.oas.org

IIN's WEB PAGE:

 

Since March 2000 PIINFA is in charge of the IIN webpage. It is important to highlight its main objectives: 
-     spread the resolutions and actions of the political bodies of the IIN,
-     spread the activities of the different programs of the IIN,
-     have the  Legal Database (BADAJ) on-line,
-     have a mega newspaper (newspaper of newspapers), where all the information about children
      issues from digital newspapers of the region is added every once a week. 

A series of virtual activities have been developed within the framework of this webpage: 

-          XII Regional Workshop of the Interamerican Network of Information - RIIN, with the participation of all the Information Centers of the Net,

-           IIN Virtual Executive Committee, with the participation of the Executive Committee Members.

SYSTEMATIZATION OF REPORTS TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD 

The South American Regional Office of Save the Children Sweden and the IIN are currently developing, within the PIINFA framework, a joint regional project under the title of "Systematization of Reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child".
 
The purpose of this project is to design, promote and support the implementation of a methodology allowing for the systematization of the information available on the progress achieved in the implementation of the CRC, for the further preparation of the Reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The proposed methodology intends to become the basic input used by governments and the civil society to prepare both reports separately. It operates as an incremental scale, so it can be adjusted according to the needs and particular requirements of each situation.

SITE FOR THE COORDINATION OF ACTIONS IN FAVOR OF CHILDREN 

With the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the IIN developed a site that was installed on the headquarters of the OAS in Washington, which objective is to promote the coordination of actions between specialists on childhood policies from countries of Central America and Dominican Republic, opening coordination spaces for the resolution of specific problems related to children of one country which are located on another one, giving reliable and actualized information about this issues to decision makers. 

The site is of restrained access because of the nature of the issues that it deals with, it also allows to have access to legal tools, news, foras, exchange of information between countries, as well as tracking children. 

VIDEOS OF THE IIN

Within the framework of the actions developed by the IIN related to information and communications, together with the Latin America Network - RAL, the following videos have been developed:   

We wanto to live, which spread the right to life, with a duration of 1 min. 30 sec.,  in Spanish and subtitles in English.

I want to learn, which spread the right to education, with a duration of 1 min. 22 sec., in Spanish and subtitles in English.

I want to play, which spread the right to play, with a duration of 1 min. 15 sec., in Spanish and subtitles in English

I wish, which spreads child rights, with a duration of 1 min 40 sec., in Spanish and with subtitles in English. 

I am, which spreads the right related to Identity, with a duration of 1 minute, in Spanish and with subtitles in English. 

It’s my family, which spreads the right related to a family, with a duration of 1 min. 13 sec., in Spanish and with subtitles in English 

I participate, which spreads the right related to participation, with a duration of 1 min 06 sec.,  in Spanish and with subtitles in English 

I want to be cared for, which spreads the right related to not being maltreated. 

The Inter-American Democratic Charter, which spreads the right related to participation, identity and child rights, with a duration of 49 sec. in Spanish and with subtitles in English. 

These videos are being broadcasting on almost every country of the region and some cable channels oriented to children.