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Directory of Early Childhood Care and Education Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa

This directory describes 241 non-governmental and governmental organizations, based in 40 sub-Saharan African countries, involved in early childhood care, development, and education. A useful information source for those working with and for children, the directory encourages and facilitates communication and information-sharing between individuals and institutions seeking to improve the situation of children worldwide. An analytical section contains two articles: "Childhood in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (Bernard P.Y. Combes) and "Early Childhood Care and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Survey Findings" (Joan Furman Combes). The organizational profiles include the following information: (1) organization name, address, telephone and fax numbers; (2) contact person; (3) date founded; (4) number of salaried and non-salaried staff; (5) current budget; (6) major objective; (7) countries where the organization is active; (8) types of actions undertaken by the organization; (9) cooperation and partnerships with other organizations and different communities; (10) young child, family, and community programs within the organization; (11) target groups; (12) services; and (13) information activities. In addition to alphabetical and geographical indexes, the directory includes 5 additional indexes, by country reference codes; organization acronyms; types of actions; focus of programs; and services. Appendices include a directory of UNESCO National Commissions in Sub-Saharan Africa; United Nations Information Centers in Sub-Saharan Africa; organizations and agencies involved in childhood actions in Sub-Saharan Africa; and a list of approximately 257 selected publications and databases on childhood, family, and community issues. (SM)

Advances in Machine Learning and Cybernetics

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2005, held in Guangzhou, China in August 2005. The 114 revised full papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on agents and distributed artificial intelligence, control, data mining and knowledge discovery, fuzzy information processing, learning and reasoning, machine learning applications, neural networks and statistical learning methods, pattern recognition, vision and image processing.

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