This CD was made possible through the hard work of a number of peopl e: Cassie Landers who drafted descriptions of most of the content in the CD, developed some of the guidance for Parent Educators and co-cre ated the Better Parenting Initiative -- A Video-Based Parent Education Programme. Barbara Kolucki who developed the media guidelines, assis ted in the creation of some of the country materials and introduced the country examples section. Jyldyz Ourbaeva an intern in the Early Ch ildhood Section (UNICEF) who coordinated all parties working on the CD, scanned in the hard copy materials and developed templates for all cou ntry examples. Erika Dunkelberg and Mary Young from the Early Childh ood Development Team (World Bank) -- who contributed information about World Bank nominated and/or supported initiatives in Latin America. Shannon Fitzgerald from the Information Management Unit (UNICEF) who de veloped the information architecture for the toolkit and created all pa ges on the CD. Howard Dale from the Information Management Unit (UN ICEF) who created the flash animation splash screen. Nadia Lemp an i ntern in the Early Childhood Section (UNICEF) who proof-read all pages. Boris De Luca from the Internet Broadcast and Image Section (UNICEF ), who created the CD cover and disk design.

Funded by the World Bank in collaboration with UNICEF.

Presented in English and French.