Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: National/Federal Level

Exploring through various national organizations in my country Nigeria for this week, I found three organizations that were of interest based on their goal as a community.

Child Rights Awareness Creation organization.
 CRACO is a community of practice formed based on the passion to render humanitarian services. The organization focuses majorly on creating awareness on children’s rights and promoting same (Child Rights Awareness Campaign organization, 2011).This they achieve through publications, public lectures, songs and film production, and through the media. They work with schools with the aim of impacting human right education on students as well as training teachers to teach same, and they also undertake legal case work on behalf of children, in collaboration with relevant Government agencies (Child Rights Awareness Campaign organization, 2011).  They are interested in the protection of the rights and welfare of women, especially widows who undergo a lot of oppression in our society because they believe Children’s rights and welfare cannot be truly guaranteed if their mothers’ rights and welfare are not guaranteed (Child Rights Awareness Creation organization, 2011).
There are no job openings but membership is open to interested participants. But since I have the knowledge and skill as an early childhood professional, I believe I can contribute in creating public awareness through public lectures, education/ training of teachers and also through publications.

The second community is the Defense for Children International(DCI) is an independent non-governmental 
organization set up to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action specially directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child.(Defense for children, nd).They Lobby with governments and the United Nations, provide training or education  and research on  child rights, undertake legal casework on behalf of children, and work in partnership with organizations, media,  press and also directly with children in Nigeria .(Defense for children, nd)

There are no job openings but based on their area of expertise which includes Children and the media,  Education and cultural rights, Health and welfare,  cases of violations, Justice, Sexual exploitation and abuse. I believe as a professional in the early childhood, and my various researches on international organizations and how they can support children rights; I believe I can contribute as an advocate and also be directly involved through research, education and training for promoting children’s right to education, healthy, stable and violent/abuse free life

The third is the National Coalition on Children's Rights (NCCR). They work to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Nigeria. They achieve their advocacy goal through lobbying with the Government and the United Nations; they perform more of implementation role (National Coalition on Children's Rights, nd).
There are no job openings because I could not locate their official website on the internet. But based on their mission of implementing conventions, I believe this requires planning. As an early childhood professional with specialization in Management, Planning and Administration, I believe I can contribute to the organization through planning organization of conventions that seeks to address children’s rights in Nigeria.

References

Child Rights Awareness Creation organization, (2011). Retrieved  from http://cracong.org/index.html
Defense for Children International, (nd) Retrieved November, 22 from Children Rights International Network, (2013). http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=1150
 National Coalition on Children's Rights,(nd). Retrieved November, 22 from Children Rights International Network, (2013). http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=1150