Articles & Interviews

In 2016, the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize was awarded to ICS-SP in Nairobi, Kenya. The organization’s unique approach focuses on agribusiness and skillful parenting in East Africa.

In a remote mountainous region of Ghana resides a project I’ve been working on for a third of my life – the Akaa Project. Akaa is a remote and rural community located in the Yilo Krobo District in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

The Jacobs Foundation is issuing a call for nominations for the 2019 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. The prize, honors outstanding scientific contributions of scholars aiming at improving the development and living conditions of children and youth.

Following the successful implementation of the Primokiz approach in Switzerland and Germany, the Jacobs Foundation has recently granted the license on the Primokiz approach to ISSA.

The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers aiming at improving the development and living conditions of children and youth.

The Brookings Institution and the Jacobs Foundation partner to implement a real-time scaling lab to learn from, support, and document the adaptation and scaling of education and early childhood development interventions in cocoa growing communities.

Recent conflicts in Syria and Iraq have created the largest refugee crisis since World War II. Too often reporting has overlooked the consequences for young children’s brain development, emotional and cognitive growth, academic and economic trajectory.

Learning in 2030, what will it be like? Acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering and the Jacobs Foundation organize an interdisciplinary #acaLAB workshop to discuss this question with young talents from science, business and media.

This is the motto of an OECD Workshop on policies and initiatives that enhance child well-being held in Paris on January, 16. Key experts and civil society representatives discuss pressing topics during four panels.