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have the personal, intellectual and interpersonal qualities necessary for leadership in your home country are motivated to develop your career in order to establish a position of leadership in your own country within ten years of your Scholarship have a clear post-Scholarship plan, outlining your career obectives and how you plan to achieve them are committed to networ!ing to find global solutions are committed to networ!ing networ!ing within the Chevening Chevening community, community, via online engagemen engagementt and attending attending Chevening Chevening events in the "# and engaging with the alumni networ! in your home country are able to use your studies and e$perience in the "# to benefit yourself, your country and the "# are capable of successfully underta!ing and completing your proposed course of study in the "#
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%lease complete the following narratives &' Y(") (*' *()+S '( /%ersonal Statement/ is a 0andatory field1: NOTE: The entries should be TEXT ONLY.
Personal Statement:
+escribe in not more than 2,333 words, your reasons for applying for the course you wish to follow and e$plain how it will help you with the wor! you e$pect to do on your return to your home country.
You You should include an outline of your intended profession, your a mbitions and your career plan.
+escribe also, your most outstanding non-academic achievement involving other people where you demonstrated leadership potential you may describe an e$tra curricular4sport4community4professional activity or an assignment1:
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Academic Proposal:
&f you are see!ing to underta!e research please also give details of your 5cademic %roposals in not more than ,333 words in the space provided below%leases note this should be in addition to your personal statement1:
Personal Statement:
+escribe in not more than 2,333 words, your reasons for applying for the course you wish to follow and e$plain how it will help you with the wor! you e$pect to do on your return to your home country.
You should include an outline of your intended profession, your a mbitions and your career plan.
+escribe also, your most outstanding non-academic achievement involving other people where you demonstrated leadership potential you ma y describe an e$tracurricular4sport4community4professional activity or an assignment1:
he principles of my life and the words that & use to motivate myself are 78od helps those who help themselves9 and 7+issatisfaction with !nowledge, possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement9. ven though & have good educational bac!grounds, adequate and brilliant wor! e$periences to live well enough for myself, & wish to learn more and upgrade my !nowledge and e$periences from highly developed countries, to be able to do the !indness to other people, especially the children in the world, who are living under the violence of human right, having no possibility to study li!e others, and who are suffering due to violence, drug abuse, and poverty that & feel so close to them due to my past childhood life. *ith these reasons, in spite of my late age for study, and the responsibilities for my family to bring up my little !ids, & stimulate and encourage myself to study at the &nternational
Essay to British Chevening Scholarship +evelopment and 0anagement postgraduate course at the "niversity of *estminster in the "# for a year than!s to my educational accomplishment, more than 23 years valuable wor! e$periences at many national and international organi;ations, the achievements, many advantages and s!ills as well as the future intentions. & am convinced that this is the right place and course to achieve my ambitions, and from the course, & am mostly e$pected and e$cited to learn all necessary and i mportant !nowledge and s!ills in both development studies and management, which could ma!e me to discover myself as a highly e$perienced and substantially productive e$pert at the +evelopment sector for children. & am a mature and well prepared fellow in accordance with m y following advantageous qualifications. 'either the challenges in my childhood, the unemployment and crisis in my family due to democratic changes in 0ongolia from 2<<3s, nor the inability to pay for my education never stopped me to study hard, and ever discouraged my spirits to become highly educated and capable person. +ue to economical and political transaction shoc!s in 2<<3, and the dysfunctional home as a result of violations of alcoholism and stresses in my family at my childhood, & was near to go to street li!e other street children. =owever, & tried to see these challenges as a leverage to achieve my goals to be successful in the future, so that almost every nights of suffering the drug abuse was e$pensive for me and & had many days to study and wor! hard till dawn. &nstead of falling into despondence, & was ta!ing the energy and momentum from every dawn light, sunrise, the new things that & studies and learnt full night nevertheless & was sleepless, an$ious and tired, which is one of my many advantages to achieve my career goals from the "#. 5lthough & was not top ran!ing student at schools because of so much stress in my little brain, & was the most energetic, independent, consistent, and an ambitious student, who desires to wor! at "' or other humanitarian international organi;ations to help, influence and change the poor life and fortunes of many people. &n order to do that, around my lessons, & did many obs such as waitress, anitor, coo!ie, teacher and volunteer to pay for my study, graduated from my secondary school and university successfully, and started living independently as gaining life and wor! e$periences apart from my parents however & had no penny to live alone in other city. +uring my study at the university, & was the only student who comes hours before to the class, and writes the new words, vocabularies and lessons on the board. ven, the board was too small for me to write everything that & studied and practiced full night. 5fter a lot of efforts, persistence, and sacrifices, luc!ily, & have had a good opportunity to wor! at the "'+% proect and other international organi;ations and proects such as 0inistry of =ealth proect funded by >&C*?, >apan and 8old 0ining company at various sectors including the natural disaster, health, mining and administration. & am proud of myself who is the first to wor! at "' organi;ation from my schools. 5t most of those organi;ations, & was required and supposed to wor! overtime till midnight and dawn, without rests at wee!ends, annual vacations and e$tra payment, and even the required ta$es for my better future. =owever, the !nowledge and e$periences such as the personal, intellectual, interpersonal qualities for leadership, proect management and implementation s!ills, multinational communication and team player s!ills and many other capacities that & have learnt and gained from those organi;ations are very precious and invaluable in order to achieve my eagerness for !nowledge from abroad, and an$iety for contribution to the humanitarian activities and assistances to the children in the future. (ne of the unforgettable and lifetime e$periences, s!ills and abilities that & learnt from above organi;ations, especially "'+% proect are the accountability for assigned obs, managerial s!ills on organi;ing various !inds of tas!s, meetings, conferences, and seminars, communication s!ills with multinational people with different personality types, and organi;ational and troubleshooting s!ills.
Essay to British Chevening Scholarship Several time & was nominated and encouraged to managerial positions at my previous organi;ations, but & preferred the administration and assistant obs to learn more about the finance, accountings, documentations, computer and other technical literacy, communications, arrangements, coordination, and management while brightening and developing my characters, viewpoints and other capabilities, which could be the benefits to successfully and effectively study in the "#, and contribute to the development of my home country. *ith reference to my future career intentions and concerns, there are numerous challenges and problems with children@s right in 0ongolia. here are no appropriate and effective laws and acts to properly and significantly protect the children and their right, no safe, secure places and environment around their homes, !indergartens and schools, no safe and qualified food and toys, no suitable and safe places for children to develop their s!ills, abilities such as playgrounds, sport comple$es and entertainment centers. ven there are no guarantees for children to be healthy in 0ongolia, where the smo!e, dust and air pollution are getting worse year by year. &n some other countries, children are dying due to starvation, war attac!s, and poverty. herefore, after all, & believe that the 0asters of &nternational +evelopment and 0anagement course in the "# will not only strengthen my understanding and !nowledge of development, but also will sharpen my leadership and managerial s!ills, which will increase my career prospects in the development sector especially toward the children more effectively and significantly. 232A words1
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Academic Proposal:
&f you are see!ing to underta!e research please also give details of your 5cademic %roposals in not more than ,333 words in the space provided below%leases note this should be in addition to your personal statement1:
*hile studying the main functional areas of international development and management, blending both the theoretical and practical elements at 0aster of &nternational +evelopment and 0anagement course at the "niversity of *estminster for a year, & am needed to complete a proect or a dissertation, which will give me an opportunity to underta!e a serious and specific research dissertation on the area of international development and management pertaining to the violation of child@s right and its development and solutions for my further career plans and contribution to the development of Children@s right, which is the challenge not onl y in my country but also around the world. he children and our future generations are the invaluable treasures and riches for every country. hey should be loved, cared, protected and well educated for the better development of countries and the safe world. he damage to children@s health and education is often irreversible and the result is fewer healthy, educated and s!illed wor!ers. he countries with wea! human capital and wea! development for children are countries that are less competitive in the globali;ation. %rotecting the Bulnerable is covered in the 0illennium +eclaration. 5ccording to the "' Convention on the )ights of the Child, all children below the age of 2 have a right to be protected against all forms of discrimination and punishment. "nfortunately, in many countries, especially in 0ongolia, the children@s rights and interests are violated and discriminated almost everywhere and everyday in spite of many laws and legislations to protect them as well as the "' Convention of the rights of the children, which was ratified in 2<<3 in 0ongolia-the year democratic transitions began to free mar!et economy. Since the social and economic transformations initiated in the 2<<3s in 0ongolia, the poverty and unemployment, unequal economic and social opportunities between poor and non-poor families and between urban and rural areas, and disruptions in the social fabric caused by transition shoc!s are cumulatively leading to violations of child rights and the physical and ps ychological traumati;ation of children. Decause of the 0ongolian 8overnment adustment policies, the structural unemployment and reductions in health, education, social services and infrastructure investment had left 0ongolia with a large and persistent poverty problems and a mar!ed decline in !ey social development indicators. he collapse of day-care, child-care and school services made gainful employment for many mothers
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impossible, and place severe constraints on family life. he incidence of poverty and unemployment, virtually non-e$isting prior to 2<<3 have lead up hundreds of une$pected and un!nown phenomenon such as the orphans, abandoned children, street children, drop out of schools, underground sewers, child labors, traffic!ing of women and children, crime and se$ual e$ploitation against children and many others, which are still e$isting with less improvements during the last two decades. *hile poverty deprives children of opportunity to receive adequate food, education and health services, malnutrition impedes their physical and mental growth. he child labor remains a serious issue in 0ongolia, negatively impacting on child health, education and impairing their opportunities for normal growth and development. =erding and artisanal mining are common form of child labor, while wor!ing in informal mar!ets, at construction sites and manufacturing enterprises with poor wor! conditions ma!e up common forms of child labor in urban areas. he persistent e$ploitation of children in slave-li!e and bonded conditions, ha;ardous and arduous wor!, prostitution, pornography and other unspea!able situations are getting worse. 5ccording to the latest 'ational Statistics, the 22.EF or G2.HH3 of the children between the ages of E-2G are necessarily required to wor! under many !inds of circumstances and reasons. 5ppro$imately 22.A33 of them are doing the legislatively prohibited labors with overtimes in dangerous conditions. 5s a result of poor living conditions, drug abuse, unemployment and divorce, t he children are mostly suffered. Corporal punishment is prohibited in schools, but according to the )esearch on Biolence against Children at Schools and #indergarten nvironment confirms that 3 percent of older !indergarten children, GG.E percent of students in primary schools and <.6 percent of students in secondary schools have been subected to violence. Children living on the street, who run away from dysfunctional homes as a result of violations alcoholism and poverty or who were abandoned and orphan are the consequences of the social and economical transition shoc!s. Children with disabilities who aged 3 to 26 years are in most vulnerable conditions. he !ey causes are diseases and accidents including riding horses without protective equipment, herding during natural disasters, traffic accidents and obstetric complications during delivery and which have been increased year by year. 'ot all children have access to rehabilitative care services, and of the total number of the children with disabilities over 2333 had no access to service. he traffic!ing of women and children is a new phenomenon that emerged during the transition period, and still has no proper actions to protect them. 5t the today@s circumstances, children@s rights are started to be violated when they are in their mothers@ womb, and there are no guarantees those mothers to have healthy babies because of the air pollutions and dust throughout four seasons, poverty, unemployment, uncertificated food and nutrition supply, bureaucracies either at maternity and children@s hospitals, unsafe environment and many other factors, which pose a maor challenge not only for the 8overnment but also all development partners towards achieving the 0illennium +evelopment 8oals at sub-national level. &n addition to that, the
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medical ethics, communication and professional s!ills of pediatricians for health services are not satisfactory. +ue to shortages of !indergartens and schools, thousands of children are having no rights and possibilities to be educated. here is statistics that more than A3F of the total 33 thousand children between ages -E are can@t be participated to the !indergartens, pre-schools and most of them are loc!ed in their home full day in an unsafe environment. Decause many children are loc!ed at their home due to lac! of !indergartens, hundreds of them are affected and suffered into fire incidents, and many of them are died every year. 'evertheless some are participated to the !indergartens, the number of children in one classroom is overloaded, and there are poor training conditions as a result of no adequate teachers and training materials. &n other words, within the last two decades since the economic and social transactions in 2<<3, everything from past for children such as the care, high attentions for good educations, various sport and entertainment services, clubs as well the other facilities li!e the children@s playland, green areas, and playgrounds near buildings, children@s library and cafI were all destroyed and robbed. here are no guarantee for the children to be healthy and alive due to disordered constructions everywhere and the terrified traffics. Everybody acclaims to say ‘YES” to children, but indeed it is like “Say well or be still” in Mongolia.
'evertheless, we must be than!ful to those international humanitarian organi;ations and funds such as the Save the Children "#, "'&CJ, Christina 'oble Children@s Joundation, *orld Bision, 5sian Joundation, and many other '8(s who have been wor!ing and helping to 0ongolian children@s development and wellbeing with particular focus on the country@s most vulnerable and disadvantaged children since early <3s. Jor e$ample, Save the Children "# started its generous humanitarian activities since 2<
apan and =ong #ong. Save the Children@s role in introducing and training social wor! as a new profession in the country and in building up the very foundations for its development to the current level is invaluable and
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unforgettable. hese initial e$posures not only enhanced our practical e$periences but also contributed to building public awareness a bout this newly emerging profession. "nfortunately, as of today, because of the irresponsibility of the government policies and decisions, insensibility of every business entities, organi;ations, parents and adults, the children@s rights are in a tragedy not only in 0ongolia, but also around the world, especially in the rural areas where there are artisanal mining, and the poor countries where there are war attac!. +espite the rapid economic growth, poverty has remained virtually unchanged over the last two decades, which may even be further aggravated by the current global economic crisis unless measures are ta!en to protect the most vulnerable. he children from poor families have less chance of accessing adequate education and nutrition, particularly in rural areas and urban peri-urban ger areas. hey survive in difficult living conditions characteri;ed by poor hygiene and sanitation, domestic violence and low income despite of the economic increase. & thin! that if children are not cared, loved, educated, protected, and if they are violated, and discriminated, then there should be no tal! about the public safety, independence of the country and nice future. herefore, according to the above circumstances, my future career intentions as well as for my children@s future, & have decided to fully dedicate myself and rest of my life for the development of children@s issues through the &nternational +evelopment Studies from highly developed countries. & e$pect the future, where we loo! forward to a world which respects and values each child, which listens to children and learns, and where all children have hope and opportunity. he platforms of 0ongolian 'ew 8overnment for Changes, and the actions plans of 'ational Children@s Center for the coming years, there are lots of wor!s to eliminate the developmental damages to children as a result of violation of their rights, which would be definitely included in my study and research plan. Jor e$ample, the analysis and monitoring on the legal documents to protect children@s right, monitoring and evaluation for the all proects, operations and activities carried out by national and international organi;ations at this sector for children@s rights and wellbeing are one of the priorities. he support to community organi;ations, enhancing strong, effective and efficient 8overnment and '8( partnership and improving transparency and accountability are !ey components in instilling democratic values and participation for the development of children@s rights. he other !ey challenges to develop the violation of children@s rights are, to improve coverage and quality of preschool education, to reduce school drop-out rates in rural areas through better targeting of social programmes, to improve the physical infrastructure of school and dormitories, to upgrade teaching quality, especially in rural areas, to reduce school costs for poor families, to increase support for non-formal education programmes for children who have dropped out of schools or were never enrolled school etc. 5mong the remaining !ey challenges in achieving the 0+8s are high levels of stunting for children under five, poor access to safe water and sanitation, and the emerging problem of child protection. he implementation of the above tas!s, plans and operations would require not a little money, nevertheless if not, the consequences and harmfulness are ineffable. &t is said li!e if you thin! the cost of education is high, consider the cost of ignorance. Jinally, for my study and career goals and plans, the course contents of 0aster of &nternational +evelopment and 0anagement, which includes data management, development theory and practice, human resource strategies for the international manager, international development finance, managing development proects, research methods as well as the other optional related modules will enable me
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to professionally and intentionally study and do research on the above core topics to contribute to the development of children@s right violation not only in 0ongolia, but also other poor countries. he concept of international development itself is actually new to 0ongolia, and there are very few e$perts or specialists at this sector and for the children@s issues. $posure to and learning from various countries@ e$periences in developing social wor!s for children will be definitely an eye-opening effect, helping me to grasp the very real need to develop our own social wor!s towards children, relevant and responsive in the unique conte$t of 0ongolia.
