During the conference "Children and the Mediterranean: Health, Culture and Urban Settings", held in Genoa in January 2004, MedChild Foundation introduced the first edition of Charting the Mediterranean Child, which is a methodical analysis of the official statistics useful to understand the situation of children and teenagers in the enlarged Mediterranean area.

This survey was written together with a large research centers network of the Mediterranean countries and of the World Bank, and was updated with a second edition, introduced during the Conference in Dubai.

The map contains the following sections: demography, nutrition, health, education, economics, community.

Operational development of the Project