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Cornerstone

Assurrer l'accès à au moins deux années de fréquentation de service de qualité de développement de la petite enfance, qu'il soit formel, non formel ou informel, à la base communautaire ou familliale.
Mettre l'accent, chez l'enfant, sur le développement de la prise de conscience de sa propre identité, renforcer ses interaction avec ses paires et avec desadultes, sa confiance dans ses capacités d'apprentissage, sa compétence langagière et ses capacités de pensées critiques et des résolutions de problèmes.
Procurer informations et soutiens au parents et aux dispensateurs de soins, y compris les pères, à travers un large spectre d'activité de soutien aux familles.

WGECD objectives

The rationale for the WGECD is rooted in the recognition that the early years are crucial to the further development of a child. The WG is promoting and supporting the holistic development of young children on the S.S.A region by building bridges between different actors involved in ECD both regional and national level to facilitate a coherent and co-coordinated response to the challenges facing early childhood development around Africa.

The overall goal of the WGECD is: to ensure that the African child survives and thrives and has a good start in life.

Main Objectives are to function as a catalyst and facilitator to:

mobilize continuous political and public, support at regional and national level
motivate enhanced partnership building and networking,
facilitate research, capacity and knowledge building and exchange,
stimulate national policy review, development, implementation and monitoring.

WGECD Ressources

There are several institutions and agencies that have an interest in promoting ECD and sharing information about best practices and knowledge. UNESCO, as the lead UN agency for education, monitors progress towards the Education for All targets, including the fi rst, which is directly applicable to ECD...

ECD Challenges

Child rearing practices have experienced many changes during the last century. Few pockets still remain where traditional child rearing practices are unchanged. Western education, religion, migration and media have contributed to changes in these practices.

ECD Networking in Africa

Most of the work presented at the various forums and at the Ghana meeting has been supported by the ECD Working Group of the Association for Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) in collaboration with other sponsors including UN agencies (UNICEF, UNESCO), several International non-governmental organizations (Save the children, Aga Khan Foundation to name but a few) and the World Bank...

ECD/ECCE: Africa on the move

Early Childhood Development (ECD) is a right recognized in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (articles 6, 18, 29 of the Convention of the Right of the Child, 1989). By definition, ECD is a comprehensive approach to young children’s development that enhances their physical well-being, cognitive and language skills and social and emotional development...