Impacter l'élaboration de politiques sur la petite enfance | Inter-Country Quality Node on Early Childhood Development

Cornerstone

Développer, mettre en oeuvre et évaluer des politiques et plan d'action dans le cadre d'une vision nationale et d'une stratégies pour la petite enfance, renforcer les investissement dans les actions en faveur de leur développement et de mettre en place un plus grande coordination intersectorielle.
Garantir des ressoucres adéquates en s'assurant que la petite enfance est partie intégrante des politiques de développement nationales des planifications macroéconomiques et de leur processus de budgetisation.
Prendre en charge la petite enfance, dans tous les secteurs cincernés dans le cadre de toutes les politiques et plan d'action nationaux et régionaux.
Investur maintenant dans des politiques et progrmmes qui génèreront des bénéfices immédiats et à long terme pour les individus, les familles, les communautés et la nation.

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...