This Policy Brief details how Education International and the Tanzania Teacher Union managed to train pre-primary education teachers in Tanzania to a Diploma academic qualification without a study leave through the project “Developing Educators, Improving Early Learning in Rural Tanzania”.

Los autores descubren las causas detrás del bajo acceso del desarrollo infantil temprano en los entornos del EeE, baja priorización en todos los sectores, pequeño mapeo sistemático del entorno programático e institucional, y consenso limitado sobre la abogacía estratégica.

Authors Liliana Angélica Ponguta, Kathryn Moore, Divina Varghese, Sascha Hein, Angela Ng, Aseel Fawaz Alzaghoul, Maria Angélica Benavides Camacho, Karishma Sethi, and Majd Al-Soleiti uncover root causes behind low ECD access in EiE settings: low prioritization across sectors, little systematic mapping of the institutional and programmatic landscape, and limited consensus on strategic advocacy.

Les autrices révèlent les causes profondes du faible accès au DPE dans les contextes d’ESU : faible niveau de priorité dans tous les secteurs, faible cartographie systématique du paysage institutionnel et programmatique, et consensus limité sur le plaidoyer stratégique.    

Pour les parents, les éducateurs et éducatrices, les administrateurs et administratrices, les personnes qui travaillent dans le domaine de la protection de l'enfance, les praticiens et praticiennes de la santé et les décideurs politiques.

For parents, educators, administrators, child protection workers, health practitioners, and policymakers. Some resources available in multiple languages, including Afrikaans, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Xhosa.

This edition of Early Childhood Matters is dedicated to examining the many ways that climate change and early childhood intersect. In 34 articles, we hear from leading policymakers, researchers, educators, urban planners and activists from around the world, about how to both develop ecological resilience and improve well-being in the early years.

The Early Childhood Care and Development Responsiveness Local Government Unit Assessment Tool (ERLAT) can be used by local governments to identify ECCD interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, focused on enabling multi-sectoral structures and service delivery. 

Corporal punishment is the most common form of violence against children and most likely to be experienced in early life, causing injury and death to thousands of young children every year, as well as numerous other impacts to physical and mental health, relationships, and lifelong wellbeing.