News

The Regional Seminar on Early Childhood Policy Review: “Sharing and Learning from the Policy Review Process”, 11-13 July, 2007

As a part of a joint project on ECCE policy review, UNESCO and UNICEF organized a regional seminar on early childhood policy review “Sharing and Learning from the Policy Review Process” on 11-13 July, 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Regional Seminar, the second meeting for those participating countries, was also joined by observers representing DPR Korea, Papua New Guinea, as well as regional partners such as Plan International, Hong Kong University, and Regional Training and Resource Centre for ECCE Asia. The participating countries shared their review experience to date in terms of the technical “process” as well as “progress” in terms of key findings and common issues in the EC field in the region. They also learned how to translate these key findings into policy recommendations. Read more

Regional Workshop on ECCE Policy Review

UNESCO and UNICEF organized a Regional Training Workshop on Early Childhood Policy Review from 6 to 8 February 2007, in Bangkok. The workshop brought together representatives from nine countries in the region to document, share good practices, and agree on a regional and national policy review guidelines on early childhood care and education (ECCE). Read more

Training of Trainers in Laos
The Department of Non-Formal Education of the Ministry of Education in Lao PDR together with UNESCO Bangkok office,  organized a National Training Seminar for Regional Level ECCE Trainers to contribute to the provision of early childhood care and education programs of better quality in Lao PDR. Read more
 
New publication: The ECCE resource briefs are being published. The final version is currently only in hardcopy but an online version will be avaliable shortly. See advocacy briefs for more information.

Content

• About ECCE - Gives a brief introduction to Early Childhood Care and Education.
• Activities - Describes APPEAL's ECCE activities in the region.
• Advocacy material - We have developed a set of short easy-understandable advocacy letters dealing with diffferent topics in ECCE including, inclusion, pedagogy, curriculum, nutrition, international treaties, brain development and economic benefits of ECCE.
• Country specific information - This section aims to give country specific information about the status quo of ECCE in the Asia Pacific region, with focus on policies. Currently 33 countries are covered.
• Innovative practices - Examples of good practices implemented in the Asia and Pacific region.
• Resources - Extensive page with various resources such as electronical reports, advocacy material, Education For All national action plans, UNESCO policy briefs and UNESCO policy series as well as external links.