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4.2 Early Childhood Development, Care and Pre-primary Education: Cornerstone for achieving SDGs | Workshop Partner |
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Working Group discussing Goal 4.2 “By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education”
Child care and early education form the building blocks of early childhood development. A critical step to achieving SDGs is giving all children access to early childhood development, care and pre-primary education. Care and Education require strategies that are holistic and give significance to welfare, protection, safety, nutrition, hygiene, access as well as preschool experience. This calls for putting a range of enabling factors in place. Primarily, it has to reach out to every child, its family and the community.
“Empirical evidence points to the value of providing pre-school experience to children not only for improving their readiness for schooling but also as part of meeting their basic growth and development needs. Providing early childhood care and education is the first goal of the Dakar Framework for Action.” It is this vision that requires every child is provided with interaction, communication and stimulation. Experiences from ESD tell us that educational initiatives content related to environment, socio-cultural and economic questions can indeed foster change.
The Working Group Sessions deliberated upon these key aspects:
- The integration of early childhood care and early education to achieve the goal 4.2 of SDG#4.
- Appropriate and necessary coordination among the many sectors working for early childhood development, care and pre-primary education.
- Examining the content and pedagogy of Early Education from ESD experiences.
- Learning about contexts that determine regional/country level initiatives.
- Resource allocation for child care and early education.
- Capacity building for child care and early education.
CEE Focal Point: Rajeswari Namagiri and Sukhprit Kaur
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Workshop Sessions
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11/1/2016 (Monday) |
12/1/2016 (Tuesday) |
13/1/2016 (Wednesday) |
08:00-09:00 |
Registration |
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09:30-10:45 |
Inaugural Plenary |
Plenary 2 |
Session V: Child Care and Early Education: Recommendations to Stakeholders Mamata Pandya, Education Ian Humphreys, Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful Ila Vakharia, Independent Radhika Suri, Director, Environment Education, WWF Pramod Kumar Gupta, Inclusive Education Specialist, Sightsavers, Sukhprit Kaur, CEE Bengaluru Rajeshwari N. Gorana, CEE
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10:45-11:15 |
Tea Break |
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11:15-13:15 |
Plenary 1 |
Session III:
Sonal Zaveri, Secretary, Community of Evaluators K.Vaijayanti, Head--Research and Evaluation at Akshara Foundation Renu Seth, Second Chance Ian Humphreys, Chief Executive of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful Dr Rajalakshmi Sriram Department of Human Development and Family Studies Savitri Ray, National Coordinator, Creches and Child Care Services Dr Rachana Bhangaokar |
Session VI: Reflections and recommendations Merging with Goal 4.1 and 4.3. Form a small team to refine the input from these groups.
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13:15-14:30 |
Lunch Break |
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14:30-16:00 |
Inauguration of Goal 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 Chair: Charles Hopkins
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Session IV:
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Closing Plenary: The Way Forward
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16:00-16:30 |
Tea Break |
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16:30-17:30 |
Session II: |
Plenary 3 |
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