South Africa's National Department of Basic Education published its National Development Plan 2030. The purpose of the strategy is to provide a road map towards the goal of providing universal access to early childhood development by 2030, including two years of quality preschool.

The first day of the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education (14th November 2022 at Tashkent) was dedicated to discussing solutions to ECD challenges. Building on momentum of a recent evidence review of the potential role of systems […]

On the first day of UNESCO’s 2022 World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education, ECDAN and its partners in the Global Initiative to Support Parents (GISP)—UNICEF, WHO, Parenting for Lifelong Health at the University of Oxford, and the End Violence […]

This November, more than one thousand policy makers, researchers, teachers, practitioners, funders, and other early childhood development stakeholders converged in Tashkent, Uzbekistan for the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education. Discussions at the UNESCO-hosted event concentrated on ways […]

The November 2022 issue shares the update on the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education, promotion of ECD through Systems Thinking, partner updates, resources, and more.   Access the newsletter online Subscribe to receive the next newsletter in […]

In 2017, OneSky launched our first program outside of China, in Vietnam – a country where rapid industrialization has created dramatic inequity. Now, just five years later, we have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the government that will improve […]

The June 2022 issue shares the official launch of the GISP initiative and celebrates parenting month. Other updates include partner updates and resources, evidence & research on parenting support and more. Access the newsletter online Subscribe to receive the next […]

Authors: Tanya Smith-Sreen and Carina Omoeva, FHI 360 As recognition of the importance of parenting programs and the implementation of these programs accelerates worldwide, so does the body of evidence. But gaps persist in important areas, including a lack of […]

ECDAN published its second progress report showcasing network achievements from 2020-2021.

August 2021 – A new study in Bangladesh reveals that play-based learning in early childhood achieves a key but elusive aim of preschool education: It ensures that, when starting formal schooling, all children are developmentally equipped to benefit from primary […]

February 2022 – In a time when COVID-19 has transformed the way we live, work, play, and parent, early childhood development (ECD) programs have been asked to reimagine how they deliver services as well. Now more than ever, parents worldwide […]

February 2022 – Genival, a 36-year-old father from the community of Morro dos Prazeres in the city of Rio de Janeiro, pushed the cultural norms of what a father should be and do in Brazil. His daughter Alicia is nine […]

November 2021 – Dana Schmidt, of Echidna Giving, blog post highlights the latest research on the impact of COVID on girls’ education, unearthing a number of potential risks to urgently address. It was originally shared in Echidna Giving’s publication, The […]

December 9, 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the global ECD community to test ways to remotely reach children on a new scale, creating an environment in which new evidence is constantly generated. This webinar, hosted by ECDAN, facilitated an […]

November 2021 – “[We] face a moment of truth for our planet, for our children and for our grandchildren.” This is the statement COP president Alok Sharma read to delegates in the final moments of marathon talks at COP26 in […]