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ISSA member For Our Children Foundation is leading efforts to create a national early childhood strategy in Bulgaria. The foundation has been active in Bulgaria for 25 years now, which makes it one of the oldest civil society organizations. They are…

We are proud to introduce three new member organizations that joined ISSA recently: Kind en Gezin in Belgium, EADAP in Greece and Mala Ulica in Slovenia. Kind en Gezin (Child and Family) is an governmental agency that works actively in the 'Public…

ISSA hosted a ISOTIS meeting with almost 50 experts from around the world. Watch this video where Professor Edward Melhuish, one of the leading members of ISOTIS, explains the focus of the meeting. Oxford Professor Melhuish is an expert in the ECED…

The Early Childhood Workforce Initiative (ECWI), hosted by ISSA and R4D (Results for Development), is a global effort to support practitioners in the field of ECD. Under ECWI, a series of country studies will examine ways to strengthen and scale up…

The Romani Early Years Network Croatia offered a course of Beyash language to its members - primarily to educators and other professionals working with Roma children. The course is taught by Romani assistants, Biljana Horvat and Elvis Kralj,…

The Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation (USSF) and UNICEF present the results of their project “Kindergarten – environment friendly to a child”. Over 2500 pedagogues working with children in war zones were trained. War and crisis, led to the…

We received a blog post written by ISSA member Associazione 21 Luglio about the tragic death of three Roma sisters in Rome, Italy. Associazione 21 Luglio works daily with Roma people in the Italian capital. Carlo Stasolla, president of Associazione…

ISSA's Senior Program Manager, Zorica Trikic delivered a training for trainers in Belgrade, Serbia on May 9th-11th, 2017. The seminar was organized in partnership with the Association for Public Health Serbia, the Institute for Public Health…

This month’s Member in Focus is Eric Bloemkolk, Director of SOFT Tulip Foundation. SOFT Tulip is a small organization with a huge network. This network includes seven major service providers and 25,000 people. They’ve offered their training services…

Since 2004, the World Forum Foundation has been supporting emerging leaders through the Global Leaders for Young Children program. Nearly two hundred emerging leaders from 61 countries have participated so far in the program developing their skills…

The international conference “Key dimensions of the quality development in Early Childhood Education and Care - The Preschool Curriculum Framework” was held in Belgrade on May 23rd. At the opening ceremony, the Minister of Education, science and…

ISSA member the Centre for Education Initiatives in Latvia, offers courses on how to become a great parent. Nowadays parents have become more active, motivated and willing to engage in the children's upbringing not only intuitively, but at a semi-…

Step by Step Foundation for Educational and Cultural Initiatives of Macedonia is organizing an online initiative under a nationwide campaign raising awareness about the importance of equal access to education for Roma children and parents. This…

ISSA member AFLATOUN started their early years programme Aflatot to strengthen the early childhood education in Ukraine. The focus on Early Childhood Education in the Ukraine has been growing and improving over the last few years, thanks to the…

26/04/2017- Parwaan National Centre of Excellence on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) organized an open house event ‘Parwaan Ka Karawaan’ to celebrate the success of its flagship youth social entrepreneurship and early childhood care and…

ISSA Member, Center for Education and Professional Development (CEPD) was represented by Radu Enache, former Managing Director and Administrator of Hewlett Packard Romania, at the Roundtable on Investing in the Early Years: Identifying Synergies and…

ISSA member, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences "Biological and Social Foundations of Inclusion" center, is a research and education center based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. They are organizing a flagship event on early…

ISSA’s Executive Director Liana Ghent spoke at the Global Philanthropy Forum Conference in Washington DC last week. For the first time, this yearly event featured a strand on the child. Ms. Ghent, spoke during the working group, A Healthy Start: The…

Children’s vibrant curiosity about the world around them becomes evident – in their exploring fingers and rapt gaze – even before they can speak. Once the words begin to come, questions and observations tumble out at a tempo that adults find hard to…

06/04/2017 - The Romani Early Years: Status Quo 2017 meeting is a joint event hosted by the Romani Early Years Network, the Forum for Roma Inclusion and the European Public Health Alliance. The meeting will bring together Brussels-based civil…

For Our Children Foundation’s round-table, entitled “From policies to outcomes – ECD services in the spotlight,” highlighted the main principles for the creation of the first national strategy for Early Childhood Development (ECD) in Bulgaria. The…

ISSA member Aflatoun’s Aflatot program published an evidence brief in March, which indicates that Aflatot succeeds in improving the socioemotional outcomes for children. The brief underlined the importance of the program, which is founded on the…

ISSA is proud to welcome five new board members in 2017. In March, Leslie Falconer from the USA, Henriette Heimgaertner from Germany, Elena Misik from the Republic of Macedonia, Jan van Ravens from the Netherlands and Jeroen Aarssen from the…

The International Step by Step Association (ISSA) seeks a skilled communications professional to join the ISSA team in the Child Rights Home, Leiden/The Netherlands as our Communications Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for someone…