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Building a mentoring culture in early childhood education system in Uzbekistan

July 21, 2026
ISSA Program Director Mihaela Ionescu, PhD, shares about her recent visit to Uzbekistan supporting UNICEF and the Ministry of Preschool and School Education (MOPSE) in developing and delivering the first national mentoring programme for preschool education.

Call for Chapters: Challenges Associated with Cross-Cultural and At-Risk Student Engagement

January 8, 2016
The editors are seeking papers describing teacher's daily work and the academic and social successes achieved with their students in challenging teaching and learning environments. "We are interested in papers that reflect practical strategies…

ISSA welcomes a new member

December 16, 2015
ISSA is happy to announce its newest member NGO KHAM DELCHEVO from Macedonia. NGO KHAM is a civic association which assists by informing, educating and influencing policies and the provision of services that help Roma people and other marginalized…

Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins, Prague, 3-6 November

November 20, 2015
“Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins” was the title of the event co-hosted by ISSA and the Open Society Foundations in partnership with the National Academy of Sciences’ Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally, in Prague,…

ISSA and UNICEF together training home visitors

November 19, 2015
CEE/CIS Regional Training of Master Trainers - Training Home Visitors to Support Families for Child Health, Development and Protection ISSA is pleased to report that in partnership with UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS, two parallel, five-day “…

INTESYS – Together: Supporting vulnerable children through integrated early childhood services

November 19, 2015
In partnership with Universal Education Foundation (the Netherlands), Compagnia di San Paolo (Italy), Emanuela Zancan Foundation (Italy), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal), Aga Khan Foundation (Portugal), VBJK (Belgium) and Pedagogical…

New global initiative focuses on ther Early Childhood Workfoce

November 18, 2015
ISSA and the Results for Development Institute are happy announce this new global initiative focusing on the Early Childhood workforce. Strengthening the skills, preparation, training, and employment conditions of those who work with young children…

ISSA joins call for all children to be counted

November 18, 2015
ALL CHILDREN COUNT BUT NOT ALL CHILDREN ARE COUNTED An open letter to the UN Statistical Commission and Inter‐Agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators 53 signatory organisations as of 20 October 2015 The signatories of this document welcome…

ISSA joins Global Coalition Against Child Poverty

November 12, 2015
ISSA is proud to have become a member of the Global Coalition Against Child Poverty joining together with an array of likeminded organzations to keep this issue within the global agenda and the national development policies and priorities of many…

ISSA signs call for protection of children’s rights in EU’s migration policy

October 30, 2015
In a joint statement to European Heads of State, ISSA joins 58 leading organisations in the fields of human rights, child rights, health and social inclusion, including UNICEF, OHCHR to remind them that it is their responsibility and duty to respect…

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

October 16, 2015
October 17th marks International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the central theme for 2015 is coming together to end poverty and discrimination. The United Nations are using this opportunity to highlight the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable…

ISSA salutes the world's teachers

October 5, 2015
On this international day celebrating the work of the world’s teachers, ISSA restates its commitment to strengthening early childhood development by launching a new initiative aimed at empowering the workforce in early years services. More details…

Example of Targets in the Sustainable Development Goals directly related to early childhood development

October 1, 2015
From Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day (target 1.1) By 2030, reduce by at least half the…

ISSA shares thoughts on the refugee crisis

September 16, 2015
ISSA believes that diversity is a key feature of Europe. As a union of nations founded on the values of respect for human rights and dignity, liberty, equality and democracy the European goal should be to create a society which embraces cultural,…

ISSA's Overview of 2014

September 7, 2015
Have a flip through ISSA's 2014 achievements

Apply for REYN Training. Building a Roma Living Library 14-15 September, 2015 - Milan, Italy

August 5, 2015
We are happy to announce that on September 14th and 15th, 2015 we are organizing a two day training on “Building a Roma Living Library” in Milan, Italy, as part of our capacity building program in cooperation with an ISSA member, ABCitta. After…

ISSA has two new members

August 5, 2015
Over the last few weeks ISSA has added two new members to our burgeoning network which widens our influence across the globe. We now have our our first member from Pakistan, these two new members increase our membership to over 60 organisations. We…

Another 3 new members for our ever-expanding network

April 14, 2015
Spring has arrived and brings 3 new members for our network. Our newest full member is Learning for Well-being Foundation from Amsterdam. UEF is at the origin of Learning for Well-Being approach that describes the journey of learning to realize…

Second Language Training with REYN

April 3, 2015
Creating opportunities for success: Multilingual learning environments for Romani children. Second Language training with REYN June 8th – June 10th 2015 Leiden, the Netherlands “If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head…

Counting on Quality: Measuring and Improving Quality in Early Childhood Environments

March 31, 2015
Measuring and Improving Quality in Early Childhood Environments A group of experts on early childhood supported by ISSA, UNICEF, UNESCO and the Bernard van Leer Foundation, in partnership with the World Bank and the Brookings Institution met in…

ISSA welcomes five new members

March 19, 2015
ISSA is delighted to welcome five new members to our ever expanding learning community. Our newest members come from Italy, France, Luxembourg and Russia. ABCittà Social Cooperative are based in Milan, Italy. Formed by a group of professionals with…

Free online course on resilience in children

February 10, 2015
ISSA members may be interested in this free of charge online study opportunity related to resilience in children offered on Coursera. Many professionals concerned with child resilience from around the world participated in 2014 (from more than 175…

DECET conference: No Quality without Equality

February 3, 2015
The call for papers for the international DECET conference in collaboration with Newman University has been released. The conference will take place in Birmingham, UK, from Wednesday, 3rd to Friday 5th June, 2015. The conference theme addresses the…

Roundtable on quality early learning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

November 27, 2014
Together with the Bernard van Leer Foundation and JES Rijnland, ISSA hosted a roundtable within the Children’s Rights Summit organized by UNICEF on November 20, 2014 in Leiden. Within the events organized by UNICEF, Leiden City Hall, Leiden…

ISSA welcomes two new members

November 6, 2014
Two more members – an organisation from Australia and an international organisation – have just joined the network, contributing to expanding ISSA’s presence in Europe and worldwide. After the incorporation of five new members a few months ago,…