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On July 23, 2024, early childhood development experts from across Africa, the Arab regions, and beyond convened for a pivotal Cross-Regional Webinar. The event, organized by the Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN) and the Arab Network for Early Childhood Development (ANECD) under the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative (ECWI), aimed to address the pressing challenges facing the professionalization of the early learning workforce.
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Today, the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative (ECWI) publishes a brief entitled Supporting the Workforce: Parenting Programs Adapt to COVID-19.
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The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has upended families’ lives, with school closures, social distancing, and stay-at-home measures limiting their access to support systems, while adding to health concerns and economic uncertainties. As families face these varied stressors, it is even more important that parenting programs, which seek to promote positive and responsive caregiving, improve health and nutrition, and enhance social and child protection, continue to operate.
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The Home Visiting Workforce Needs Assessment Tool aims to help Ministries and government agencies reflect on the ways in which they can support personnel delivering home visiting programs across sectors for pregnant mothers and caregivers with children under 3. Drawing inspiration from the UNICEF Pre-Primary Diagnostic and Planning Tool, this tool is intended for countries with home visiting programs at either the sub-national or national levels.
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The Early Childhood Workforce Initiative is launching the Home Visiting Workforce Needs Assessment Tool in six languages. The Tool was recently updated and translated into Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish after two pilots in Kenya and Bulgaria in 2019.
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January 2020 has kicked-off a new phase of the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative, launched by ISSA and R4D in 2016 to support those who work with children ages 0 to 8 and their families. The Initiative will continue to enhance the knowledge base by developing several landscape analyses and begin work to facilitate the use of the Initative's assessment Tool.
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The Early Childhood Workforce Initiative’s Country Briefs illustrate inspiring responses to challenges faced by the early childhood workforce.
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The Early Childhood Workforce Initiative seeks a consultant for the development of a needs assessment tool.
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Today, the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative launches an insightful report, Supporting the Early childhood Workforce at Scale: Preschool Education in Ukraine. It is released at a critical moment for early childhood services in Ukraine. As recently, policymakers pushed for improving the quality of preschool education and encouraging inclusion in services.
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This report, the second in the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative's Landscape Analysis Series, addresses the theme of competences and standards. An extensive review of published and grey literature yielded six findings related to the ways in which countries have used competences and standards to support early childhood systems.
