1. UNESCO leads the international policy drive for an integrated early childhood care and education system that encompasses both the well-being and holistic development of the child. Our mission is to support early childhood policy development with the aim to build a solid foundation for a child’s lifelong learning.
2. Zambian Early Childhood Development Project-Within this project there is a tool that was developed to test the Zambian preschool children's development=ZAMCAT- combines existing child development measures with newly developed items in order to provide a broad assessment of children of preschool age in the Zambian context.
After careful calibration of the new survey tool through two rounds of piloting, a first cohort of 1,686 children born in 2004 was assessed between July and December 2010. In 2011, successful follow-up occurred with 1,250 of those children, and an additional follow-up is planned for June-August 2012. The early stages of the project demonstrate that comprehensive child assessments are feasible within standard population-based household surveys.
3. KYRGYSTAN-At independence, Kyrgyzstan was one of the poorest ex-Soviet republics with an estimated 32.9 per cent of the population living below the Soviet 'poverty line'.However as of 2001 13% live below the poverty line.In 2001 an estimated 7 per cent of children were malnourished, and approximately 14 per cent of the population had no access to health services.Some diseases of poverty, such as tuberculosis have re-emerged and particularly affect teenagers. These declining levels of child welfare are related to both to pressures on families who may not be able to afford the costs of education or health care, and due to a massive decline in the resources available for these key services. Because of the growing poverty in Kyrgystan children have been forced to work on farms, agricultural labour, domestic jobs, there have even been reports of child prostitution and trafficking.
Early Childhood goal for International Awareness- Un Buen Comienzo (UBC), “A Good Start,” is a collaborative project in Santiago, Chile, to improve early childhood education through teacher professional development. The idea is to improve the quality of educational offerings for four-to-six-year-olds, particularly in the area of language development. This project is also designed to intervene in critical health areas that improve school attendance as well as socioemotional development, and it seeks to involve the children's families in their education.
Wow, I'm looking at #3 and thanking God for my blessings. Learning how children in other countries are afforded the opportunities our children are afforded in the U.S. can be overwhelming but is more motivating in seeking ways to help decrease the abuse young children are facing.
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