Getting
to Know Your International Contact Part 3
UNESCO
advocates for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programmers that attend
to health, nutrition, security and learning and which provide for children’s
holistic development UNESCO, (n.d.). It is good to know that others in the
field of Early Childhood are on the same track dealing with issues, and trends.
It organized the first World
Conference on ECCE in September 2010, which culminated in the adoption of a
global action agenda for ECCE called Moscow Framework for Action and Cooperation: Harnessing the
Wealth of Nations. As a follow-up
to the World Conference, UNESCO works in partnership with Member States, partners
and other stakeholders to encourage timely and effective implementation of the
Moscow Framework so that all young children develop their potential to the
fullest UNESCO,
(n.d.). Other
professional are concern about the field of ECE, and have supported conferences
so information is passed to others.
The IIEP Office in Buenos Aires recently launched
a new website in the framework of the SITEAL* initiative: SIPI
(Sistema de Información sobre la Primera Infancia) systematizes
information on actions aiming at fulfilling the rights of early childhood in
Latin America and evaluates the degree of fulfillment. This system provides
updated information on the regulations and policies in 19 countries of the
region and offers statistical indicators. All information can be accessed by
country or by group of rights. There is training, support to Sector planning,
and capacity development strategies. I’m glad to be part of a field which stretches
around the world with concern about children development. The also do research
on : Challenges and emerging trends, Equity, access and quality, cost and
financing, governance, and managenment, and they also highlight: ETICO, HIV,
and AIDS. I do believe that’s going a step above.
References
Thank for highlighting the link to SIPI. It was interesting to go read the indicators for Guatemala, the country my international contact lives. It is always enlightening to compare a country's perspective on their policies and compare it to a citizen working under implementation of policies.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of UNESCO before, but now I am very interested in their work. I think even beyond this class I would still like to try and reach out to members of the international community simply to get a new perspective on issues, trends, what works, challenges.
ReplyDeleteI too sudied UNESCO and find their work to be fascinating. I only hope that one day we will not have to worry about diseases like HIV and AIDS.
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