Policy Conference on ECCED 2022
Message from the Technical Working Group Leadership
As participants in this Conference, we are making history because we are handling one of the biggest challenges facing the early childhood care ecosystem: insufficient policies and regulations that would enable the early childhood care, education and development ecosystem to thrive
Policy and Regulation Reforms Technical Working Group (PRR-TWG)
The conference was organized by the National Policy Conference on ECCED, Policy and Regulatory Reforms- Technical Working Group (PRR-TWG). The PRR-TWG brings together a growing number of organizations under the Collaborative Action for Childcare (CAC) initiative which is established to promote learning networks and co-design initiatives that accelerate systemic changes to the sector thereby benefiting millions of children, caregivers and frontline workers.
Abstracts
- Nurturing care for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities: Opportunities, policy gaps, and recommendations
- Users’ perceptions and factors that inform the choice of childcare services utilization: The Nairobi Early Childcare in Slums (NECS)
- Capacity building of frontline workers for integrated Early Childhood Development interventions: A case of Siaya County
- Analysis of the Kenyan budget 2021.2022: Focus on the care economy spending
Purpose of the Conference
The National Policy Conference on ECCED offers an opportunity of its kind for stakeholders to specifically share ideas, knowledge, and understanding on the status of policy and regulatory reform at the county and national level.
Participants will discuss a roadmap for further collaborative action that not only puts the government in the lead but ensures other actors work together to accelerate quality, affordable early childhood care and education in Kenya.
Participants
The Policy Conference was well attended by delegates from all over the country including;
National Government
The County Governments of
Mombasa, Nairobi, Kisumu, Nakuru, Tharakanithi, Uasin Gishu, Nyandarua, Kwale, Busia, Wajir, West Pokot, Isiolo, Marsabit, Mandera, Tana River, Turkana, Garissa, Samburu, Machakos, Embu, Siaya, Lamu, Bungoma, Kakamega, Kajiado, Makueni, Kirinyaga, Kiambu, Meru, Vihiga and Kitui County.
First County Ladies of
Kajiado, Marsabit, Siaya, Kisumu, Garissa, Homabay, Nyandarua, Laikipia, Makueni and Tharaka Nithi County
Development Partners
World Bank and Oxfam
Civil Society Organisations
Aga khan University-Institute for Human Development, PATH, Action Foundation, Faraja Foundation, Child Fund, Catholic Relief Services, Terre Des Hommes, Kidogo, TheirWorld, The Cradle, Uthabiti Africa, Plan International , Usikimye, Pastrolist Girls Initiative, Dhobi Women Network, Association of Women in Agriculture (AWAK), Madarassa Early Childhood Program, Organization of African Youth, Kisumu Medical Education Trust, Girl Concern, ECD Network for Kenya, Dignitas, Collaborative Centre for Gender and Development, Acorn Special Tutorials, Community Initiatives Agenda, African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), African Early Childhood Network (AfCEN), PAWA Initiative and Youth Alive.
Institutions in the ECD space
Kenya Prisons, National Council for children’s Services, NCAJ Special Taskforce on Children matters, Teachers Service Commission, Council of Governors, Inter-Religious Council, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Tangaza University.
Communique from the National Policy Conference on ECCED
We the delegates and the ECCED Policy and Regulatory Reforms Technical Working Group of the inaugural National Early Childhood Care, Education and Development (ECCED) Policy Conference are making a Call to Action as follows.
Partners
