The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) promotes for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programs that attend to health, nutrition, security and learning which provide for children's complete development. UNESCO works in partnership with member states, partners and other sponsors to inspire suitable and efficient operation of the Moscow framework so that all youths progress their potential to the max. The UNESCO also brought about the Big Push workshop to increase early childhood care and education in Africa (UNESCO, 2013). Africa is of importance for UNESCO and education is vital to the region's progress. UNESCO's Regional Bureau for education in Dakar and 15 field offices serving sub-Saharan Africa work to keep education high on the agenda of governments and development partners (UNESCO, 2013).
The ECCE is having a hard time in Africa. Only a little more than one out of four African child aged between 0-8 get a shot to attend some kind of pre-school activity (UNESCO, 2013). This is sad and I personally believe something needs to be done about this situation quickly. The types of ECCE programs currently being operated in many African settings are neglecting the cultural values and practices of their societies. There is no country that should ever have to suffer this type of neglect. Education is very important not just in our nation but worldwide as well.
Some other vital information I found is the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) office in Buenos Aires recently launched a new website in the framework of the Sistema De Informacion De Tendencias Educativas En America Latina (SITEAL) initiative: Sistema de Informacion sobre la Primera Infancia (SIPI) organizes material on engagements targeting at satisfying the rights of early childhood in Latin America and assesses the notch of success. This system delivers efficient information on the guidelines and policies in 19 countries of the region and proposes statistical signs. All information can be retrieved by country or by group of rights (UNESCO, 2013).
Reference
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (2013). Early childhood care and education. Retrieved from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/early-childhood/
Hi Carlos as always your blogs are very interesting. It is really sad to know that these children are the recipients of such suffering educationally. Is there anything else that the UNESCO can do since they are promoters of ECCE? Just interested.
ReplyDeleteGreat posting, I have to agree that something needs to be done with the neglect of education in Africa. Sad that a child's education is of no value, hopefully UNESCO can make some vital changes in this region of the world.
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