EFA Goal 1: Early childhood care and education; Asia ... - Unicef

List of Boxes
Box 1: School readiness reaches out to remote areas in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Box 2: Missing girls in India: Gender inequities begin even before birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Box 3: The DBNA/UNESCO Multilingual Education Project in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Box 4: Prenatal care to ensure quality ECCD: An example in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Box 5: Teaching the value of pre-school education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Box 6: Possible questions on quality to address in national consultations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Box 7: Inclusion in an ethnolinguistic minority community in Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Box 8: Mother Circles in Myanmar: Inclusion in low-income families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
List of Figures
Figure 1: ECCE experience and survival rate to the last grade of primary education in selected
countries, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Figure 2: Regional averages of gross enrolment ratios in pre-primary education 2000, 2005
and 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Figure 3: Gross enrolment ratios in pre-primary education: 1990, 2000 and 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Figure 4: Percentage of 3- and 4-year-olds attending early learning programmes, by wealth in
selected countries, 2005–2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Figure 5: Proportion of children aged 36–59 months in Mongolia attending ECCE, by wealth
quintile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 6: Gender parity index for the gross enrolment ratios in pre-primary education, 2000 and
2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 7: Percentage of trained teachers in ECCE in Pakistan, 2005–2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 8: Pre-school assessment: Comparison between mother tongue-based education and
non-mother tongue-based education students in Viet Nam, 2010 (second cohort of
students) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 9: Under-5 mortality rate, global and regional averages, 1990–2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Figure 10: Under-5 mortality rate and regional weighted average, by mother’s education, 2004-2009 . 20
Figure 11: Percentage of children younger than 5 years who are stunted, by region, 2009 . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 12: Percentage of children 0–59 months old who are underweight, by household wealth
quintile, 2003-2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 13: Number of pupils per teacher in pre-primary education, 2000 and 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Figure 14: Provincial ECCE net enrolment rate of 3- to 6-year-olds in Indonesia, 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
List of Tables
Table 1: Distribution of children enrolled in ECCE centres, by geographical region and type of
programme in Nepal, 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Table 2: Percentage of Dalit and Janajati children with access to ECCE services in Nepal, by sex,
2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Table 3: Issues and challenges in capacity building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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