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

Ensure the inclusion of parents and family members in the national coordinating mechanisms.
Increase and enhance budget allocations for implementing and monitoring the existing policies
and frameworks.
Strengthen the financial commitments for policy reviews on services for the very young (0–3
years).
5.4 Recommendations for improving standards,
guidelines and training
Establish and/or implement standards for ECCE.
Standardize and regulate teacher qualifications that are meaningful and based on research.
Establish creative formats for the delivery of training for caregivers, such as through radio
programmes to remote neighbourhoods that can help improve the quality of home-based
ECCE programming. There is a need to ensure a monitoring and evaluating component to
such programmes and also an assessing of children’s readiness for learning outside the family.
Strengthening programming is possible if a short but targeted assessment of the impact of such
programmes can be obtained.
Establish culturally relevant, play-based age-appropriate curriculum guidelines for educating the
very young, including safe, indigenous, low-cost resources for play and stimulating very young
children (0–3 years).
Consider virtual education and the enhanced use of ICT, which have been recognized as important
mechanisms for delivering pre- and in-service training programmes.
Involve experienced research and expert practitioners in the in-service and pre-service training,
mentoring and monitoring.
Provide incentives and skills training for ECCE caregivers and teachers, particularly in remote and
rural areas, and for those working in conflict or post-conflict and emergency situations.
Asia-Pacific End of Decade Notes on Education for All
5.5 Recommendations for strengthening
community and family involvement
Allocate financial resources for strengthening family-based or home-based ECCE programmes,
particularly for the very young.
Engage with parents on strengthening resources and materials for mother-tongue instruction.
Invite parent groups into national consultations, especially to define criteria for quality in ECCE.
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