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We are pleased to share with you the documentation report of the recently-concluded Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Early Childhood Development (virtual edition), with the theme on "Young Children in Crisis: Addressing the impact of COVID-19, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation."
Click here for a copy of the full documentation report.
Please use this link (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RHsbf7mo2MaDyDoLznS-TvYUODSOYO-W?usp=sharing) to access the Conference-related resources, including all presentation materials and access to the video documentation of all presenters, speakers, and panel discussions.
Feel free to access, use, and share these resources to your respective networks and communities, so we broaden the constituencies supporting the transformative potential of ECD as a building block for resilience and sustainable human development.
P2P Advocacy Series #2
If you are concerned with the development of your child, talk to a health assistant. In Bhutan, health assistants (Has) use the Bhutan Child Development Screening Tool (BCDST) for the periodic screening of children from 2½ to 60 months covering developmental domains, such as physical development, communication/language, problem solving/cognition, and personal social development.
The screening tool is part of the HA’s normal immunization and growth monitoring visits and provides information whether or not the child exhibits certain skills or behaviours within four areas of developmental domain based on the responses of parents or caregivers. The screening information becomes useful in developing a child-specific plan for caregivers in addition to other support or referrals necessary.
For example, if the screening indicates a delay in the physical development of a baby under six months, the HA might recommend caregiver’s practice games like ‘Knock it down’in addition to making a referral to a specialist or making an appointment for further monitoring, depending on the specific needs of the child.
Entitled “Demystifying climate change and its relationship with Early Childhood Development”, this webinar is a follow up from the February launch webinar, Putting Young Children at the Center of Environmental and Climate Change Actions, which kickstarted ARNEC, UNICEF EAPRO and Save the Children’s Asia-Pacific regional initiative around advocating for young children’s rights to clean, safe and sustainable environments, focused on climate change and environmental degradation.
This webinar aims to equipped participants with more knowledge on climate change and understand how ECD is part of the solution to support sustainable development and empowered them to support this collaborative initiative. A climate change expert will help to ‘demystify’ both the basic concepts of climate change, as well as the processes like the UNFCCC, Conference of Parties (CoPs) and relevant frameworks like the Paris Agreement, 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for DRR. We will then explore how ECD can be a solution to address climate change and contribute towards sustainable development.
The objectives of this webinar are as follows:
- Introduce basic concepts of climate change, the UNFCC process and other frameworks and relevant terms for the ECD sector
- Reform the narrative to show how ECD has already been practicing sustainable development
Missed the webinar? Watch the recording here. Passcode: Q3VU0$w1
Click here for a copy of the webinar highlights from the webinar and the presentation slides deck could be downloaded here .
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