Lead Poisoning and its Devastating Impacts on Early Childhood Development

Over 800 million children globally are affected by lead, with the majority residing in low and middle-income countries. Lead poisoning links to heart and kidney disorders, impaired intelligence, violent behavior and premature death.

Flooding and ECD: Protecting Young Children Amidst Growing Threats of Climate Change

World Assembly and Conference: “Right from the Start for ECCE: Step Beyond All Together

This international call is intended to support knowledge exchange and policy learning through communities of practice, reaffirming the commitments to ECCE transformation and the consolidation of actions for development, cooperation and solidarity raised in The Tashkent Declaration and Commitments to Action for Transforming Early Childhood Care and Education and in the Global Partnership Strategy for Early Childhood (GPS) mechanism.

2024 ARNEC Regional Conference on Early Childhood Development

The 2024 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Early Childhood Development (ECD) aims to drive actions and equip policy makers and practitioners with the tools and approaches to address current challenges in early childhood.

Enhancing Refugee Self-Reliance and Wellbeing: Quality, Holistic and Gender-transformative ECD

Please join the UNHCR, the Moving Minds Alliance, Sesame Workshop, Van Leer Foundation, the International Network for Education in Emergencies and PLAN International for a webinar on Enhancing Refugee Self-Reliance and Wellbeing: Quality, holistic and gender-transformative ECD.

From Pollution to Solution: Clean Air for Young Children in Asia Pacific

In conjunction of the 7 September International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies and the upcoming G20 Summit in India, this webinar will bring together a dialogue between environmental experts and national advocates working on this intersection on air pollution and children. Together, we will continue to highlight the urgency of taking collective actions to end air pollution to improve the health co-benefits of climate mitigation on nurturing care and development of young children. 

Diverse entry points for playful parenting programs: Learning from evidence-based design, delivery, and scale in Australia, Bhutan, and India

Cases and experiences of Plan Australia, Save the Children and the Ministry of Health in Bhutan, and Mobile Creches India will be presented, with a learning response from ITA Pakistan. The University of Wollongong will help facilitate the webinar discussions.

Harnessing Technology: a review of digital tools supporting parents and the early childhood workforce

ARNEC is pleased to invite you to the launch of the “Harnessing Technology: a review of digital tools supporting parents and the early childhood workforce” by the Bernard Van Leer Foundation and Results for Development. Join us for the global launch on 6 July featuring a presentation of the findings and discussion with the report contributors.

Nurturing Care Framework (2018 to 2023): Reflections and Looking Forward

Join ECDAN for the launch of the Nurturing Care Framework Progress Report 2018-2023: Reflections and Looking Forward.

Webinar - Promoting playful parenting through remote modalities: sharing evidence, challenges and opportunities

Language: English | Interpretation: Spanish and Portuguese Time: 8:00 - 9:30 (EDT) | 1:00 - 14:30 (BST) | 15:00 - 16:30 (EAT) | 17:30 - 19:00 (IST) Date: Wednesday, 24 May 2023 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Language: English | Interpretation: Spanish and Portuguese