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The impact of technology in early education
Lead: Eddy Kalisa
Location: Rwanda
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This initiative will promote sciences, innovation and technology in pre-school in Rwanda.
We will introduce and innovate using technology in early childhood education. We will enable our pre-school to have access to the internet and introduce a children’s computer lab, eventually establishing a Coding Program

Jamnesia Family Festival
Lead: Olivia Wilmot
Location: Jamaica
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Parents have the opportunity to witness their children’s agency as well as to play as adults by being creative. Children have the opportunity to be in a natural, positive environment creating cultural artifacts with their families. Intergenerational approaches grandparents in creating memories inspired by the activities that embody children’s rights.

Submission of proposal for eradication of hazardous child labour project
Lead: Asaduzzaman Fakir
Location: Bangladesh
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The PRA approach will be applied in the communities that take part in identifying and working to protect children at work from the hazardous conditions. Local authorities will be sensitized to child labor issues and will be requested to play a major role in promoting responsible parenthood amongst the adults, protecting and promoting children’s rights. The communities will be engaged in a workplace monitoring process which, in the long run, will ensure a child labor free workplace.

Environments to play
Lead: Vera Paolillo
Location: Brazil
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This initiative works to address that gap and the use of space as a generator of significant experiences in the learning and development of young children. Space educates, just as language or interpersonal relationships do. The organization of a suitable space for playful experiences in early childhood acts as a framework for conditions that includes listening to children.

Technology and research in ECD
Lead: Eddy Kalisa
Location: Rwanda
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We are to use technology and innovation in early childhood education and promote research into how online games impact children’s play.

Ending violence against children through awareness campaigns and capacity enhancement of child protection structures
Lead: Ziolire Moyo Namondwe
Location: Malawi
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1. sensitize communities including children with information of child rights and responsibilities focusing on different forms of abuse
2. sensitize children and community members on reporting mechanisms on all forms of abuses.
3. equip existing community-based child protection structures to facilitate access to vital protection services for vulnerable children in the target areas.
The approach is guided by participatory approaches working with target groups to bring about immediate and systemic change through empowering individuals and building more stronger supportive systems.
1. At the community level: The project will promote positive parenting model to reduce Violence Against Children (VAC) within the home. Activities will be implemented through existing grassroots organizations and will use
the Community Score Card (CSC) process to facilitate monitoring, empower communities and improve accountability of VAC service providers including the police.
2. At the district level the project will engage law enforcement officers and social workers in a participatory capacity assessment in terms of the ability to provide effective services to address VAC using an adapted score card approach. This assessment will inform the development of a training and capacity building plan. Working with district level officials the project will propose specific targets for addressing VAC related cases.

Early Childhood Citizenship
Lead: Ana Luiza Oliva
Location: Brazil
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Improvement plans will expand provision that is available so that the holistic needs of children can be provided for. In some instances, it may lead to the development of new buildings, in others, it will utilise what is available and improve practice. Our purpose is to drive improvement in the positive experiences that young children have and experience in their local environments, their homes and preschools. Our focus is on a child’s right to access resources that improve their current early years experiences (including healthcare, counselling, education, and play, and that provide what they need to maximise child development potential that will positively impact on their future.

Pregnancy, Parenting and Play Workshop
Lead: Nicole Kabasuga
Location: Uganda
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Meeting and Playing Area Il Paese dei Balocchi
Lead: Aldo Fortunati
Location: Italy
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Roundhouse Children’s Garden
Lead: Brenda Nolan
Location: Canada
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Integration of Services with Mind, Body, and Soul at the Forefront
Lead: Jessica Pablo
Location: California, United States
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Early Childhood Quality Indicators Project
Lead: Rick Fiene
Location: Pennsylvania
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The tool has gone through extensive reliability and validity testing in the US and Canada and is now ready to be released to the general public. The tool will be made available to parents for free via download on various public websites and blogs. It has been shared locally in south central Pennsylvania, throughout the state and now it is being disseminated both nationally and internationally. It is readily available on https://rikinstitute.com

Children and hope
Lead: Joseph Stephane Wilfrid Junior Merise
Location: Haiti
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Initiatives for Married Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment in Nagarkurnool districts of Telangana State
Lead: Laxmanrao Yellini
Location: India
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SVK is trying to address are lack of awareness in communities about their rights and entitlements, low capacity in managing their own development, low or no accessibility of health, education services by children especially the girls from poorest and poor communities, Dalit families and from tribal groups, lack of skill and knowledge among the service providers in effective implementation of Government Acts and provisions. SVK especially focuses on addressing the issues of child protection such as child trafficking, child marriage, child labour and so on. Besides all of the above, SVK works to address the issues of inclusiveness among children with various disabilities.
SVK emphasises on empowerment of children, youth, women and the communities to access their rights and entitlements and manage their own development.

Setiap Kenit (Every Child)
Lead: Raihan Mohamed
Location: Kuala Lumpur
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– to empower parents and caregivers by equipping them with knowledge of early child development, enabling them to better understand and support their children’s growth and development.
– to stimulate early brain development through engaging children in various activities and providing appropriate care that fosters their cognitive, emotional, and social well-being.
– to create a village of support within the local community, establishing a network of individuals and resources that can provide assistance, guidance, and encouragement to parents and caregivers, ensuring that they have the necessary support system in place to raise thriving children.

Developing intergenerational respect and understanding through social integration
Lead: Anne Sivanathan working with dignitaries Ng Sze Hun and Jen Lee
Location: Malaysia
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This project will encourage parents to buy their children a single book and then to participate in an ongoing mobile book exchange. This makes reading an accessible pleasure for all children including the poorest children in the region.

Promoting the well-being of the child through family separation
Lead: Dr Emma Palmer
Location: England, UK
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1 To reduce the impact of family separation on children
2 Provide a gentle guidance to parents going through separation and divorce to remind/help them understand the impact this difficult period can have on young children and to help them understand the importance of giving children a voice during this stressful period
3. Encourage parents to work in a conciliatory way to reduce the impact on children

Supporting intergenerational advocacy through Youth Ambassador programmes
Lead: Gary Brown
Location: Wales, UK
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1 Strengthen the voice of young people in future generation locality and Partnership plans
2 Improve youth advocacy through training and development as an outcome of inclusion
3 Improve the skills of young people to promote future aspiration
We are developing a Youth Academy offering training and development that supports young people to use (and develop) their skills appropriately to support the community.
We will encourage engagement in a future vision for stronger youth voice in local decision making while promoting youths as advocates for current generations and help current youths to see their place in shaping the local community and community organisations as leaders of the future.

Center for children and family – our place to grow and development
Lead: Bozidar Nicolik
Location: Serbia
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While exploring the Reggio Emilia Approach, student will benefit from engaged educators who understand the culture, norms, and needs of their unique communities, as well as the value of a research informed, child focused and interest driven, blended learning opportunity that fully hears the voice of the child.

Promoting equity and diversity in play experiences of children in Brazil
Lead: Ana Marcilio
Location: Brazil
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In that community children and adults have pointed out that gender discrimination and racism are the worst violence they face on an everyday basis.
Within this project we will focus on the right to play in public spaces and through playing we will connect people aiming to fight injustice in public arena.

Improve workforce development opportunities for practitioners working with vulnerable young people
Lead: Connie Duran
Location: Mexico
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1. Hearing the voice of young people
2. Identify opportunities to improve
training course and
3. To Improve training and workforce development materials
Puerta Abierta is a non government organisation working to educate practitioners who work with young people at risk of or who have experienced some form of abuse.
The purpose of this project is to ensure that Puerta Abierta´s ongoing work of Paxia® deepens the participation of young people in its workforce development. Paxia is a reflective program committed to quality improvement and through this project Paxia will:
1. Encourage young people who have accessed support services to reflect upon their experience and to work together to consider what could be improved
2. Provide young people with the necessary support to evaluate training schemes for staff and to consider where improvements could be made to bring about better experiences for young people
By offering young people the opportunity to engage in reflection on their experiences and to reflect on opportunities for improvements, Paxia will ensure that the voice of young people is heard and that improvements will be made that will impact on those accessing services.

Center for children and family – our place to grow and development
Lead: Bozidar Nicolik
Location: Serbia
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The aims of the initiative are to:
1. Contribute to social inclusion and poverty reduction in Serbia by improving access to early development and education of Roma children
2. Developing incentives and more secure family environment for children from poor Roma families and empowered them to be able to be equal with their peers
3. Support for enrolment of Roma children at an early age in preschool educational programs
4. Support for the process of transition of Roma children from preschool to primary education
This is a developmental, educational program with a pronounced holistic approach in response to solving problems in the development and education of Roma children at an early age. Program activities are aimed at children aged 3 to 5, as well as their parents and family members. In addition to the main target group of Roma families and Roma children at an early age, the project includes preschool institutions and local self-government and others relevant local institution as target group in the context of the development of sustainable local policies in the field of improving the education of Roma children at an early age.
The main project activities are :
- Educational workshops for parents
- Educational and creative workshops for children
- Local team to support Roma child and families
- Actions in settlements – the mobilization of the Roma community

Developing a standardised quality improvement tool for early childhood settings in Nepal
Lead: Dr Meenakshi Dahal
Location: Nepal
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1. Improve opportunities for self-evaluation in early childhood settings in Nepal
2. Promote standardised expectations of good practice
Quality provision has been shown to have a positive and significant impact on the holistic development of children. The purpose of this project is to bring about sustainable improvement in childcare provision for the benefit of the child.
This project will focus on the self-evaluation aspect of the internal quality improvement cycle and will co-develop a standardised self-evaluation for settings. This will be made available to all interested settings and will be evaluated for effectiveness.

Including stakeholder engagement in the Inclusive Outdoor Classroom
Lead: Anne Sivanathan
Location: Malaysia
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To do this we will:
1. promote an understanding of children’s rights by encouraging external stakeholders to engage in the vision for Outdoor Classrooms and
2. involve these stakeholders (including children and young people) in planning for future Inclusive Outdoor Classrooms.

Development of an accredited quality qualification pathway for ECEC Learners
Lead: Mmatsetshweu Ruby Motaung
Location: Durban, S Africa
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It will:
• To develop an accessible qualification pathway for all practitioners
• To provide practitioners with the coaching and mentoring support required to improve successful outcomes
• To improve retention of practitioners on qualifications in the ECEC sector
• To improve outcomes in relation to successful completion of recognised and accredited qualification at HE level.

Promoting intergenerational Environmental Protection and Enjoyment
Lead: Jo Smith
Location: Wales, UK
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1. to inform families about areas of environmental interest
2. to encourage families to explore areas of natural beauty including coastlines, heritage and nature based activity in order to promote child and family mental health and well-being
3. to teach children and families about Environmental Protection and their responsibility to it
Recognising that children benefit from being outdoors and are more at risk from environmental problems than adults, this project aims to encourage intergenerational respect for and engagement with the environment. Using tourism as a driver for interest, the Flintshire Tourism Association working with Wrexham County Council, have developed a project that will promote sites of interest and activities to children and families. Integrated into this project is promotion of the importance of environmental responsibility and protection. By teaching children environmental responsibility at an early age, the project aims to contribute to intergenerational environmental protection and through educating children of today an ongoing lifetime enjoyment of the environment and interest in environmental protection.

Promoting relationships and early child development: Improving understanding of the importance of communication in the earliest months of a child’s life
Lead: ECE India
Location: India
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1. Developing a resource for distribution to parents and practitioners that outlines key messages and resources for further information
2. Distributes resources produced across parenting and practitioner networks
3. Provide training and workforce development materials
Linked to bonding, socialisation and holistic development opportunities it is imperative that we recognise early stage readiness for communication with newborn babies, and enjoy the opportunities it offers to both the child and parents/caregivers.
With that foundation of understanding, this initiative is intended to broaden that same message and to help parents/caregivers understand the value and importance of communication in the earliest months. It will help those engaging with children understand the journey from non-verbal communication to emerging vocalisation and the impact this early communication has on developing relationships and socialisation and speech. This will be evaluated for impact.

The Nurture Approach
Lead: Michelle Demirtas
Location: England, UK
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Promoting understanding of risk in play of children, aged 2 to 3 years
Lead: Active Childcare
Location: Wales, UK
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1. Help the staff team understand the importance of allowing young children to manage their risk in play, in a supported environment
2. Encourage young children to take age and stage appropriate risks, allowing them to gauge their activities with confidence
3. Promote, in young children, a healthy approach to balancing play activities and developing an awareness of positive risk taki.

Creating safe spaces for children, learning to walk to promote a child’s right to stage appropriate development in a mixed age setting
Lead: Active Childcare
Location: Wales, UK
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1. Improve the provision that is currently offered in a mixed age setting
2. Support children learning to walk by ensuring that their access to the appropriate environment is made available
3. Support parents in understanding the importance of encouraging children to engage in experiences that give opportunities to walk, even if they appear risky.
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Promoting communication through improved feeding techniques with very young babies
Lead: Active Childcare
Location: Wales, UK
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1. Strengthening communication between staff and babies during bottle feeding
2. Ensuring bottle feeding, preparation and practices are in line with the latest legal and recommended requirements for day-care
3. Through this work for babies, better opportunities for communicating with adults as participants rather than recipients of care.

Promoting the use of Welsh language and the rights of a child to develop an early and lifelong understanding of the native language of Wales
Lead: Active Childcare
Location: Wales, UK
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1. Promote the use of incidental Welsh language through play in the story telling, imaginative, play, and circle time
2. To promote the importance of developing the Welsh language at this early stage through parent/career networks
3. To promote respect for the culture and language of Wales.

Helping African Orphans
Lead: Perezi Mugisha
Location: Uganda
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The purpose of this initiative is to support young, orphaned children by helping them to access a holistic education. Providing mentorship and access to resources this initiative supports young girls, helping them to remain in school while addressing mental health issues and emotional healing.

Ha’paot Center- GrowHub
Lead: Anat Bar
Location: Israel
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GrowHub brings together various stakeholders working in the world of early childhood such as government offices & local authorities, early childhood organizations, professionals, entrepreneurs. leading companies, investors and parents.
* We Create A Platform For Cutting Edge, Innovative And Diverse Content About Early Childhood.
* Enable The Establishment And Activity Of Interdisciplinary Communities In The Field Of Early Childhood.
* Encourage, Promote And Provide A Platform For Innovative And Effective Solutions To Early Childhood Challenges.
* Connect Stakeholders, Entrepreneurs, Educators, Parents, Professionals, Local And National Governments, And Early Childhood Organizations.
* Provide Multidisciplinary Advice By Early Childhood And Innovation Experts
Ogangai Child Care & Support Project
Lead: Rev. James Arikosi
Location: Uganda
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The aim of this project is to support abandoned and orphaned children needing nutritional support, healthcare and education. The purpose of this work is to compensate for distressing childhood experiences and to improve the life-chances of children.

HighScope Indonesia Care
Lead: Antarina Citra Cininta
Location: Jawa Barat, Indonesia
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The primary aim of our project is to provide free preschool education to children in our neighborhood, ensuring that every child has access to quality early childhood education regardless of their socio-economic background.
By investing in the early education of our neighborhood children, we aspire to create a positive and lasting impact on the overall well-being of the community. Well-educated and socially aware individuals contribute to the development of a thriving and cohesive neighborhood. Advocacy for Early Childhood Education. Through this initiative, we aim to advocate for the importance of early childhood education at local and regional levels, emphasizing its role in shaping the future of individuals and communities.

ECA-GAIN Play Project
Lead: Dr Swati Popat Vats
Location: India
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This project is designed to enhance the understanding of parents and educators regarding the critical role of play and toys in early years of children, emphasizing natural forms of play, providing children with opportunities to engage with traditional toys and working to mitigate their immersion in digital games. We will connect with different schools, and stakeholders in education field to inspire them to start toy and play pedagogy in their school/early childhood centre. As part of this project, we will also connect with parents to spread awareness on how play can be beneficial and inculcated in their child’s daily lives for holistic development.

Improving Early Childhood Education in Nepal
Lead:Dr. Meenakshi Dahal
Location: Nepal
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Dr. Meenakshi Dahal is working on behalf of Kathmandu University to provide quality teaching and learning experiences to 400 early childhood educators (ECE teachers) to help therm improve the quality of direct provision for children and their own understanding of what ‘quality’ and reflection means in this sector.

Mother to Mother: Supporting Mother Groups of Autistic Children in Nepal
Lead:Bishal Kumar Bhandari
Location: Nepal
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The primary objectives of this initiative are to promote autism awareness among
mothers who are raising autistic children.
The initiative:
1. Offers psychological assistance and mentoring support for parents, facilitates the sharing of resources and experiences, and cultivates a feeling of solidarity among
parents, individuals, and families
2. Provides a counselling program
3. Provides parental assistance as needed
4. Supports the livelihoods of parents and provides support for therapy and
medication

Schools Where All Belong – Building a scalable model for mainstreaming education and healthcare for children with disabilities in India
Lead: Diana Vincent
Location: India
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The project is a holistic approach to enhancing inclusive education for children with disabilities (CWD) by engaging multi-stakeholders and empowering the local
communities. FWF has designed a ‘glocal’ model that aligns with the global policies
and standards for inclusive education while also being adaptive to the local and
cultural contexts. The goal of the project is to eliminate barriers and create
opportunities for children with disabilities in rural areas to access mainstream
education and healthcare. It aims to enhance inclusive learning environments and provide essential physical therapy and age-appropriate education for these children.
The program is not only about providing education and therapies, it focuses on the
empowerment of local communities, creating agents of change and amplifying voices of inclusive education and rights, thus ensuring every child has access to equal
opportunities. It embodies inclusion, innovation and impact, revolutionising education for children with disabilities.

Indigenous Child Protection Support Project
Lead: Ciani Quevai Yoka
Location: Republic of Congo
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This initiative works to support he rights of indigenous children. It works:
– to train community and indigenous leaders on the texts for the protection of
indigenous children
– to train local technical services and NGOs in the locality on the texts for the
protection of indigenous children
– to carry out awareness-raising and popularization actions on children’s rights in indigenous environments
– to set up a sustainable action committee for the protection and support of
indigenous children.
To achieve the expected results, this planned project will train 20 community and indigenous leaders on child protection texts, namely: Law No. 5-2011 of February 25, 2011 on the promotion and protection of indigenous populations, Law No. 4-2010 of June 14, 2010 on the protection of children in the Republic of Congo and the
International Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989. It will train 20 people
from local technical services and NGOs, namely: nurses, teachers, civil society
actors, social affairs, police officers, judges and raise awareness in indigenous
communities in collaboration with the community authorities in the planned locality

