Afternoon session: Toward ECD Policy Planning in Your Country

This workshop will present key concepts and the basic process used for preparing early childhood policies. The core text will be Planning Policies for Early Childhood Development: Guidelines for Action (copies are available electronically from the author in Russian, English, French and Spanish). Participants are encouraged to reflect on the ECD policy situation in their countries and to bring a brief description of the challenges they are currently facing and some questions for discussion. It would be best to have 2 or more participants per country in order to form small country planning groups.

The workshop will include the following activities:

• Initial presentation on ECD policy planning: Why is it important?
• Core concepts for ECD policy planning and “policy-planning basics”
• Brief presentations by participants (5 min.) on their current country situations
• Small group work by persons from the same country to prepare a “Plan of Action” for next steps when they return
• Presentation of the Work Plans and dialogue

Emily Vargas-Barón, Director, The Rise Institute, USA