Session Overview: The Path of Most Resilience

The Path of Most Resilience: Early childhood care and development in emergencies


Global Consultation 2009, Istanbul

Thursday 2 April 9:00-13:00, Concurrent Working Session Block 5

Abstract

Early childhood care and development is a crucial part of ensuring children have the best platform from which to develop. It views childhood holistically and acknowledges the fundamental role families play in children’s healthy development. Even in resource-stretched contexts families and caregivers can provide their children with essential building blocks that will form a foundation of physical, social, emotional and cognitive well-being for their futures. In emergencies the impact of good ECCD programming has the potential to build resilience in children and assist families in establishing good practices to increase the emotional, social, nutritional and intellectual stimulation of children from womb to classroom, as well as in their neighborhoods and communities.

This working session will discuss implications to programming and M&E and will use this knowledge to draft an action plan to move ECCD forward within emergency response. The ECCD working session will build knowledge among participants and draw on their experiences to ensure the plan of action is practical and realistic.

Session Objectives

  • Objective 1: Build an understanding of ECCD and its potential to mitigate the impact of emergencies on young children and their families
  • Objective 2: Examine implications for programming ECCD in emergencies
  • Objective 3: Examine implications for M&E which enhances global knowledge and capacity in ECCD in Emergencies
  • Objective 4: Establish ways to build capacity in the field (through revision of INEE Minimum Standards to include ECCD guidance)
  • Objective 5: Develop an Action Plan for moving forward

Expected Outcomes

  • Outcome 1: Participants will gain increased understanding of what ECCD is and the rationale for ECCD interventions in emergencies
  • Outcome 2: Participants will gain increased knowledge of challenges and opportunities for implementing ECCD in emergencies from the design to the evaluation of the programme
  • Outcome 3: Participants will gain a clear understanding of the vision of ECCD for the next 3 years including main tools, training materials planned to be produced, and research to be conducted
  • Outcome 4: Participants and EEWG members will have identified possibilities for joint preparation of key advocacy messages and priorities and gaps among planned activities
  • Outcome 5: Participants and delegates will be provided with the opportunity to evaluate the session

Panel

Chairs:

  • Louise Zimanyi, The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (CGECCD)
  • Amalia Fawcett, Plan International Australia

Presenters:


Materials

  • The Path of Most Resilience: Early Childhood Care and Development in Emergencies Principles and Practice. A draft paper prepared by the Consultative Group on ECCD Working Group on Emergencies and the INEE Task Team on Early Childhood. This paper describes as integrated, holistic approach to assisting children affected by crisis and serves as a starting point, and an opportunity to outline foundational principles of the field of early childhood care and development in emergencies. This is a working paper; revisions are forthcoming. If you have any comments of suggestions, please email lzimanyi@ryerson.ca.

For further information on this session please contact the Session Coordinator Amalia Fawcett at {encode="amalia.fawcett@plan.org.au" title="amalia.fawcett@plan.org.au"}.

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