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The global priority placed on early childhood education is underscored with targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4. As of 2023, however, "only around 4 in 10 children aged 3 and 4 attend early childhood education" around the world. [9]
In August 2024, she became the global director of education of UNICEF. Britto joined UNICEF in 2013. She was responsible for bringing neuroscience to inform global policies, and spearheaded the push to add early childhood development as another sustainable development goal.
UNICEF's activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters. [7]
The Hechinger Report explains how early childhood education in Norway is a national priority enshrined in law. ... UNICEF ranked Norway third among 41 wealthy countries in child well-being, as ...
1 Early life and education. ... From 1999 to 2004 she was UNICEF's regional director for West and Central Africa. ... Salah co-founded the Early Childhood Peace ...
At the global level, the participation rate in early childhood education was 69 percent in 2017, up from 63 percent in 2010. However, considerable disparities were found among least developed countries with rates ranging from 7 percent to nearly 100 percent. Sub-Saharan Africa faces the biggest challenges in the provision of basic school resources.
Childhood Education International and the United Nations: Childhood Education International has consultative status at the United Nations and membership in the NGO Committee on UNICEF. The Global Guidelines for Early Childhood Education and Care in the 21st Century were developed as a collaborative project between the U.S. National Committee of ...
Early childhood development, adolescent education, gender equality and education quality are the focus of UNICEF's education work in the region. UNICEF works to provide opportunities for all children to obtain a quality education, and to provide equal learning opportunities for boys and girls.