The ECE Centers were opened and managed through Provincial Institute of Teacher Education (PITE), Nawabshah.
The Inter-provincial Forum on ECE was organized as part of observance of Education For All Global Action Week.
Most importantly, they also indicate the capacity of ECE programmes to mitigate the distressing effects that socially disadvantaged environments have on child development and learning.
Inaugurating the Inter-provincial Forum on Early Childhood Education (ECE) under the framework of EFA Week 2012, jointly organized by UNESCO, UNICEF and Aga Khan Foundation in Islamabad.
"This cannot be explained by saying this is historical conservation, It is not that, it is about money, " said Ece Demirel, an activist with the Urban Movement Forum, an organization that tracks development projects across Turkey.
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Dr. Kozue Kay Nagata, UNESCO Representative to Pakistan, highlighted the role of good quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) in bridging the gap of socio-economic inequalities between rich and poor, and elimination of discrimination in the society.
Similarly, UNESCO noted that the net enrolment ratio (NER) in pre-primary education in 2005 for children aged 3 to 5 years was 46 per cent which suggest that well over half the pre-school aged population has no access to ECE.
Given that limited access to quality ECE has negative effects on child development which, in turn, undermines child performance at primary and post-primary school, The Mother-Child Home Education Programme (MOCEP) was initiated in 2000 to empower poor families to provide early childhood literacy training to their children through a home-based intergenerational literacy training approach.
During the day long proceedings and at the conclusion of the Forum, the participants emphasized the need of raising education budget at least up to 4% of the GDP, creating a special budget line for Early Childhood Education (ECE), and creation of an Inter-provincial Forum on Education by the Federal Ministry of Inter-provincial Coordination.
Despite these impressive gains in primary and secondary education, most Bahraini children, particularly those from poor families, still have limited access to comprehensive and quality early childhood education (ECE) due to: poverty and limited State investment in or support of ECE programmes (in fact, comprehensive early education programmes are non-existent in the country) and the fact that child participation in pre-school classes is largely seen as a luxury.
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