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2025: The Peak of Child Rights Violations

2026: Sustaining joint action to develop ECD ecology

The year 2025 witnessed challenges that were perhaps the most severe in our modern history, putting at stake the rights of young children. Nevertheless, a glimmer of hope has emerged from the concerted efforts of humanitarian, scientific, and academic work concerned with ECD sector.

Palestinian Education Still Under Attack:

A Joint Study by Cambridge, the Centre for Lebanese Studies, and UNRWA

This report offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Israeli genocide in Gaza/ Palestine and escalating military and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank on the Palestinian education sector.

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ANECD Launches the "Arab Working Group for ECD Research" from Jordan

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ANECD’s Webinar on the Early Childhood Workforce

The Arab Network for Early Childhood (ANECD) hosted a webinar in partnership with the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative (ECWI) titled "Initiatives to Support the Early Childhood Workforce" on July 27th, 2023. The event featured the participation of the International Step by Step Association (ISSA), which co-founded the initiative with the Results for Development (R4D) Foundation, as well as the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Center for Lebanese Studies (CLS).

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Webinars

Wednesday, March 04, 2026
3:00 PM

Breaking Through: What Will It Take to Put Early Childhood at the Center?

The Arab Network for Early Childhood Development (ANECD) invites you to participate in the inaugural ECOS Institute Thought Leadership Event, titled Breaking Through: What Will It Take to Put Early Childhood at the Center? This virtual gathering addresses the following fundamental question: Why does early childhood still struggle to secure the visibility, investment, and priority it deserves? And what will it take to change that trajectory?

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