For a Happy Childhood: In-Service Training Manual for Kindergarten Educators (Second edition, 2014, in Arabic)

Mapping of pre-service and in-service training and educational programs for professionals in the early childhood sector, in the Arab Region, namely in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, and Jordan (in Arabic)

This resource is available in Arabic only, and can be viewed by clicking

Report of APECD First Regional Consultative Group Meeting

The meeting took place in October 2013 in Amman. The meeting reviewed APECD achievements and discussed coming plans. The report is in Arabic.

Building Capacity of Early Childhood Educators

It is an executive summary of the Arabic report of the regional workshop that took place within two pillars of the Arab Regional Agenda for Improving Education Quality (ARAIEQ): the Arab Program fo

Technical consultation for ECDAN on 27-28/06/2016 in New York

A technical consultation was held to define the results framework, core actions, country engagement, and structure for the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN), June 27-28, 2016 in New York. ECDAN being proposed to give every child a fair start to life.

Jordan Early Childhood Education Executive Plan, 2016-2025

By 2025, the Ministry of Education and UNICEF in Jordan will build on the advocacy efforts of the Sustainable Development Goals s and the National Human Resources Development Strategy to provide al

Early Childhood Resource Center: Workforce Capacity Building

The Early Childhood Resource Center is (ECRC) is a Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization established in 1985 to improve the education of young children in Palestine.

ISSA Conference, October 2017

The International Step by Step Association (ISSA) organized its Annual Conference “Local Responses, Global Advances: Towards Competent Early Childhood Systems”, in October 2017 in Belgium.

New Webinar Series Explores What, Why, and How ECD Interventions Work in Real-World Settings

The Early Childhood Development Action Network and the

ISSA webinar on NCF, June 2018

The International Step by Step Association (ISSA) organized a webinar on the Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development on June 29, 2018.