ACCD Magazine: Khutwa 34

The Arab Council for Childhood and Development published in autumn 2018 Issue 34 of Khutwa (Step), a magazine specialized in Early Childhood. This issue focuses on “child and violence”.

ECPC Brief: Contributions of ECD programming to sustainable peace

At the end of 2018, the Early Childhood Peace Consortium released a brief on contributions of Early Childhood Development services to preventing violent conflict and sustaining peace.

Calls to reduce digital poverty to improve children’s access to quality education

The unprecedented disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to children in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region losing an additional year of learnin

Arab Network for Early Childhood Development (ANECD) Reference Document

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