• EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007

Country profiles were commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2007 Report: Strong Foundations: Early Childhood Care and Education, and compiled by UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE). The profiles may include the following information:

- Starting age of compulsory education

- National definition of ISCED programmes

- Normative age group(s) covered by ISCED  programmes

- ISCED programmes: statistics and indicators

- Information about other ECCE programmes (generally preceding ISCED programmes)

- Legislation concerning ECCE

- Official body/bodies in charge of supervision or coordination

- Other entities involved in the provision and main types of providers

- Type of personnel involved

- Type of staff training

- Recent national policies and reforms

- Efforts targeted at vulnerable or disadvantaged children

- Information concerning the ECCE curriculum or the contents

- Information about parenting programmes

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Country Profiles