Early childhood care and education
The Gambia's Efforts to Promote Inclusive Early Childhood Development
Executive Summary, The goals of the Gambian government were to increase access to ECD services for all children including children with special needs in order to ensure a fair start in life This also includes enhancing childrens readiness to start lower basic school with special focus on their holistic developmentThe government attempt to achieve this by expanding and strengthening annexed and communitybased ECD and parenting education programmes especially for crosscutting issues such as gender and special needs Gambia also aim to increase the number of ECD teacher trainees and facilitators trained at Gambia College Recruitment and retention of qualified ECD facilitators teachers and other caregivers providing training for ECD staff to ensure effective programme development delivery monitoring and supervision of ECD programmes at all levels is a priority For ECD care supporting the provision of nutritious meals for all children in ECD centres with child protection health and WASH facilities
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