Day |
Panel Sessions |
Room 1
Expanding ECD Investment & Assessing Costs |
Room 2
Implementing & Strengthening ECD Policies & Plans |
Room 3
Increasing Access to Quality ECD & Going to Scale |
Room 4
Expanding Services for Vulnerable Children |
Room 5
Special
Topics |
9 November |
12:00 - 9:00 |
Registration |
10 November |
7:30 – 9:00 |
Registration and Seating
All must be registered and seated by 9:00 a.m. due to security requirements |
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10:00 – 12:00 |
Opening Ceremony
Keynote Address by Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta |
Lunch |
12:30 -2:00 |
Lunch |
What are the challenges? |
1
2:00 – 3:30 |
1.1
Chair: Marito Garcia
V.S. Subrahmanian & Marito Garcia
Ernest Chikuni
Impact of Food, Fuel, Financial & Ecological Crises on Children & ECD Services: Creating Combined Safety Nets & Integrated ECD Services in SSA |
1.2
Chair: Agnes Akosua Aidoo Claudia Silva & Antonio Pereira
Yacob Habte
Tina Hyder & Liberian speaker
Eby Ould Cheik
Challenges of ECD Policy Planning & Implementation in SSA |
1.3
Chair: Sara Hommel
Marie Louise Samuels
Hasina Ebrahim
Linda Biersteker
Scaling Up ECD
Services: The Challenge of Meeting 0 – 4 Children’s Needs in SSA |
1.4
Chair: Rokhaya Diawara
Norma Rudolph
Pablo Stansbery
Elizabeth Oyugi & Damaris K. Wambua
Africa’s Most
Vulnerable & Invisible Children including Language Minorities: Who Are They & How Can We Best Help Them? |
1.5 (policy)
Chair: Michelle Neuman
Rokhaya Diawara
Michelle Neuman
Emmanuel Traoré & Grégoire Tonguino
Discussant: Bonaventure Maiga
Achieving EFA Goal One: Mainstreaming ECD into Education Sector Plans and Programs |
3:30 – 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
2.
4:00 – 5:30 |
2.1
Chair: Ahlin Byll Cataria
Aimee Verdisco
Jacques van der Gaag
James Cairns
Ndeye KhadyDiop
Early Childhood Development: The Number One Social & Economic Investment |
2.2
Chair: Sian Williams
Sian Williams
Samuel Ngaruiya
Hyacinth Kulemeka
Resty Muziribi & Hadijah.Nandyose
Setting ECD Policy Guidelines, Regulations & Standards: Ideas from the Caribbean, Kenya, Uganda & Malawi |
2.3
Chair: Eveline Pressoir
Emily Vargas-Barón
Regina Lauricella
Discussants: Eveline Pressoir
Marcel Ouattara
Margaret Okai
1. Taking ECD to
Scale: Lessons from Latin America & Their Relevance to SSA
2. Presentation of the Global Early Childhood Progress Report: A Focus on Africa |
2.4
Chair: Jayne Wood
Agoh Aké Eben-ézer
Daniel Ooma McVitalis
Elvira Sanchez Igual
ECD Services for Vulnerable Children Affected by Violent Conflicts |
2.5 (policy)
Chair: Kofi Marfo
Bame Nsamenang
Elizabeth Ngutuku, Auma Okwany & Arthur Muhangi
Masoud Ali
Linda Biersteker
Oumar Barry
Africa’s Triple ECD Heritages: Indigenous, Islamic-Arabic & Western-Christian: Implications for ECD Policies |
5:30 – 7:00 |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
Open Dialogue Space (Participants select topics) |
7:00 – 10:00 |
Reception and Cultural Performance |
11 November |
8:30 – 9:00 |
Keynote Address by Joseph Foumbi |
What Has Been Accomplished? |
3
9:00 – 10:30 |
3.1
Chair: Prof. Mouhamed
Galaye Sall
Jonathan Carter
Kathy Bartlett
El Hadji Malick Dia
Analysing ECD Costs & Identifying Lessons Learned: Cost Studies from South Africa, the Madrasa Resource Centre, and Senegal |
3.2
Chair and Discussant: Madeez Adamu-Issah
Ruth O.Q. Addison
Margaret Okai
Isabella Sagoe-Moses
Stephen Adongo
Establishing Institutional “Motors” to Implement ECD Policies & Plans and to Scale Up Multi-Sectoral ECD Initiatives: Achievements and Challenges in Ghana |
3.3
Chair: Dorothy Ettling
Soonita Kistamah
Jacqueline Kabambe
Marie Josephine Kora Thama
Dorothy Ettling & Kitty Kabubi
How SSA ECD Projects Have Been Taken to Scale: The Role of Pre- & In-Service Training in Mauritius, Malawi, Benin & Zambia |
3.4
Chair: Andre Viviers
Chloe O’Gara &
Bonita Birungi
Brad Strickland & Kate Fleming
Pam Picken
Kendra Blackett-Dibinga
Infants & Young Children Affected or Infected by HIV/AIDS: Current & Future Responses in SSA |
3.5 (scale)
Chair: Vijitha Mahadevan Eyango
Aissatou Alkoire Zoumarou
Fred-Martin Azene
Francoise Soua Ntyam
Taking Community-Based ECD Programmes to Scale: Benin, Central African Republic, and Cameroon |
10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
4
11:00 – 12:30 |
4.1
Chair: Anne Buchi Okonkwo
MacJohn Onyekwere Nwobiala
Adeline Ojogwu
Rakiya Idris
Increasing Public Sector Support of ECD Services from Birth to Six in Nigeria
|
4.2
Chair: Nurper Ulkuer
Oumar Barry
Shelina Nawaz Walli
Norma Rudolph
Sophie Naudeau
Impact Evaluations for ECD Programmes: Implications for Policy |
4.3
Chair: Kalidou Diallo
Alan Pence Sarah Klaus
Margaret Irvine
Peter Mwaura
Pre- & In-Service
Training, Curricula & Educational Materials Development to Achieve Scale & Quality: Lessons Learned in CEE/CIS, ECDVU, South Africa & Kenya |
4.4
Chair: Karin Hyde
James Watts Munang & Claire Soppo
Souley Rabi Ousseini
Hamadou
Venerande Kabarere
Integrated ECD Services for Children Affected by Severe Poverty, Malnutrition & Diseases in Cameroon, Niger & Rwanda |
4.5 (vulnerable)
Chair: Carla Bertoncino
Hellen Ochieng Ofwono
M. J. Themane
Mary Phiri
Aim Eveline Joel Kamote
Innovative Approaches for Developing Services for Children Affected or Infected by HIV/AIDS |
12:30 – 1:00 |
Lunch
Gathering of Country ECD Focal Points |
5
2:00 – 3:30 |
5.1
Chair: Ruth O. Q. Addison
Sian Williams
Richard Brandon
Considering ECD Funding Targets for SSA Countries, & Promoting Cost Assessments &
Simulations for Achieving Sustainable ECD Services: Ideas from the Caribbean & the USA |
5.2
Chair: Rama Diop Sabaly
Apollinaire Kigne
Patrice Feilema Moheresse
Karin Anne Litelewa Hyde
Kallé Seye
Participatory &
Decentralised Processes for Developing ECD Policies & Strategic Plans |
5.3
Chair: Jeremiah Chikovore
Wirsiy Hedweg Mufer
Alinune Nsemwa
Haddy Khan & Roseline Sherman
Lucien Hein
Bame Nsamenang
Roles of Fathers in Increasing Access to ECD & Taking ECD Services to Scale |
5.4
Chair: Emily Vargas-Barón
Alexandra Alfau
Tirussew Teferra
Claudine Storbeck & Selverani Moodley
Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) Services for Children with Developmental Delays, Malnutrition & Disabilities in Africa |
5.5
Co-Chairs: Nurper Ulkuer and Yoshie Kaga
(and other panellists to be named)
How Can ECD Become a Global Development Goal? |
3:30 – 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
4:00 – 4:30 |
|
4:30 – 6:00 |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
Open Dialogue Space
(Participants select topics) |
4:30 – 9:00 |
Development Marketplace
Poster Sessions |
12 November |
8:30 – 9:00 |
Keynote Address by Cyril Dalais |
What are the Next Steps? |
6
9:00 – 10:30 |
6.1
Chair: Eveline Pressoir
Rokhaya Diawara
Louise Zimanyi
Ziba Vaghri
Yoshie Kaga
Regional Advocacy and
Global Collaboration for Increasing Investment in ECD |
6.2
Chair: Marie-Louise Samuels
Moussa N’Nao
Fortidas Bakuza
Theoneste Niyonzima & Brigitte Izabiriza
Marie-Louise Samuels
ECD Policy Development and Implementation: Next Steps in Senegal, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Africa |
6.3
Chair: Vanya Berrouet
Agnes Kabore & Franck Tamini
Maekelech Gidey
Agnes Mando Banda
Abdoul Sow
How to Take ECD Services to Scale in SSA: Next Steps |
6.4
Chair: Ousmane Raymond Seye
Ndahirou Mbaye
Oumar Barry
Stephanie Ortolano
Marian Zeitlin
Research Designed
to Empower Academically Vulnerable African Children and Achieve International School Performance Standards: Next Steps for Applied Research in Africa |
6.5 (research)
Chair: Jophus Anamuah-Mensah
Alan Pence
Kofi Marfo
Peter Mwaura
Robert Serpell
Strengthening Africa’s Voice in Africa’s Contributions to Child Development Research: Next Steps
|
10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 - 12:30 |
Plenary on Next Steps
Ann-Therese Ndong-Jatta, World Bank Representative, Agnes Akosua Aidoo, Jacques van der Gaag, and Nurper Ulkuer
Building Convergence and Gaining Momentum for Action: Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility |
12:30 – 2:00 |
Lunch |
2:00 –
3:30 |
Ministers’ Roundtable |
First Ladies’ Roundtable |
International Development Partners’ Roundtable |
Sub-Regional Roundtable: Western/Central Africa* |
Sub-Regional Roundtable:
Southern Africa/Indian Ocean |
Sub-Regional Roundtable: Eastern/Northern Africa |
3:30 – 4:30 |
Coffee Break and Revision of the Conference Communiqué |
4:30 –
6:00 |
Final Plenary Session
Chair: Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta |
