Early Childhood Education

UNESCO-IBE and Dubai Cares, officially closed their collaborative project "Building Resilient and Sustainable Early Childhood Care and Education Systems" with a conference that was held at the Dubai Cares' Pavilion in Expo 2020 Dubai last week. It was attended by ministers, curriculum experts and civil society representatives from the corresponding countries. They presented six resource packs, three of which were created jointly with the member states involved in the project, namely Eswatini, Lao PDR and Cameroon. Speakers at the conference included Tariq Al Gurg (CEO and Vice-Chairman of Dubai Cares), Al Anood Al Abdool (Deputy Director of Foreign Assistance at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation), Lady Howard Mabuza (Minister of Education and Training of Eswatini), Guillaume Hawing (Minister of Pre-University Education and Literacy, Guinea), Yao Ydo (IBE-Director) and Hans Rainer Künzle (Chairman of Green Leaves Education Foundation).