International Conference on Early Childhood development in Pakistan
Conference Theme
Sub-themes:
1- Good Health
2- Adequate Nutrition
3- Early Learning & development opportunities
4- Security & Safety
5- Responsive Caregiving
6- Early Childhood Development in Emergencies
7- Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
8- Themes for Plenaries
Important Dates
Call for Papers
Registrations
Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Early Childhood Development (ECD) is the foundation to transform societies and generations. A good foundation starts right from conception, and makes a difference throughout a person’s life, and gives the next generation a better start. Educated, healthy and skilled people participate in, and contribute to the financial and social wealth of their societies. Early Childhood Development forms the basis of intelligence, personality, social behavior, and capacity to learn and nurture oneself as an adult.
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Sub-themes:
Good Health
- Care during Pregnancy – Practices, Opportunities and Challenges
- Postpartum depression and its impact on mother & child health
- Mental Health of Parents and other Caregivers – Its Impact on Child Care & Development
Adequate Nutrition
- Undernutrition (Stunting and Wasting):
- Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) Ensuring Food Security for Every Child – current status, opportunities & challenges
- Maternal nutrition – Problem, its impact & solutions
- Infant and Young Child Feeding – What are adverse/sub optimal feeding practices and possible solutions to address them? How to ensure responsive feeding and care
Early Learning & development opportunities
- Ensuring Quality Early Childhood Development Services – A Strategy to Develop ECD Workforce
- Single National Curriculum for Early Childhood Care & Education – Implementation, Challenges and Opportunities
- Professional Development of ECD Teachers – Innovative Pedagogical Practices
- Promoting Playful and Positive Parenting for Nurturing Children
- Impact of play based learning on child development
- The new dynamics of online teaching and its impact on young children
- Ed-Tech & Early Childhood Development
- Role of home, school and communities in Early Childhood Development
- Inclusive Early Childhood Development & Education
- Urbanization and Early Childhood Development
Security & Safety
- Importance of positive parenting practices versus Adverse Childhood Experiences (neglect, violence, early & forced marriages, child labour and displacement)
- Creating safe & environment for promoting Early Childhood Development
- Warning signs of child abuse and neglect and how teachers and parents can play their role in sensitizing and protecting children
- Child Rights Interventions in Pakistan: Advocacy, Policies and Implementation
Responsive Caregiving
- Role of secure emotional relations between children and their caregivers for ECD
- Building capacity of parents and caregivers to recognize danger signs/red flags in holistic development of their children from Zero to age 8 & to respond their needs timely
Early Childhood Development in Emergencies
- Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Development
- Supporting & building Capacities of Parents & Caregivers- Ensuring Early Childhood Development during and beyond COVID-19
- Early Childhood Development in the age of Climate Change
- Government initiatives for ECD in emergencies
Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
- ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
- ECD Governance Structure
- Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
- ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan
Themes for Plenaries
- Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
- Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
- Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD
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Early Childhood Development (ECD) is the foundation to transform societies and generations. A good foundation starts right from conception, and makes a difference throughout a person’s life, and gives the next generation a better start.