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• Early Childhood Development

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• Northern coast of South America
• Tropical zone
• approx. 164 km2
• approx. 450.000 inhabitants
• 70 in capital Paramaribo suburbs
• ( ca. 0,4 of land area)
• coastal area (north) savanne interior (south)

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• 80 covered with tropical rainforest
• (difficult to access poor infrastructure)
• multi-ethnic population
• more than 30 languages spoken
• lingua franca Dutch language used in school

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Policy ECD 0-8 yrs.

• Caribbean Plan of Action 1997
• adjusted July 2002
• National ECD coalition (NGOs, individuals)
• Febr. 2002 - excecutive level
• Interministerial ECD commission - June 2002
• body policy level
• monitoring body in
  cooperation
• with coalition coordinating

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Legislation standards

• Education act (from 7 yrs.) to be revised
• Childcare draft to be
• Child protection completed
• ECD standards - draft document

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Strategies - Activities

• MoH
• Well-baby clinics 0-1 0-5 yrs
• primary health care, nutrition,
• monitoring growth development
• parent education
• training health workers

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Strategies - Activities

• MoH
• Early intervention program
• - Assessment 0-6 yrs
• - Early stimulation/hometraining
• - School readiness
• - Efforts for inclusion of children with
  
• disabilities

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Strategies - Activities

• MoSA
• - Daycare facilities (0-4 yrs)
• - Policy for children (0-18 yrs)

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Strategies - Activities

• MoE
• - Preschool/kindergarten (4-5 yrs)
• - Elementary schools from 6 yrs. etc
• - Teenage mother project

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Strategies - Activities

• NGOs
• - Public and parent education
• - Parenting program
• Parent education
• Parent associations
• etc.

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Coverage - Access

• Facilities
• 0-3 yrs. - ca. 9 of children approx. 104
  facilities
• 3-5 yrs. - 36,9 of children in ECE progr.
• (daycare playschool)
• 273 preschools for 4-5 year olds (8
  private)
• 6 yrs. and up - average of 77,5 in prim.
  education
• coastal area approx. 87
• interior approx. 61

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Coverage - Access

• Teacher training - caregivers daycare centres
• (0-4)
• - preschool/kindergarten
• teachers (4-8)
• Curriculum - 0 3 à 4 yrs.
• draft in development
• - 4 6 yrs. in place

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Coverage - Access

• Equality ?
• Challenges - Interior
• - Language
• - high repetition rate
• - high school drop out

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• Experiences
• in preventing
• school drop out

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