Our overall goal is to promote equitable access to quality ECD services – especially early learning opportunities – for all children, regardless of their socio-economic status, the area they live in, or any disabilities they may have.
Our objectives are to:
- Strengthen the regulatory framework, taking account of parent and child voices and Constitutional rights and duties.
- Enhance the recognition of and develop the content of the right to ECD at international and domestic levels.
- Hold the state to account for their existing statutory duties and commitments – including duties to register and fund non-centre-based programmes.
- Promote the inclusion of all children in ECD programmes, especially children with disabilities.
You can find a presentation outlining the EELC’s ECD strategy for 2024-25, including our planned activities under each objective, here.
Collaboration is important for our ECD work, especially given the holistic nature of ECD and the way that many different departments and agencies are implicated. We are a founding member of the Real Reform for ECD coalition, sit on the steering committee and chair the legal subcommittee.
