Viet Nam Human Rights
Action on early childhood development
7/12/19
The Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Early Childhood Development (ECD) adopted a Hanoi Call for Action on the implementation of ECD during its closing session in Hanoi on December 6.The call is expected to contribute significantly to accelerate the effective realisation of ECD in each country in the region in the near future.
The Hanoi Call for Action affirms the importance of a sustainable environment in achieving development aspirations globally, in the region, in each country and locality, and in shaping scopes and directions for child development in the Asia-Pacific region.
It also highlights the need to prioritise the investment of resources in children in order to build a solid foundation for a strong society and economic development in the region, in accordance with the objectives of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Sustainable Development Goals and countries’ development plans.
This document calls for commitments from governments and parliaments to coordinate to ensure the comprehensive development of children and mobilise support from all relevant sectors to promote the goals of child care and nourishment.
The call clearly states the unity in interdisciplinary coordination to promote a safe, sustainable and continuous nurturing environment for children through many specific activities concerning the policy environment, the living environment, the community environment and the family environment.
Delegates will review the progress of implementing the call’s contents and raise their ideas at the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on ECD in 2020.
Addressing the closing session, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Le Van Thanh said this was the first regional conference to co-build and adopt a call for action in implementing ECD in the region under the witness of children.
He expressed his hope that the Hanoi Call for Action would be chosen as a priority concerning solutions and actions that need to be accelerated, while serving as an important foundation for ECD cooperation between countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
During its four days of sitting, the 2019 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on ECD, which gathered more than 500 delegates from 35 countries and territories and 44 international organisations, discussed a number of important issues impacting the comprehensive development of children, ranging from the issuance of legal frameworks, the building of strategies and policies, the allocation of resources to technical solutions.
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Early childhood development (ECD) encompasses physical, socio emotional, cognitive and motor development between 0-8 years of age.
The early years are critical, because this is the period in life when the brain develops most rapidly and has a high capacity for change, and the foundation is laid for health and wellbeing throughout life.
Nurturing care – defined as care that is provided in a stable environment, that is sensitive to children’s health and nutritional needs, with protection from threats, opportunities for early learning, and interactions that are responsive, emotionally supportive and developmentally stimulating – is at the heart of children’s potential to develop.
ECD is a priority area of work for WHO, as it is a window of opportunity to improve health and equity.
A continuum of care – from preconception through the formative early years – is needed to safeguard and maximize children’s developmental outcomes.
The health sector has a key role to play. It has the potential to reach many families and children during pregnancy, childbirth and early childhood, and is poised to deliver effective interventions for optimal development of young children.
In keeping with international policy standards, early childhood is defined as the period from prenatal development to eight years of age.
ECD has strong links to other social determinants of health, particularly Urban Systems, Gender, Globalization, and Health Care Services.
Our efforts concentrate on implementing corporate policies that improve early learning, child and maternal health, child care, protection, play, and nutrition.
These early years are critical because it’s the time when our brains are developing most quickly—forming more than one million connections each second—laying the foundations for the rest of a child’s life.
In order to prepare our youngest learners to be successful primary school pupils, we’ve created a carefully structured early childhood development (ECD) programme that supports the youngest pupils to achieve academic learning alongside developing socio-emotional, psychomotor and creative skills.
It’s important to make sure that formal academic instruction is started at an early age because there is growing evidence of gains in later schooling because of early mastery of core foundational literacy and numeracy skills.
In ECD classes it’s important that new ideas are reinforced in a variety of ways.
Routine classes help youngsters fully get to grips with basic concepts by reminding them in different ways of lessons and ideas that they have been previously taught.
the reason that we aim to devote 50% of our ECD pupils time in school to academic instruction is to give them enough opportunity to achieve a strong foundation in literacy and numeracy which is essential as they progress through school.
An incredibly important part of ECD classes is learning how to decode and read.
Core reading and reading routine lessons teach phonemic awareness by teaching children to focus on, manipulate and break apart the sounds in words.
Both reading and language—when paired with their respective routines—map back from the core literacy skills we want pupils to master upon completing upper kindergarten letter sounds, familiar word reading and non-word reading.
These are essential skills for children to develop and so there is dedicated time in our ECD programme.
An important part of this is that teachers are trained so that they are responsible for motivating all children to behave well and work hard.
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