The
Director of SEAMEO CECCEP, Prof. Vina Adriany, PhD attended the Unesco World
Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education from 14-17 November 2022 in
Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The
World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education (WCECCE) is a UNESCO
intergovernmental meeting (Category II) that aims to reaffirm the right of
every young child to quality care and education from birth and urge Member
States’ renewed commitment to and investment in the Sustainable Development
Goal (SDG), Target 4.2 which calls for ensuring that “all girls and boys have
access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education
so that they are ready for primary education.”
She
was a speaker in a parallel session on parenting. She emphasized the need to go
beyond deficit models of parenting as well as an urgency to develop culturally
sensitive parenting models. She highlighted several parenting programs of
SEAMEO CECCEP, including mindful parenting and ethnoparenting. During her
visit, she also held a meeting with the Director of SEAMES, Dr. Ethel Venezuela
and an ambassador of the Indonesian embassy in Uzbekistan, Prof. Dr. Sunaryo
Kartadinata.
The
WCECCE resulted from a Tashkent Declaration. Indonesia was one of the members
of the drafting committee team for the Tashkent Declaration, along with the
other member states that included Uzbekistan, France, Ireland, Latvia, Yemen,
Palestine, Fiji, Senegal, Nigeria, and Brazil. The declaration pushes for more
public funding in ECCE to provide universal ECCE for all children, particularly
children from marginalized and vulnerable backgrounds.
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