The MANDELA model for Early Childhood Education and Care



The MANDELA model for Early Childhood Education and Care is a framework to place inclusivity at the heart of practice with babies, children, and families. It recognises the importance of relationships and belonging and ensuring environments reflect this. It also acknowledges that if we change the start of the journey, we can change educational outcomes for children that can impact across their life course.

Date: 28-09-2023

ISSA Members provide insight into the TOY for Inclusion approach and methodology

ISSA Connects for Learning 2023 kicked off with the TOY for Inclusion project results presented by ISSA Member International Child Development Initiatives.

Date: 31-08-2023

Diversity+ provides complete set of tools for ECEC professionals

Over the past three years, the Diversity+ project has provided a set of tools to help ECEC professionals develop inclusive, bias-free, and diversity-friendly practices and environments.

Date: 09-06-2023

United Aid for Azerbaijan Empowers Women Entrepreneurs to Open Inclusive Preschools

The Mektebim program aims to increase access to preschool for children aged two through six in Azerbaijan. 

Date: 22-05-2023

ISSA Welcomes a New member: CEF “School for All”, Kazakhstan

CEF “School for All” hopes to collaborate and build partnerships, share the information, promote good practices, design and apply joint proposals to the international organizations.

Date: 07-03-2023

Program package to support children and families in situations of migration

CIP-Center for Interactive Pedagogy’s ready-to-use program provides materials to nurture wellbeing and resilience for families in migration.

Date: 13-01-2023

New tool empowers school leaders to develop inclusive school cultures

A new tool focused on empowering Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for school leadership to create inclusive school cultures was recently released through the HEAD: Empowering School Principals for Inclusive School Culture project.

Date: 06-10-2022

Meet new ISSA Member: NestingPlay

Based in Hungary, NestingPlay is a social enterprise that focuses on empowering adults to support children with developmental delays through play.

Date: 07-08-2022

Webinar: Enabling responsive early childhood strategies: the Primokiz Approach for Local Governments

The Primokiz approach has proved to be a successful vehicle for building a sustainable infrastructure of cross-sector capacity at the local level, backed-up by political support and funding able to shape and implement early childhood strategies and plans rooted in the needs of the communities.

Date: 28-10-2021

Diversity+ Charter: Supporting First Steps Towards Diversity Positive ECEC Services

The Diversity+ project provides ECEC professionals, managers and practitioners with governance, benchmarking, recognition and professionalization tools to help them transform their practice and open up to diversity that exists among children and families.