All the resources stored here have been created by ISSA Members or ISSA Secretariat in partnership with Members or partners.
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This paper focuses on maternal andperinatal healthcare – the period from pregnancy to the first year after birth. A mother’s own physical and mental health and wellbeing can affect a child’s physical and cognitive development. Adversity during pregnancy and the first years of life can... Published in: 2022 Language: English Contact: Dr. Mihaela Ionescu, mionescu@issa.nl; Francesca Colombo, fcolombo@issa.nl |
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Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children under six years of age play a fundamental role in laying strong foundations for lifelong learning and wellbeing, especially in the first three years of life. Quality ECEC services can make an extraordinary difference in children’s... Published in: 2022 Language: English Contact: Dr. Mihaela Ionescu, mionescu@issa.nl; Francesca Colombo, fcolombo@issa.nl |
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The Child Guarantee is an opportunity to increase public investment in early childhood development services and support, with both domestic resources and EU funding. It is an opportunity to develop comprehensive, integrated, cross-department policies and strategies that support families and... Published in: 2022 Language: English Contact: Dr. Mihaela Ionescu, mionescu@issa.nl; Francesca Colombo, fcolombo@issa.nl |
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First Years First Priority Campaign Country Profiles share data collected by national campaign coordinators in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, and Spain. Each Profile provides a snapshot of the current state of ECD within the country and includes sections... Published in: 2021 Country: Bulgaria, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain Language: English Contact: Dr. Mihaela Ionescu (mionescu@issa.nl), Francesca Colombo (fcolombo@issa.nl) |
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The Gender Transformative Parenting Training Resource Package for frontline workers from different sectors was created in partnership with UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO). The package provides evidence-based information, recommendations, and training... Published in: 2023 Organization(s): UNICEF, ISSA Country: Global Language: English Contact: Zorica Trikic, ztrikic@issa.nl; Ayca Alayli, aalayli@issa.nl |
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InTrans project aims to support professionals through action at the policy, advocacy and training levels to ensure that all children and families experience warm and inclusive transitional practice in ECEC and school. This project initiated the debate on curricula alignment of different... Published in: 2023 Language: English Contact: Katrien van Laere, katrien.van.laere@vbjk.be |
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Play for Inclusion - A handbook and activity cards for non-formal services supporting young refugee children and families The ‘Play for Inclusion’ Handbook and Activity Cards is a resource for... Published in: 2022 Organization(s): ICDI Country: Not country specific Language: Croatian, English, Slovak, Ukrainian Contact: Giulia Cortellesi, giulia@icdi.nl |
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This toolkit on inclusive community-based ECEC is divided into a Handbook & Activity Cards. The toolkit is designed for practitioners in non-formal educational settings who work with children 0-8 years old and are interested in... Published in: 2023 Organization(s): ICDI Country: Not country specific Language: English, Slovak, Ukrainian Contact: Giulia Cortellesi, giulia@icdi.nl |
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Therapeutic Stories: "The Princess Doll", "Robbie the Space Explorer", "The song of the Nightingales" This collection of therapeutic stories was developed to help Ukrainian children that have been displaced by the war deal with the disruptions they... Published in: 2022 Organization(s): Neohumanist Education Association Country: Romania Language: Russian, Ukrainian, English Contact: Didi A. Devapriya, didi@amurtel.ro |
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"Let's Play" Activity Cards - Play-based activities for healing and learning The "Let’s Play" Activity Cards contain play-based activities developed to stimulate and support children whose play has been affected by the war in Ukraine. The content... Published in: 2022 Organization(s): ISSA Language: Bulgarian, Czech, English, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian Contact: Aljosa Rudas, arudas@issa.nl; Zorica Trikic, ztrikic@issa.nl |
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Children’s right to play, leisure and education is threatened during and after emergency situations. Many young children living in refugee homes arrive in their host country after a dangerous journey, and potentially traumatic experiences. Life has changed, and the new living environment is... Published in: 2022 Organization(s): ISSA, UNICEF Language: Bulgarian, English, German, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian Contact: Zorica Trikic, ztrikic@issa.nl |
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The "European Qualification Framework of Diversity Ambassador in ECEC environments” has been developed with the aim to improve ECEC HR management, to profile critical knowledge, skills and attitudes required to respond to individual and group needs of children from different backgrounds and with... Published in: 2022 Organization(s): Diversity+ Language: Slovak, Bulgarian, Czech, English, Italian Contact: Zorica Trikic, ztrikic@issa.nl |
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Parenting on the Move (PoM) has been developed to help parents create an environment of resilience, well-being, and education for kindergarten and school age children during situations of migration and refugeehood. PoM offers psychosocial support, education, and entertainment, as well as... Published in: 2022 Organization(s): CIP-Center for Interactive Pedagogy, Save the Children North West Balkans Language: Arabic, English, Farsi Contact: Milena Mihajlović, milena@cipcentar.org |
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Under the initiative Preschool Online Learning Community, CIP-Center for Interactive Pedagogy partnered with... Published in: 2022 Country: Serbia Language: Serbian, English Contact: Milena Mihajlović, milena@cipcentar.org |
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CIP-Center for Interactive Pedagogy partnered with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological... Published in: 2022 Country: Serbia Language: Albanian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Farsi, Hungarian Contact: Milena Mihajlović, milena@cipcentar.org |
All the resources stored here have been created by ISSA Members or ISSA Secretariat in partnership with Members or partners.
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Inclusive Resource Centers (IRC) in five sites in four regions were developed under the programme supported by USAID. Their main purpose is to provide complex inter-sectorial support to children with special needs, their parents and teachers working with these children in pre-school and primary... Organization(s): Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation Country: Ukraine Language: English Contact: Natalia Sofiy, nsofiy@gmail.com |
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The Growing Together project consisted of three parts: improving preschool education practices by using the ISSA Principles of Quality Pedagogy and parent and community involvement; building community and partnerships at the primary school level, and parental education. The project's results... Organization(s): Community Foundation Step by Step Country: Kazakhstan Language: English Contact: Dina Aidzhanova, daidzhan@mail.ru |
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Inclusion of a course on the ISSA Principles of Quality Pedagogy for fourth year students at the Kazakh Women's University in Almaty, and three methodological training centres in Kysyforda, Zhambul, and Semey regions with co-financing. Organization(s): Community Foundation Step by Step Country: Kazakhstan Language: English Contact: Dina Aidzhanova, daidzhan@mail.ru |
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Family Resource Centres were established in Kyzyforda, Zhambul and Semey in Kazakhstan to assist families whose children were not attending preschool (typically poor families). The centers welcomed children and families to prepare them for primary school. The parents received information on... Organization(s): Community Foundation Step by Step Country: Kazakhstan Language: English Contact: Dina Aidzhanova, daidzhan@mail.ru |
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Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) services started to develop in Ukraine as an initiative of NGO organizations in 2000. During the last years, ECI has been actively developing in several Ukrainian regions. A Consortium of Ukrainian and international organizations started in 2008 lobbying for... Organization(s): SOFT Tulip Foundation Country: the Netherlands Language: English Contact: Eric Bloemkolk, eric.bloemkolk@softtulip.nl |
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Novi Sad Intersectorial Network for Children (NSMEDE) is a local inter-sectorial network aiming to provide a strategic and systematic framework for improving the position of children in Novi Sad. Through the establishment of a flexible model of inter-sectorial cooperation among actors at the... Organization(s): Know How Centre Country: Serbia Language: English Contact: Tatjana Lazor Obradović, tatjana.lazor@gmail.com |
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The practice Supporting the early development of children in informal Roma settlements aims to improve the social inclusion of children aged birth to six and their families. The Know How Centre organizes activities aimed at enriching Roma parents' skills living in settlements to provide quality... Organization(s): Know How Centre Country: Serbia Language: English Contact: Milenka Matic, cpzvns@gmail.com |
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The Learning Together project has created a network of 15 Centres for Peer Support, which provide a platform for mutual learning across institutions. This platform provides peer support across eight kindergartens and eight primary schools to help improve the competences of teachers, create... Organization(s): Step by Step Country: Czech Republic Language: English Contact: Jana Schierlová, jana.schierlova@sbscr.cz |
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The Learning Centers Network initiated by Balkan Sunflowers connects 40 Learning Centers managed by different NGOs in Albania. These centers include preschool services, curriculum support, literacy and science programs, and an education mediator targeting the most vulnerable children and their... Organization(s): Balkan Sunflowers Country: Kosovo Language: English Contact: Muhamet Arifi, muhamet_arifi@balkansunflowers.org |
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Aflatot: Early childhood education for sustainable development. This study took place in the following countries: Albania, Serbia, Slovakia, Kenya, Zambia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, India and the Philippines to document the effects of the Aflatot programs on social emotional outcomes for young... Organization(s): Aflatoun International Country: the Netherlands Language: English Contact: Tetiana van Waveren-Valkova, tetiana@aflatoun.org |
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The purpose of the Together Old and Young (TOY) Programme is to promote intergenerational learning and to create new possibilities for older adults and young children to learn together and benefit from each others’ company. People are living longer but older adults and young children are having... Organization(s): International Child Development Initiatives ICDI Country: the Netherlands Language: English Contact: Margaret Kernan, margaret@icdi.nl |
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A functioning model for multi-stakeholders collaboration at municipality level to work with Romani communities is developed to improve the responsiveness and accountability of local authorities, particularly elected and senior civil servants towards marginalized Roma communities and to build the... Organization(s): Wide Open School Country: Slovakia Language: English Contact: Miroslav Sklenka, miroslav.sklenka@gmail.com |
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Mektebim is a women-led, child-centred, community-based, inclusive preschool business. Our mission Published in: 2018 Organization(s): United Aid For Azerbaijan (UAFA) Country: Azerbaijan Language: Azerbaijani, English Contact: Sabina Aghayeva sabina.aghayeva@uafa.az |
