Recently, six ISSA Members joined a Primokiz training in Romania. The Step by Step Center for Quality in Education shares the network benefit of this workshop.

In February 2023, ISSA trainers and teams from countries already implementing the Primokiz approach provided a training to four additional ISSA Member organizations on the Primokiz methodology.

The year 2022 has brought new opportunities and challenges for the ISSA Network, being marked above all, by the war in Ukraine.

The ISSA team has worked on the global mapping of gender-responsive and transformative parenting and in-depth desk research to develop a report for all UNICEF Regional Offices.  

The proposed revision to the Barcelona targets aims to close the gender employment gap, while enhancing the social and cognitive development of children — particularly those in vulnerable situations or from disadvantaged backgrounds.

In partnership with Save the Children and Amazon, the International Step by Step Association will distribute 195,000 copies of three children’s story books in Ukrainian, from ISSA’s Reading Corner series.

The policy exchange organized by the InTrans project consortium in cooperation with BUPL (Danish Union of Early Childhood and Youth Educators).

As a partner of the Diversity+ project, ISSA hosted a two-day transnational meeting in its Leiden office on Thursday, 12 and Friday 13 May.

World Children’s Day is celebrated in an effort to promote awareness of children’s wellbeing and rights around the globe. November 20^th is the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

A Cirle of Friends training took place near Zagreb this summer as Open Academy Step by Step invited 20 participants to share their knowledge on this highly effective approach.