Date: 20-03-2023

Supporting local governments to build comprehensive early childhood services – experience from Slovenia

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.

Date: 16-03-2023

Four additional ISSA Member organizations receive training on the Primokiz approach

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.

Date: 20-12-2022

Message from the ISSA Secretariat

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

Date: 19-12-2022

ISSA supports new gender transformative parenting research and training

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.  

Date: 12-09-2022

ISSA contributes to European Commission’s proposal on revision of the Barcelona Targets

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

Date: 11-08-2022

Amazon, ISSA, and Save the Children partner to distribute story books in Ukrainian

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.

Date: 17-05-2022

InTrans Exchange Week: an encouraging meeting for seeds of change in ECEC systems

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

Date: 17-05-2022

Diversity+ project meeting, Leiden

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

Date: 19-11-2018

NEWS - Children Speak out on Children's Day

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

Date: 20-08-2018

NEWS - Open Academy Step by Step Endorses ‘Circle of Friends’

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.