Goal: to transform Addis Ababa by improving access to high-quality early childhood services and improving its urban environment and services to create friendlier public spaces and experiences for infants, toddlers, young children, and their caregivers.
Brief description:The initiative includes parent coaching programmes through regular house visits by urban health extension professionals and social workers, as well as expanding access to day care centres, preschools, outdoor playgrounds, and twice-monthly access to health and social support services. The freeing of women’s time and the role of investment in care work are some of the emerging results from the initiative.
*Ethiopia plans to establish an ECD Centre of Excellence in Addis Ababa with the aim of advancing ECD best practices and policies at the federal and regional levels; improve the capacities, skills and competencies of the early childhood care workforce; influence policy direction; and forge strong links for a sustainable ECD sub-sector within Ethiopia and across the African continent.