Initiative on Early Childhood Care and Education - Ethiopia Case

This work explores the introduction of the National Policy on Early Childhood Care and Education in Ethiopia from the early childhood 'educators' and 'policymakers' perspectives. This research identified the need to study the introduction of ECCE as research into this topic. The purpose of this work is to understand the rationale behind this new initiative as well as exploring the issues of ¿implementation and ¿quality service delivery within the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE). .Findings covered in this work suggest that the policy ideas behind the introduction of ECCE were driven by availing education opportunity to ensure quality child care services and addressing long standing demands. One of the key findings in this research is that with the introduction of ECCE changes were observed and challenges were encountered as well. Some of the key challenges highlighted in this research were related to issues of quality and access, and lack of adequate budgetary allocation. Nonetheless, the findings in this research suggested that ECCE policy has been highly welcomed by all the stakeholders as an important step towards ensuring equality of access and quality provision.