The Federal Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) launched the National Policy for Integrated Early Childhood Development (IECD) and IECD Minimum Standards for Early Childhood Centres in Nigeria.
Its great to know that Nigeria finally has a policy on early child education. One long term approach to our numerous economic and social challenges is education.
Only a population capable of critical thought can question the assumptions that have allowed corruption and bad leadership to continue to plague us and retard our development.
With a policy in place what we need now is a number of citizen sector organizations to actualize it. How will it work at the grassroots? How will standards be set and maintained?
If you think that the public sector can do that then think again. Endemic corruption ensures that no public sector project achieves its potential.
The business sector is profit oriented and as a result has the tendency to be exploitative when adequate sanctions are not enforced. The citizen sector despite its flaws is in the best position to achieve high impact results.
I really look forward to seeing a professional corp of citizen sector workers giving creative consideration to how we can use this policy to bring high impact results to the greatest number of people.
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Thanks for writing this.
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