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Presenters |
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SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS |
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Venita Kaul, Director of the School of Education Studies and of the Center for Early Childhood Education and
Development, Ambedkar University, Delhi |
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Mahmuda Akhter, Executive Director, Instute of Child & Human Development (ICHD) |
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Dr. Renu Singh,
Country Director, Young lives |
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Day 1 |
September 16th, 2014 |
Inaugural |
9:30 - 11:00 |
Opening: Welcome and Keynote Addresses |
Moderator:
Dr. Bernadette
Dean
Director
(VMIE) |
Tilawat
Presided
by the Chief Guest Dr. Fazalullah Pechuho
Additional Chief Secretary
(ACS), Education & Literacy
Department, Government of Sindh
Welcome by Ms. Saba Mahmood
,
Chief Program Manager
,
Reform Support Unit,
Education
&
Literacy
Department (E&LD),
Government of Sindh
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Dr. Ghazala Rafique -
Key Note Speaker
, Interim Director Aga Khan University
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Human Development Program,
Asia
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Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood
(
ARNEC
)
“ ECE in Pakistan
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Progress, Challenges and Prospects” |
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Baela Raza Jamil
–
Coordinator SAFED/ Director Programs ITA
"ARNEC’s
Engagement on ECED in Post 2015 Development Agenda” |
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Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest Dr. Fazalullah Pechuho ,
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS)
, Education & Literacy Department, Sindh |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Tea Break |
Session 1 |
11:30 - 1:15 |
Policy and RTE Status on Early Childhood Education |
Moderator: Amima
Sayeed, Education
Researcher
Chair: Muhammad
Irfan Khan Jadoon
,
Deputy Secretary,
Ministry of Federal
Education and
Professional
Training, ICT |
Panelists |
“ Status of ECE
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RTE, Policy and Sector Plan
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from Policy to
Implementation
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All provinces and ICT |
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Sindh: Ms. Saba Mahmood Chief Program Manager,
Reform Support Unit, E&LD
Govt of Sindh “
An intervention of Early Childhood Education in Sind
h
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From
Policy to Implementation” |
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Baluchistan
: Dr. Kamal
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ud
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din, Deputy Focal Person Capacity building and
S
pecialist ECED,
DoE
Balochistan |
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Punjab: Mr.
Muhammad
Shahid Saleem
,
Deputy Director (Planning),
Directorate
of Staff Development “
Status of teachers training on ECE” |
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Islamabad Capital Territory(ICT): Muhammad Irfan Khan Jadoon , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, ICT |
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
: Abid Ullah Kaka Khe
l,
Director
Education Sector Reform
Unit (
ESRU
)
/Deputy Secretary Education, Elementary and Secondary Education
KP |
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Bangladesh: Mr. Samir Nath Ranjan, Program Head, Educational Research Unit,
BRAC Bangladesh
“Comprehensive ECCD Policy in Bangladesh: evolution through
GO
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NGO Collaboration” |
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Srilanka: Badra Padmakanthi Withanage
, Director of Education, Ministry of
Education Srilanka |
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Nepal: Dr.
Shanta Dixit
,
Director and Co
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Founder of Rato Bangla School (RBS)
“Nepal: The Test of Early Childhood Education” |
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1:00 - 02:00 |
Lunch Break |
Session 2 |
2:00 - 3:30 |
Curriculum and Standards
Chair and Co-Chair TBD |
Moderator
: Ms
.
Rana Hussain
, Sindh Education
Education Sector
Support Program
(SESSP)
Chair: Saba
Mahmood
,
Chief
Program Manager
,
Reform Support
Unit, E
ducation
&
L
iteracy
Department
(E&
LD),
Government of
Sindh |
Panelists
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Ms. Ambreena
Ahmed , Assistant Director, Teacher Resource Center Ahmed “
TRC story of the National ECE Curriculum 2002
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2007” |
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Ms. Nargis Sultana, Senior Education Advisor Open Society Foundations (OSF) Critical Thinking in
Early&Development |
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Abrar Shahwani,
Project Coordinator, Save the Children “Assessments and research around Literacy Boost Program under Balochistan
Education Program (BEP)” |
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Abdul Qasim, Senior Program Manager, PEPAS, Battagram, Save the Children |
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Mr. Idrees Jatoi, Deputy Director,
Bureau of Curriculum and Extension Wing,
Government of Sindh
“Role of
Bureau
of Curriculum for Implementation of Early Childhood Education
in Sindh” |
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3:30 - 03:45 |
Tea Break |
Session 3 |
3:45 - 5:15 |
Teachers Preparation (Pre and in-service) |
Moderator
: Audrey
D
’
Souza
Juma
Director,
Notre
Dame Institute of
Education
(NDIE)
Chair: Dr.
Samir
Nath Ranjan
–
BRAC Bangladesh |
Panelists
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Key Note:
Teacher Preparation
for ECED : Dr. Bernadette Dean,
Director, Valy
Mohamed Institute for Education (VMIE), Karachi “Evolving Innovations: Developing quality professionals for the Early Years” |
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Dr.
Shanta Dixit ,
Director and Co
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Founder of Rato Bangala School (RBS)
“
Training teachers to implement holistic lessons in the classroom” |
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Dr. Zaira Wahab, Head of Doctrol Program, Iqra University “
Teacher Attitudes, Biases, Stereotypes and Myths in ECD
Classrooms” |
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Mr.
Qamar Shahid
, Director General Provincial Institute for Teacher’s Education
(PITE),
Teacher Education Group
“Teacher Preparation for ECE in Sindh” |
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Session 4 |
5:15 - 5:45 |
Formation of Groups and Key Announcements |
Facilitated by Ghulam Nabi ,
Senior
Program
Manager, Info and
Incentives, RSU,
E&LD, Government
of Sindh
and
Amima Sayee
d
(PCE) |
Five groups; Policy
& RTE Status
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Curriculum & Standards, T
eacher
s
preparation
(pre ad in
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service), Research & Assessment , Innovations: access,
parenting & materials) Review
Conference
Draft |
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Note: Dinner & Launch of Dubai Cares
Program in Pakistan
by Invitation
7:30
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9:30
pm
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Pearl Continental
Hotel
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Ball Room |
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Day 2 |
September 17th, 2014 |
Session 1 |
9:00 - 10:30 |
Research and Assessment |
Moderator
: Dr. Ghazala
Rafique
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Interim
Director Aga Khan
University
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Human
Development Program,
Asia
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Pacific Regional
Network for Early
Childhood (
ARNEC
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Chair
: Badra
Padmakanthi
Withanage
, Director of
Education,
Ministry of
Education Srilanka |
Panelists
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Sandeep, Sharma, Research Associate, Center of Early Childhood Education and Development (CECED), Ambedkar University, Delhi "Readiness
for School, Impact for ECED" |
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Audrey
D’Souza Juma ,
Director at Notre Dame
Institute of Education “
Gender Discourses and Teacher
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Talk: Re
-
conceptualizing
Teachers' Roles
in Promoting Gender Equity in Pakistani Early C
hildhood Classrooms
” |
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Mr. Tanveer, Director Provincial Education
Assessment Center,
Assessment and Learning
Standards, Education and Literacy Department,
Government of Sindh Samir Ranjan Nath,
Program Head, Educational Research Unit, BRAC
Bangladesh “
Assessment and Learning Standards
for ECE
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Purnima Ramanujan, Senior Research Associate at ASER Center India
“
Pathways and Learning in Early Years: Data from 3 districts of India" |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Tea Break |
Session 2 |
11:00 - 12:30 |
Innovations: Access, parenting and materials |
Moderator
: Mr. Aziz
Kabani, Managing
Director,
Sindh
Education Foundation
(SEF)
Chair
: Shanta Dixit,
Director and Co
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Founder of Rato Bangla
School, Nepal |
Panelists
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Sindh Education Foundation
– Early Learning Program |
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Sudeshna Sengupta, Senior Advocacy Manager, Mobile Creches
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India “Innovative Responses to Challenges on the Ground” |
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Seema Zia, Program Manager ECED, Children's Global Network |
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Mr. Muzzafaruddin, Country Representative, BRAC Pakistan |
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Mr. Ghulam Nabi ,
Senior Program Manager, Info and Incentives
, RSU,
E&LD
, Government of Sindh
“ECD/ECE in Pakistan
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Possibilities
and Priorities” |
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Sahar Saeed, Program Manager, ASER Pakistan, Pakistan /ITA
“Issues of
Access & Learning in Early Childhood Education: Emerging
Trends & Challenges from
ASER
Pakistan” |
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12:30 - 01:30 |
Lunch Break |
Session 3 |
1:30 - 4:00 |
Group Work |
Five groups to f
inalize recommendations and action steps
for the Karachi
consensus statement on ECED |
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Working Tea (during group work) |
Session 4 |
4:30 - 5:30 |
Concluding Session |
Moderator: Baela Raza Jamil
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Director Programs ITA
,
Coordinator
South Asia Forum for Education
Development |
Special Guest
–
Rana Mashood Ahmed Khan, Minister of Law, Education
and Youth and Sports
Affairs
and
Tourism
Govt. of Punjab
Dr. Muhammad Memon,
Hamid al
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Dinal
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Kirmani Professor in Education,
Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (AKU
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IED), “From Policy to Action through Partnership” Reflections from participants
(Provinces and International)
Karachi Declaration/Consensus on ECED & RTE in South Asia
Address by the Chief Guest
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Senior Minister
for
E
ducation
Nisar Ahmed
Khuhro
;
Adoption of
Karachi Declaration
Vote of Thanks |
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ECED Karachi Consensus Statement September 17, 2014 |
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Consensus Statement Drafters
- Dr. Bernadette Dean - VMIE
- Dr. Ghazala Rafique - AKU
- Mr. Zahid Jatoi – RSU
- Plan Pakistan -
- Audrey Juma – NDIE
- Rana Hussain – Consultant SESP – EU
- Baela Raza Jamil- ITA/SAFED /ARNEC
Displays
- TRC
- Sindh Education Foundation
- Plan Pakistan
- E&LD Sindh /School Education Department Punjab
- ITA
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