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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,
E
ducation
&
L
iteracy
D
epartment (E&LD),
Government of Sindh
Key Note Speakers: Dr. Ghazala Rafique
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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”
Baela Raza Jamil
–
Coordinator SAFED/ Director Programs ITA
"ARNEC’s
Engagement on ECED in Post 2015 Development Agenda” |
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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 &
Zehra
Arshad,
Chairperson,
Pakistan Coalition
for Education (PCE)
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
Sindh: Ms. Saba Mahmood Chief Program Manager,
Reform Support Unit, E&LD
Govt of Sindh
“
An intervention of Early Childhood Education in Sind
h
–
From
Policy to Implementation”
Baluchistan
: Dr. Kamal
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ud
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din, Deputy Focal Person Capacity building and
S
pecialist ECED,
DoE
Balochistan
Punjab:
Mr.
Muhammad
Shahid Saleem
,
Deputy Director (Planning),
Directorate
of Staff Development
“
Status of teachers training on ECE”
Islamabad Capital Territory(ICT): Professor Muhammad Rafique Tahir, Joint
Secretary Education, Capital Administration Development Division
(CA
DD)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
: Abid Ullah Kaka Khe
l,
Director
Education Sector Reform
Unit (
ESRU
)
/Deputy Secretary Education, Elementary and Secondary Education
KP
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”
Srilanka: Badra Padmakanthi Withanage
, Director of Education, Ministry of
Education Srilanka
Nepal: Dr.
Shanta Dixit
,
Director and Co
-
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
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Curriculum and Standards
Chair and Co-Chair TBD
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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
Ms. Ambreena
Ahmed , Assistant Director, Teacher Resource Center Ahmed
“
TRC story of the National ECE Curriculum 2002
-
2007”
Ms. Nargis Sultana, Senior Education Advisor Open Society Foundations (OSF)
Critical Thinking in
Early&Development
Abrar Shahwani,
Project Coordinator, Save the Children
“Assessments and research around Literacy Boost Program under Balochistan
Education Program (BEP)”
Tamsila Shah, Manager Child Development and Research, Save
the Children
“Synergies of ECCE projects with ECCE National Curriculum and ELDs”
Sindh
Curriculum and Standards
Technical Working Group (TWG)
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 4 |
3:45 - 5:15
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Teachers Preparation (Pre and in-service)
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Moderator
: Audrey
D
’
Souza
Juma
Director,
Notre
Dame Institute of
Education
(NDIE)
Chair: Dr.
Samir
Nath Ranjan
–
BRAC Bangladesh |
Panelists 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”
Dr.
Shanta Dixit ,
Director and Co
-
Founder of Rato Bangala School (RBS)
“
Training teachers to implement holistic lessons in the classroom”
Dr. Zaira Wahab, Head of Doctrol Program, Iqra University
“
Teacher Attitudes, Biases, Stereotypes and Myths in ECD
Classrooms”
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 5 |
5:15 - 5:45
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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
;
Curriculum & Standards, T
eacher
s
preparation
(pre ad in
-
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
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Moderator
: Dr. Ghazala
Rafique
-
Interim
Director Aga Khan
University
-
Human
Development Program,
Asia
-
Pacific Regional
Network for Early
Childhood (
ARNEC
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Chair
: Badra
Padmakanthi
Withanage
, Director of
Education,
Ministry of
Education Srilanka |
Panelists
Sandeep
,
Sharma,
Research Associate,
Centre for Early Childhood
Education and Development (CECED), Ambedkar University, Delhi
“
Readiness for School, Impact for ECED”
Audrey
D’Souza Juma ,
Director at Notre Dame
Institute of Education
“
Gender Discourses and Teacher
-
Talk: Re
-
conceptualizing
Teachers' Roles
in Promoting Gender Equity in Pakistani Early C
hildhood Classrooms
”
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
”
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
-
Founder of Rato Bangla
School, Nepal |
Panelists
Sindh Education Foundation
– Early Learning Program
Sudeshna Sengupta, Senior Advocacy Manager, Mobile Creches
–
India “Innovative Responses to Challenges on the Ground”
Mehnaz Aziz
,
Founding Director, Children’s Global Network, Pakistan “
Innovations: Demand and Supply
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A case of district level delivery
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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”
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
,
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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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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