CG's NEW Advocacy Messages

• Start at the Beginning
• Get Ready for Success
• Improve Primary School Quality
• Include Early Childhood in Policies

Key Publications

• Coordinators' Notebook:
  A Global Call to Action for Early Childhood
• New Resources

Upcoming Key Events

• Global Campaign for Education: Global Action Week, Apr. 21 - 27
• Int'l. Symposium on the Impact of Conflict on the Health of Young Children, May 5-6, Hawaii
• Working Forum on Men in ECE,
  May 20, Hawaii

News:

• Newly released, the State of the World's Mother's Report 2008 looks at child and mother well-being in 146 countries and concludes that more than 200 million children worldwide do not survive to the age of 5
  
• New Lancet Series on Maternal/Child Undernutrition highlights negative consequences of undernutrition during first 2 years of life.  Lancet Commentary suggest policies to reduce undernutrition include child development
• 2008 EFA Global Monitoring Report, "Education for all by 2015: Will we make it?" Highlights Early Childhood as a priority area of focus