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What We Do.
The Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority aims to promote child development and wellbeing through four sectors: Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Family Support, and Education and Early Care, from the initial stages of pregnancy to the age of eight.
Area of Our Focus
Family Support
Promote a stable and safe home environment by implementing more family support programs, providing services and resources, improving quality and standards of such programs, developing practitioner skills.
Health & Nutrition
Encourage children to adopt a healthy lifestyle by promoting healthy eating habits, physical activities, early screening, and treatment of health problems, while collecting data and conducting health research.
Early Care & Education
Improve early care and education quality, relevant standards, level of oversight, and control efforts by developing practitioner skills, implementing more relevant programs, and encouraging parents' engagement.
Child Protection
Develop a system ensures protecting children from harm and danger by raising public awareness about child abuse and neglect, developing practitioner skills, improving policies, and promoting children’s rights.
Family Support
Promote a stable and safe home environment by implementing more family support programs, providing services and resources, improving quality and standards of such programs, developing practitioner skills.
Health & Nutrition
Encourage children to adopt a healthy lifestyle by promoting healthy eating habits, physical activities, early screening, and treatment of health problems, while collecting data and conducting health research.
Early Care & Education
Improve early care and education quality, relevant standards, level of oversight, and control efforts by developing practitioner skills, implementing more relevant programs, and encouraging parents' engagement.
Child Protection
Develop a system ensures protecting children from harm and danger by raising public awareness about child abuse and neglect, developing practitioner skills, improving policies, and promoting children’s rights.
Who we are
We oversee the Early Childhood Development sector in Abu Dhabi with a mind that is committed to the highest standards and young children at the heart of all we do.
Our Role
We promote collaboration to help all of Abu Dhabi’s young children flourish.
Enabler
We broaden the capabilities of our partners to support holistic child development.
Policymaker
We develop coordinated and aligned policies and laws.
Knowledge Hub
We inform decision-making through research, data and evidence.
Disruptor
We transform how people think about and address the needs of young children.
Abu Dhabi's Early Childhood Development Strategy for 2035
Abu Dhabi wants to ensure children, parents, and caregivers have access to appropriate services to support optimal child development. It also aims to create a robust ecosystem to promote accountability and continuous quality improvement.
Strengthen the child protection system from prevention to rehabilitation
Develop a unified child protection system for Abu Dhabi that offers coherent strategies for preventing abuse and neglect, reporting cases efficiently and effectively, and providing treatment and rehabilitation as needed.
Enhance support for parents and primary caregivers
Equip parents and primary caregivers with the knowledge, skills and resources needed to build their capabilities to promote the healthy development of their children. This includes interventions to foster positive interactions and effective parenting and caregiver practices, eliminate misconceptions, enhance their ability to detect potential developmental delays or medical concerns, and provide professional resources for all of the above.
Create an Early Childhood Development policy and legislation ecosystem
Design a dedicated process for ECD-related policy and legislation development that is proactive, iterative, participatory, evidence-based and has strong enforcement and implementation components. In addition, review and adjust current policies and legislation and issue new policies or legislation as required to fill existing ECD-related gaps, promote high-quality services and strong child outcomes.
Develop a comprehensive human capital strategy
Develop a comprehensive strategy to ensure Abu Dhabi has a high-quality Early Childhood Development workforce with sufficient skills and in sufficient numbers to ensure the effective implementation and delivery of the Emirate’s ECD Strategy 2035.
Create systems and platforms to drive excellence and innovation
Create systems and platforms to collect, track and use data to provide up-to-date information about children, parents, the ECD workforce, and services as well as a high-functioning ECD monitoring and evaluation strategy to use the data to assess the quality of ECD services.
Develop a comprehensive research ecosystem
Develop and implement a high-functioning ECD research strategy to inform evidence-based policymaking and support planning and quality improvement.
Create a widespread public engagement strategy
Develop and launch a comprehensive, long-term public engagement strategy to enhance awareness of the importance of the early years, build the capabilities of parents and other adults to support child well-being, and foster changes in behavior to benefit children. To ensure widespread support and appreciation of ECD, the strategy will focus on parents, caregivers, practitioners, academics, professionals, businesses, policymakers, the general public and children.
Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority Board of Trustees
The inspiration behind our logo
As with all our work, we keep young children at the heart of all we do. And our logo is no exception. The icon forms the shape of a balancing child, implying stability and suggesting development, achievement, strength and growth. The logo, once rotated 90 degrees, also represents the first letters of the full name of the Authority in Arabic.
Our logo is also inspired by the typeface created by Nasri Khattar in the 1950s. He created it as a way to help make the Arabic language more accessible and easier to learn and won a Nobel Prize for this effort.
Secure
- Aware of surroundings and safely participates in community life
Safe From Harm and Danger
- Protected from sexual abuse
- Free from hazards in their physical environment
- Protected from physical abuse, neglect, violence, and exploitation
- Protected from psychological neglect and abuse
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