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Nº Topic 01 Policies  Article Nº 47 of Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique  National Education Policy  National Social Action Policy 02 Legislation  Law nº 6/92, of 6 th May - Nacional Education System  Presidencial Decree Nº 7/2010 of 09 May - National holistic Strategy for Integrated Early Childhood Development  Law Nº 7/2008, of 09 th July - Promotion and Protection of Children Rigths, etc. 2

Nº Topic 02 Governance  Ministry of Education - Overall Coordination  Ministry of Women and Social Affairs  Ministry of Health  Ministry of Justice  Ministry of Interior  Ministry of agriculture  Ministry of Public Work  CSOs and Univerities 03 Financing  Government of Mozambique  Donors ( World Bank, UNICEF, USAID, Etc )  NGOs 3

Nº Topic 05 Participa tion and Achieveme nt  ECDE service providers - CSOs / NGOs  Beneficiaries - Community Based  Target group - Rural Children (0-5 years ) and parents and extended families.  Mozambique Early Childhood Development Program - operational implementation only start in Quality Assurance  ECDE services provided by - Third Part Providers through community based delivery model - based on Basic ECD Service Package ( BSP )  M & E and Quality assurance ( Continuous progress report, impacts evaluation, studies, supervision and technical field visits, operational researches, etc.)- MoE and Independent Verification Agent ( IVA )  Quality Assurance and M & E Tools and systems – Designed by MoE with support of Inter - ministerial ECD Commission. 4

Nº Topic 08 Practioner s and profession al developmen t  Third Party Provider - Based on BSP guideline train s and support the Community Coordination Committee ( responsible for management of ECD Center ) and ECD facilitators  ECD Facilitator s - recruited at community level and MoE pays the stipend s OUR MAIN CHALLENGES : Design quality assurance tools and systems that :  Take into account the auto evaluation, supervision and hetero-evaluation aspects of EDC programmes;  Measures the quality in all components of BSP(Curricula and Programmes, Materials, Teaching methods, ECD Centers Management, ECD Environment, Coordination with local entities and Community and parents engagement. 5