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Title: Country Profiles for Early Childhood Development: Africa [2025 Updates]
Language: English
Authors: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Data and Analytics
Source: UNICEF. 2025.
Availability: UNICEF. 3 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. Tel: 212-326-7000; Fax: 212-887-7465; Web site: http://www.unicef.org/education
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 78
Publication Date: 2025
Sponsoring Agency: Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Document Type: Reports - Descriptive
Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Benchmarking, Profiles, Poverty, Child Health, Nutrition, At Risk Persons, Demography, Environmental Influences, Young Children, Data Collection, Statistical Data, Childrens Rights, Treaties, International Law
Geographic Terms: Africa
Laws, Policies and Program Identifiers: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Abstract: These profiles are an important step towards establishing a monitoring and accountability system for early childhood development (ECD), affiliated with the Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (www.countdown2030.org). The decision to assemble available data in country profiles was first taken by authors of the Lancet series 'Advancing Early Childhood Development: From Science to Scale', during its 2016 launch. The initiative was carried forward by a subgroup supporting the Nurturing Care Framework developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and partners. The profiles are an attempt to compile, in one place, the available data for country and cross-country monitoring and to provide a baseline against which progress can be monitored. More comparable country data and analysis are needed to propel the early childhood development agenda, monitor impact, direct attention to areas requiring additional effort and resources, and measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Progress is being made, and opportunities exist for further analyses with currently available data. For example, with adequate resources, country micro-data could be disaggregated further. Nevertheless, the country profiles draw attention to significant gaps, especially in extracting data pertaining to the youngest children and measuring services to improve nurturing care. It is hoped that the country profiles will prompt advocacy and action to refine measurement parameters and to collect comparable country data. A full set of profiles for 197 countries are updated and released every two years. This regional package includes profiles for the 54 countries on the African continent. This publication also includes profiles for the 5 regions as defined by the African Union: Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa and Western Africa. The countries within each region are listed on the regional profiles. [These profiles have been prepared in collaboration with Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health and the Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development Metrics Joint Technical Working Group of the Countdown to 2030.]
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