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NEWS: Aga Khan University launches programme to promote early childhood development in Tanzania

Tue, May 3, 2022 | 4:10 pm

By Maureen Ooko, Communications Officer, Aga Khan University Institute for Human Development. The Aga Khan University’s Institute for Human Development (IHD) and Institute for Educational Development East Africa (IED, EA) have launched a programme that seeks to fill the prevailing gaps that hinder healthy child development. Research shows that millions of children from Low and […]

NEWS: Aga Khan University advocates for empowerment of community health volunteers to promote early childhood development

Wed, Apr 13, 2022 | 10:52 am

By Maureen Ooko, Communications Officer, Aga Khan University Institute for Human Development. Aga Khan University’s Institute for Human Development, IHD is promoting advocacy efforts geared towards supporting Community Health Volunteers, CHVs. Through a conference that brought together local and regional organisations that support Early Childhood Development interventions, the Institute held discussions around policy recommendations for […]

NEWS: Aga Khan University urges Policy Makers to invest in Early Childhood Development

Wed, Mar 9, 2022 | 7:56 pm

By Maureen Ooko, Communications Officer, Aga Khan University Institute for Human Development. The Aga Khan University’s Institute for Human Development, (AKU-IHD), held a policy makers workshop for health and education county directors of various counties constituting the Frontier Counties Development Council (FCDC) consortium’ in Kenya. The workshop is one of the courses under AKU-IHD’s ECD […]

VIDEO: Aga Khan University launches the ECD Workforce Online Hub

Fri, Nov 5, 2021 | 11:00 am

The ECD workforce virtual hub seeks to advance the well-being of children and families globally. Launched by the Aga Khan University’s Institute for Human Development, the hub intends to achieve its goal by providing relevant information, courses and trainings to caregivers, frontline workers, policymakers, practitioners and other key stakeholders in Early Childhood Development. Click on […]