GLOBAL LEADERS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD

Thereza Marcílio Gustavo Amora

Brazil

Premises Talking/listening Playing Nurturing/Care Safe/interesting spaces

Evaluation We should focus less on people inside the

network and try to reach people outside the network;

We made a political/institutional evaluation of the brazilian scenery trying to find opportunities, strengths, challenges.

As a result we saw the Ministry of Culture as an opportunity and the Council of Rights of the Childhood as a challenge.

Strategies Focus on partnerships: ABMP, MS,

MEC,SAE (Brazil 2022), State Networks: Ceará and Pernambuco Advocacy Comunication with focus on Internet Working Groups:- 9 years basic education - Educational cities- Violence against children

Advocacy Monitoring Congress and Advocacy

actions Monitoring and influencing Media:

Boletim Primeira Infância em Primeiro Lugar

Monitoring Social Networks and building partnerships on the Internet

Strengthening international alliances and building regional alliances

Case: PLS 414/09 It is a project of a bill to obligate children

five years of age to enter elementary school;

Context: the basic education system of 9 years and a semantic misunderstanding;

The interest of parents on learning how to read and write instead of playing and development

Wide Range of partners = Strong Social Mobilization

The alliance produced technical documents, organized meetings with representatives in the Congress and within the Ministry of Education

Online petition with thousands of signatures (change.org)

Public hearings in the National Congress (both houses)

Releases and demanding on traditional media Self organized events on States Great mobilizations in Brasília during the public

hearings

Result The Senator Flávio Arns invited us for a meeting in

his office obvioulsy trying to persuade us to support his bill.

After the political scenery created by the first public hearing on Senate, he offered a proposal of agreement in which he retrieved a few points compared to the initial one.

It was late, there was a consensus against his bill and the deputies decided to create a new project in partnership with the Alliance to solve the semantic problem.

Global Leaders Project: Advocacy for Early Childhood - Experiences and Strategies

Purpose: To help building narratives and reflections in order to articulate and disseminate successful practices of Advocacy.

Strategy: - Authors: people with inspiring experiences of

advocacy inside and outside Brazil- Publishing in three languages, Portuguese,

English and Spanish Target readers- The book can be used by anyone for capacity

building in advocacy and to raise awareness of government on the issue of early childhood.

The Book 9 articles. 2000 copies. Distribution: NGO, Governmental Agencies, Private

Foundations and Institutes, and Global Leaders. Authors:- Isabella Henriques and Ana Neca - Alana InsituteSubject:

The Experience of the Project Children and Consuming- Ana Luiza Buratto e José Carlos Meireles: Mapping public

policy and municipal services on early childhood and their families.

- Iracema Nascimento: The right to education starts in the crib and it is for the whole life.

- Maria Thereza Marcílio e Mônica Sâmia: Quality indicators for Early Childhood Education: Of which quality are we talking about

Maria de Jesus Ribeiro: Early Childhood Education: An Interinstitutional action in the State of Ceará.

Gustavo Amora: What is the impact of Internet Social Networks for Advocacy

Vital Didonet: Social Participation in achieving, defending and promoting children’s rights

Alison Maher and Ellen Hall: The Tensions Between Children’s Right to Participation and Children’s Right to Protection: Questions Considered at Boulder Journey School

Judith Evans and Youssef Hajjar: Creating Lasting Changes for Young Children: The Global Leader program of the World Forum Foundation

Advocacy in the Congress

Meetings

Conference

Public Hearing

Public Hearing

Press