Monthly Spotlight – June 2021 Issue

Monthly Spotlight is an electronic publication of SEAMEO INNOTECH which features a certain research or learning program. For the month of June 2021, we featured one of the Policy Notes the Center has shared with the Department of Education.

In Southeast Asia, the marginalization of children remains a huge concern in achieving inclusive early childhood care and development (ECCD). Twenty-five million children living in multidimensional poverty (United Nations Children’s Fund East Asia and Pacific, 2019) are in a disadvantaged position to receive high-quality ECCD programs, and therefore not only is their growth and development at risk but, in the long run, that of society in general as well.