COUNTRY EXAMPLES ON INTEGRATION OF PEACEBUILDING INTO ECD
Philippines
There are ECD centres in Zamboanga Sibugay and Albarka in Basilan that provide sessions on
Peace building for parents with preschool-aged children. Plan supported a local partner in
the development of modules through a workshop facilitated by a clinical psychologist
specialized in armed-conflict settings. Two sets of training were conducted, 1st was training
of trainers participated by the daycare workers, Municipal Social Welfare and Development
Officer, Municipal Health Officer. 2nd training was the skills enhancement training focusing
on “Heal 3-5 module”. So far, they have trained 47 Day Care Workers, 4 MSWOs, 4 MHOs,
and 7 staffs from the Integrated Resource Development for Tri-People (IRDT) -- all of them
considered caregivers.
Part of this ECD project, a training for parents was organized particularly the mothers for the
following reasons:
1. Integration of peacebuilding is significant to any type of humanitarian and
community development projects, especially in conflict-affected communities. The
peacebuilding effort is of great help in mobilizing people in the community.
2. Part of the sustainability mechanism for the project. The parents particularly the
mothers are the primary caregivers to their children. They can sustain the support
even after the project’s life and they can apply the same to other children in need.
A total of 59 mothers group organized in 31 ECD Centres. Each group composed of 15-20
mothers, regularly attending the session.
Contact Person: Beverly.Bicaldo@plan-international.org
Bosnia
They have introduced Peace Education curriculum in preschool education organized in
Integrated ECD Centers which are inclusive and innovative services for Bosnia and
Herzegovina, focused on families and children from socially excluded and hard to reach
areas such as poor, Roma and returnees.
Apart of integrated ECD services, Peace Education is incorporated into existing curricula for
Preschool Teachers at the University.
Peace education is provided to children but also to their parents. In the context of Bosnia
which is the post war country, education of parents in peace is the key for their parenting
skills but also for peace building and reconciliation in the country.
They have developed two teacher manuals which are for children 3 to 5 and 6 to 7 based on
Spanish Peace education material, and had supported TOT along to continued training of
preschool teachers
Contact person: Selena Bajraktarevic, Health and ECD Officer – UNICEF