What We Do.

Develop a unified child protection system for Abu Dhabi that offers coherent strategies for preventing abuse and neglect, reporting cases efficiently and effectively and providing treatment and rehabilitation as needed.

Design and implement interventions to ensure Abu Dhabi has a high quality Early Childhood Development workforce with sufficient skills and in sufficient numbers to ensure the effective implementation and delivery of the Abu Dhabi ECD Strategy 2035.

Equip parents and primary caregivers with the knowledge, skills and resources needed to build their capabilities to promote the healthy development of their children. This includes interventions to foster positive interactions and effective parenting and caregiver practices, eliminate misconceptions, enhance their ability to detect potential developmental delays or medical concerns, and provide professional resources for all of the above.

Enhance Abu Dhabi's liveability for young children and caregivers by fostering positive behavioral shifts and ensuring public spaces are healthy, safe, and accessible to all families. This will be achieved through interventions to adapt existing infrastructure and public spaces to the needs of families and establishing new public spaces focused on providing opportunities for children's development.

This program aims to nurture cultural identity in a positive way among young children, to create a sense of social cohesion and collective belonging in Abu Dhabi. This will be achieved through interventions both aiming to reinforce shared values and unity among the diverse cultures of Abu Dhabi children, and through educating all young children on the Emirati culture. For Emirati children in particular, the latter will extend to interventions reinforcing and strengthening their Emirati identity and values.

Increase the volume and quality of actionable research on local ECD research to stimulate and enhance an active and sustainable ECD research ecosystem which generates knowledge in alignment with local needs and priorities.

Execute a dedicated process for ECD-related policy and legislation development that is proactive, iterative, participatory, evidence- based and has strong impact-assessment, enforcement, and implementation components. In addition, review and influence current policies and legislation and propose policies as required to fill existing ECD-related gaps, promote high-quality services and strong child outcomes.

Develop and implement systems and platforms to collect, track and monitor and evaluate data to provide policy-relevant, actionable insights about children, parents, the ECD workforce, and ECD services. Additionally, enable an innovative private sector ecosystem to deliver relevant ECD products and services.

Lead efforts to enhance awareness of the importance of the early years, build the capabilities of parents and other adults to support child well-being, and foster changes in behavior to benefit children. Additionally, promote and facilitate active engagement and partnerships between all relevant stakeholders within Abu Dhabi’s ECD ecosystem.