Global Commitments
Collective active to build bright futures for all children.
Childhood Education International is committed to collective action to build bright futures for all children. Toward this end, we have submitted official pledges to commit to work in refugee education and inclusive education.
Refugee Education Pledges
As part of the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in December 2023, Childhood Education International proudly announced pledges to provide support and resources for refugee education. Joining the pledges of other organizations and governments worldwide, we are working collectively to ensure that refugees have access to safe, quality, and relevant education opportunities and are included in national education systems.
Learn more about our Refugee Education Pledges.
Inclusive Education Pledges
CE International and the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) joined together to create collaborative commitments ahead of the Global Disability Summit in April 2025. Joining pledges from other organizations and governments, we are working to build a world that prioritizes disability-inclusive education and where children with disabilities have opportunities to the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children.
As part of the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in December 2023, Childhood Education International proudly announced pledges to provide support and resources for refugee education. Joining the pledges of other organizations and governments worldwide, we are working collectively to ensure that refugees have access to safe, quality, and relevant education opportunities and are included in national education systems.
Pledge 1: Supporting Educators’ Learning Journeys
Childhood Education International is committed to providing access to quality, holistic, continuous professional development for pre-primary through secondary school educators working in contexts of emergency, crisis, displacement, migration, and refugee settings and supporting refugees’ and (im)migrants’ pathways to entering the teaching profession within national education systems.
CE International pledges to support at least 20,000 educators’ learning journeys over the next 5 years through Open Educational Resources, workshops, webinars, communities of practice, and other opportunities created with teachers for teachers in alignment with national education initiatives and in collaboration with other INGOs, university teacher preparation programs, government ministries, and education leadership partners.
In 2024, CE International has supported professional learning for educators through workshops, webinars, events, multiple online community of practices, and hosted open educational resources. We have developed several long-term and short-term virtual and in-person learning opportunities for educators and have created and shared materials in order to reach a wider audience. Additionally, we host multiple virtual community of practice spaces to create connections between educators and resources.
Through this outreach, we estimate we have reached 10,663 educators — about 53% of our five-year pledge in one year.
Pledge 2: Sharing Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Inclusive Education Resources with a Global Network
CE International is committed to advocating for and increasing awareness about the importance of integrating inclusive early childhood development and education and early intervention in inter-sectoral responses to crises and displacement to ensure that the youngest children from refugee, displaced, and host communities have access to national and local systems that support quality, holistic, and inclusive early childhood services that uphold child rights and promote safety and protection.
Through our communications platforms and publications, CE International will reach a global network of at least 15,000 child development leaders, educators, and other education leaders in the next 5 years through the distribution of resources, events, and reports featuring the importance of early childhood development and education and early intervention as it relates to contexts of crises and displacement.
In 2024, CE International shared resources through our Open Educational Resource Library, social media platforms, email lists, online communities, and the Early Childhood Development Task Force (ECDtf). These resources have related to children with disabilities, inclusive early childhood development, and education and early intervention in inter-sectoral responses to crises and displacement.
While identifying an exact number is difficult, we estimate that social media posts have had more than 627,000 impressions and that emails have gone to more than 1,200 ECDtf members, and more than 7,500 users have viewed Open Educational Resource Library pages on our website. We estimate we have reached approximately 8,700 educators with these materials — about 58% of our five-year pledge in one year.
CE International and the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) joined together to create collaborative commitments ahead of the Global Disability Summit in April 2025.
Our Pledge
The Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) and Childhood Education International (CE International) recognize disability-inclusive education as a fundamental right and that children with disabilities are entitled to the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children.
Despite clear evidence of the critical importance of early intervention and nurturing care to fulfill these rights, millions of young children with disabilities and developmental delays continue to be excluded from essential early childhood services and support systems.
Through advocacy, knowledge exchange, and systemic, collective action, ECDAN and CE International are committed to ensuring that all young children worldwide have access to quality care and education and elevating disability-inclusive early childhood intervention and development as a global priority in the following ways:
- Championing the rights and addressing the specific needs of all young children, with dedicated focus on those experiencing developmental delays and disabilities;
- Advancing early childhood intervention (ECI), disability-focused and disability-inclusive early childhood development (ECD) policy, practice, training, and service delivery;
- Influencing global, regional, and national integrated health and education policy agendas to prioritize ECI and disability-inclusive ECD;
- Advocating for increased and targeted financing for disability-inclusive programs, teacher training, parent/caregiver support, and integrated systems approaches that ensure no child is left behind;
- Strengthening the bridges between the disability, child rights, and ECD movements through enhanced cross-sectoral network coordination and collaboration between ECI, ECD, and disability inclusion at local, national, regional, and global levels;
- Fostering collaboration and driving collective impact through the engagement of grassroots networks such as Early Childhood Development Task Force (ECDtf), working groups, and regional and academic partners;
- Countering misinformation and shaping positive perceptions of children with disabilities and their families.
Our Commitments
To meet this commitment, ECDAN and CE International make the following pledges over the next five years toward fulfillment of the rights enshrined in the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the goals of Agenda 2030:
- Build bridges across sectors through meaningful engagement of diverse stakeholders. At least 6 times per year, we will leverage our respective networks and global convening platforms to collaborate through a variety of hosted events.
- Strengthen advocacy capacity and policy development through 10 direct program actions per year in the form of training, workshops, and knowledge sharing. These actions will strengthen the early childhood community’s ability to advance policy reforms that protect the rights of and enhance the well-being of young children with developmental delays and disabilities.
- Grow and further develop an online community of practice of disability-inclusive education leaders and practitioners, with a target of at least 200 participants in the community of practice throughout the five years, fostering sustainable collective action, capacity strengthening, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
- Amplify diverse voices from the field, including parents and caregivers of children with developmental delays and disabilities through strategic storytelling. We will leverage various forms of media, publications, and communications platforms to reach an audience of 95,000 over 5 years.
- Co-organize the Global Caregiver Forum in 2026 with partners through the Global Initiative to Support Parents to build political commitment and increase investments in parenting support interventions.
- Advance interdisciplinary knowledge-sharing and dialogue toward locally led solutions for a world in which young children with developmental delays and disabilities can thrive. We will achieve this by growing the ECDtf network by 5-10% per year and providing informational access to at least 600 resources and articles annually through the ECDtf Digest and listserv.
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