Africa Based Capacity Development

• The ABCD grows out of the work that each of the principals has led in Africa. The Early Childhood Development Virtual University (www.ecdvu.org) has been particularly useful as it has had 6 delivery experiences in Africa and 2 in the Middle East since 2001. It has been very positively evaluated twice by the World Bank (2005, 2011). The evaluations concluded that the initiatives exceeded objectives at a much lower cost than other graduate-level options. 

• The Africa Based Capacity Development (ABCD) Team is led by the UNESCO Co-Chairs in ECD: Professor Hasina Ebrahim from the University of South Africa, Professor Oumar Barry from Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal), Asst Professor Patrick Makokoro, from the University of Victoria (Canada) and Professor Emeritus Alan Pence.