Early Childhood Development Initiative (Ecdi)

ecdi is a child’s rights-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting optimal early childhood care and education for west african children. we are early childhood development (ecd) technical partners with unicef in nigeria where research has identified the low capacity of pre-primary teachers as a factor hindering early learning. ecdi collaborates with government, communities and international agencies to support a strong ecd knowledge base, develop a core of ecd trainers and provide resources to support child development from ages 0-5, the critical period that lays the foundation for children's lifelong outcomes. ecdi establishes and delivers culturally appropriate teacher training programs, advocacy, public enlightenment, resource supply, research, early literacy initiatives and special needs supports. ecdi has, in collaboration with unicef, developed a reggio emilia based training manual for pre-primary teachers which is now the national standard in nigeria. since 2015,