TRACKING THE PROGRESS OF

PHILIPPINE EFA 2015

2.1 Goal 1: Achieving Early

Childhood Education/ Early
Childhood Care and
AVE JESSIBEN MARIE P. TIU
MAED- EDUC. MGT.

Development

The Department of Social Welfare and

Development (DSWD)
-responsible for human development
concerns such as the provision of social
services provided in day care centers.
-systematically implementing the
Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP)
nationwide.
-regular meals served to Day Care Center
children as part of DSWDs program to
ensure that day care children are wellnourished as they attend classes.

There was a 3 percent increase in

the number of early childhood
day
care centers from 2011 to 2013
(51,797 in 2011 to 53,436 in
2013).

Early Childhood Care and

Development (ECCD) enrollees
increased by 4 percent as
indicated by the Department of
Social Welfare and Development
(DSWD) enrolment
of 1,699,888 in 2011 and
1,778,274
in 2013.

The Early Years Act of 2013

designated the ECCD Council as the
agency responsible for children aged
zero to four years old, while DepEd is
in charge of children from five to
eight years old. ECCD programs
towards the development of children
aged zero (0) to four (4) years old are
provided in center-based and homebased day care centers.

The Relevance of EFA

Education
major contributor to the improvement of living
standards of disadvantaged groups.
- It is a means to a better life.
- Asserts that: Basic education as an antipoverty
instrument can provide the skills, attitudes,
knowledge and values that people can use
to organize themselves for common access
to useful information, and a united approach
to greater productivity.

The Relevance of EFA

Education
-can also empower the marginalized and
prevent their exploitation and alienation
from the development process.

2.1 Goal 1: Achieving Early Childhood

Education
(ECE) / Early Childhood Care and
Development (ECCD)
The first goal is to expand and improve
the comprehensive early childhood care
and education, especially for the most
vulnerable and disadvantaged children.

Early Childhood Care and Development

(ECCD) plays a crucial role in ensuring that
children are taught the skills and
knowledge essential in building a
learners interest to acquire education in
life.
Recognizing the benefits of ECCD to a
persons wellbeing and the country, RA
No. 8980 or the ECCD Act was legislated
to institutionalize a national ECCD
system.

The ECCD Act was legislated to

institutionalize a national ECCD system.
Through the ECCD Act, a
comprehensive, integrative, and
sustainable ECCD framework of the
country was developed. This ECCD Act
promotes multi-sectoral and interagency collaboration under the
coordination of a national ECCD
Council.

The ECCD Act was amended through RA

10410 or the Early Years Act of 2013
that recognizes the age from zero to
eight years as the first crucial stage
of educational development
It clarified that the ECCD Council shall
be
responsible for the development of
children from zero to four years old
while DepEd shall be responsible for
children from five to eight years old.

The ECCD Act establishes an ECCD

system that covers a health,
nutrition, early education and social
services development program for
children from zero to four years old.

The ECCD Act specified the provision

of reasonable accommodation and
an accessible environment for children
with disabilities, as well as
advocating respect for cultural and
linguistic diversity.

Local government units are mandated to provide the

basic services and facilities such as the
establishment and maintenance of day care centers
as stipulated in RA No. 7160, otherwise known as
the Local Government Code of 1991.

Presidential Decree (PD) No. 1567 in 1977

Establishing a Day Care Center in Every
Barangay,14 that
requires each barangay to put
up at least one day care center in its area of
jurisdiction resulted in the expansion of day care

After the enactment of RA No. 6972 or the

Barangay-Level Total Development and
Protection of Children Act in 1990, out of
42,026 barangays in the country, 4,570
barangays had yet to put up their own day care
center out of (DSWD, 2011). The number of day
care centers, on the other hand, has
increased from 51,797 in 2011 to 53,436 in
2013.

Growth in population would not guarantee

the delivery of quality ECCD services to all
children aged zero to four years old.
-center-based day care services only
reached 19.9 percent of the target
population.
-The number of children served nationwide
increased from 1,699,888 in 2011 to
1,778,274 in 2013 (LGU DCC).

To expand access to ECCD services, DSWD piloted

and implemented various modalities. The Early Years
Act specified the programs that will deliver the
necessary services for children aged zero to four (04):
1) center-based programs such as day care or child
development services, and community or churchbased early childhood education programs, and
2) home-based programs, i.e., neighborhood-based
play groups, family child care programs, parent
education and home visiting programs.

In 2011, the DSWD issued a new set of guidelines for

accreditation of day care center and child development workers
and
teachers catering to children aged zero to four. The
guidelines, an enhanced version of AO No. 29 s. 2004, set
standards for day care centers and workers on how to
deliver
services efficiently and effectively.
The accreditation covers centers managed by national
government agencies, government-owned and controlled
corporations (GOCCs), local government units (LGUs), social
welfare
development agencies, public organizations, and
private
individuals or groups.
DSWDs accreditation system also established a quality
assurance
mechanism for ECCD services catering to children
aged from zero to four years old.(the actual turnout in the
number of accredited day care centers (23%) and of child
development workers (24%) was very low)

In Conclusion:
The Child Development Workers (CDWs)
serving in day care centers must undergo
training and accept technical supervision
from
DSWD and would be issued Certificate
of Accreditation once the standards are met