Pacific Regional Council for Early Childhood Development

Fiji hosts 2023 Pacific ECD Forum: 22-24 February

The 2023 Pacific Early Childhood Development (ECD) Forum, with the theme 'Building a Resilient Blue Pacific Through Early Childhood Development', will be a 3-day high-level forum held on 22-24 February in Nadi, Fiji for 15 Pacific Island governments to discuss early childhood investments as a critical component of building resilience to climate change, natural disasters and other emergencies.

The forum will also gather governments to discuss advances made since the declaration of the Pasifika Call to Action on ECD in 2017 – the region’s nine-point action agenda that lays out critical national efforts to secure the optimal development of young children.

A key output of the forum is adding action point #10 to the Pasifika Call to Action, identifying what countries should do on ECD to build resilient Pacific communities. The Forum builds on similar multi-sectoral and inter-governmental gatherings in 2017 and 2019 in Fiji, organized by the Pacific Regional Council for ECD (PRC4ECD) and UNICEF, with the support of the New Zealand government and other partners.