ECCE tool: Existence of laws and/or policies guaranteeing access to ECCE for children living with mothers in prisons

This indicator examines the existence of legislative or policy provisions  guaranteeing  children living with mothers in prisons to have access to equal education including ECCE/pre-primary education.

Proportion of children aged 24-59 months who are developmentally on track in health, learning, and psychological well-being

This is the SDG. 4.2.1 indicator that tracks the progress made to SDG target 4.2. Which is 'by 2030, ensure all boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education’.

As per the SDG definition, this refers to the proportion of children aged 24 to 59 months who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psycho-social well-being, and it includes the following concepts :

Recognition and coverage of the rights of non-discrimination and equality in the national legal framework

The right to equality and non-discrimination are core human rights and the basis for ensuring the right to education for all. The international human rights legal framework contains international instruments to combat specific forms of discrimination.

Out-of-school children rate

Total primary (or secondary) school age children who are not enrolled (because they never enrolled or because they dropped-out) in primary or secondary education expressed as a percentage of the official school-age population corresponding to the primary (or secondary) level in a given school-year. Children enrolled in pre-primary education are excluded and considered out-of-school (Source: UIS)

Gross enrolment ratio (GER) (%)

GER is the ratio of total enrolment, regardless of age, to the population of the age group that corresponds to the same level of education. GER can exceed 100% due to the inclusion of over-aged and under-aged students, because of early or late school entrance, and grade repetition. For the tertiary level, the population used is the 5-year age group starting from the official secondary school graduation age (Source: UIS, Education Indicators - Technical Guidelines: p.9)

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