This guide is part of a series of thematic guidance notes providing practical advice on monitoring various aspects of the right to education from a human rights perspective. These guides are based on, and supplement, the Right to Education Initiative’s (RTE) monitoring guide, which provides a human rights framework for monitoring education and education-related issues, as well as our experiences across various monitoring initiatives that we have undertaken with partners from all over the world.
This guide focus on early childhood care and education (ECCE) and aims to provide human rights indicators and guidance for those advocating to ensure young children’s right to ECCE are guaranteed, respected and implemented. This guide is designed to explain and simplify the ECCE monitoring process. It includes a set of human rights indicators based on the international human rights law framework which will assist in gathering data, and in the subsequent generation of evidence on the violation of the rights of young children to have free and quality access to ECCE. This guide also encourages a democratic and participatory ECCE monitoring process.
