received more priority by donors. Hence, NGO operations have also focused on those geographical areas – again raising questions on aid effectiveness. The team has creatively used all personal contacts to eventually identify centres, used a mapping study, Education Foundations' websites and other resources. Plan staff in the field has also been very helpful.
Gender in Early Childhood Care and Development
3. Getting any data on ECCD has been a challenge, particularly on out of ECE/ECCD facilities, since the census is almost redundant and figures in other documents are mere estimates. Additionally, in the absence of data on enrollment in ECE/ECCD in Pakistan, having a reliable figure on out of ECE/ECCD institutions is problematic. 4. Teachers as well as parents did not have any idea of rights based services, and gender equality, it seems, had never been a consideration for them. They genuinely seem confident of their fairness towards girls and boys and did not seem to think that gender issues either existed or mattered.
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