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New UNICEF and Ministry of Education Initiative: Advancing Parenting Support through Preschool Education
28 August 2025, Ashgabat — From 26 to 28 August, UNICEF, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the National Institute of Education of Turkmenistan, trained 25 preschool teachers to support parents engage with their children and improve early learning outcomes. The training focused on promoting positi...
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Turkmenistan and UNICEF Take Key Step Toward New National Strategy on Early Childhood Development
Ashgabat, 22 July 2025, — As part of ongoing efforts to enhance early childhood development (ECD) in Turkmenistan, UNICEF was pleased to welcome Mr. Christian Morabito, a global expert in ECD policy, for a working visit from 13 to 17 July 2025. During his visit, Mr. Morabito collaborated with national partners to ...
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Helping Parents Give Children the Best Start in Life: Training for Health Professionals in Turkmenistan
Ashgabat, July 4, 2025 - , On July 3–4, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan held a two-day training to help health professionals, supporting early childhood development (ECD), strengthen their communication and interpersonal skills when working with families. The goal is to ensur...
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Early Childhood Development services expand in Turkmenistan with UNICEF support
November 30 th -, Last week, at House of Health №16 in Ashgabat, Ministry of Health and Medical Industry (MoHMI), UNICEF and Ankara University concluded the series of trainings for 2022 as part of the multi-year capacity building programme of health specialists on Early Childhood Development (ECD). Since the launc...
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UNICEF Turkmenistan
News and stories, Our work in Turkmenistan, Our work in Turkmenistan UNICEF promotes and defends the rights of children and young people. Discover the ways UNICEF in Turkmenistan advocates for the rights of every child, every day. Quality inclusive education Social and child protection Child health, nutrition and...
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#LearningAtHome campaign edutains Turkmenistan children
In early April 2020, UNICEF launched a two-week campaign to entertain children while they are at home. In our social media channels, we introduced a challenge which parents and kids could play in a fun way to stimulate their brains and build connections. Take the challenge and share your content on social media using hashtags #LearningAtHome #…
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Turkmenistan will develop an action plan to implement the early childhood development strategy
UNICEF is providing expertise to the Government of Turkmenistan in developing its action plan and monitoring and evaluation framework to implement the National Strategy on Early Childhood Development (ECD) for 2020-2025. The first steps in developing an action plan have been discussed last week at the online consu...
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Aymuhammet and Abdulla - success story on early childhood development centres
This is Aymuhammet, a seven-year-old boy from Turkmenistan, who had been diagnosed with a cerebral palsy at birth. We met him at the Early Childhood Development Center in Ashgabat. Along with some other two thousand children, Aymuhammet has used the Center’s services since its opening in 2015. The Center – establi...
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Facts for life
This booklet contains useful information and advice for parents and caregivers about nutrition, immunization, Early Childhood Development, hygiene, flue, HIV/AIDS etc.
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Engaging Parents and Including All Children in Early Learning
Initiating new community-based services is challenging and requires a comprehensive approach, espe-cially when it comes to ensuring better child outcomes and bringing various sectors to work towards. UNICEF supported monitoring and documentation of the capacity of the ECD Centres to provide eq-uitable community-ba...
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Monitoring bottlenecks and barriers for equitable results
The quality of services directly contributes to important health outcomes. The effective Home Visitation system is an efficient channel of improving maternal and child health status, improving outcomes for children with developmental difficulties and supporting their families at the Primary Health Care (PHC) level...
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On the International Child Protection Day, Turkmenistan students debate on importance of early childhood development
Students of major universities of Turkmenistan argued for promoting early childhood development (ECD) during the student’ debates at the event on the International Child Protection Day today jointly organised by UNICEF, the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education. In their deliberations, young people called t...