The second National Early Childhood Development Community of Practice (ECD CoP) meeting of the year involved over 70 diverse ECD stakeholders from all nine provinces.

The meeting focused on two topical accomplishments of the ECD sector, namely: the new National Integrated Policy for ECD and the recently registered Level 4 Occupational Certificate: ECD Practitioner. The meeting also involved the showcasing of mothers2mothers, as well as updates and discussions on the ECD CoPs ongoing activities such as the Quality Toolkit Pilot Project, mapping project and the Inter-sectoral Forum for ECD, etc.