Bana Pele to Global Leadership: South Africa’s Opportunity to Champion the Early Years
South Africa’s G20 Presidency theme of “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability” creates a historic opportunity to showcase how investing in early childhood care and education can simultaneously address the triple threat of unemployment, inequality, and poverty while delivering a powerful triple benefit: nurturing children’s potential, creating meaningful jobs in the female-led care economy, and enabling parents and carers to participate in the workforce.
This briefing, developed collaboratively by Ilifa Labantwana, SmartStart, and Theirworld, seeks to highlight South Africa’s approach to early childhood care and education on the global stage.