The groups represented at the meeting included: UNESCO, IQRA' International

Institute, OMEP International, OMEP France, Consultative Group on Early Childhood

Care and Development Secretariat, UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS and the Baltic,

Living Values International Secretariat, Peter-Hesse Foundation, Swedish Ministry of

Education & Science, Asociación Mundial de Educadores Infantiles, IUFM Grenoble,

Crèche Petit à Petit, Israel Ministry of Health, Montessori Centre International, Women's

World Summit Foundation, Arab Women's Solidarity, Syndicat des Enseignants, Living

Values in Israel Association, Association of Living Values Educators of Kenya, Mauritius

Institute of Education, Beirut American Community School, Kuwait American School,

Association Mondiale des Amis de l'Enfance (AMADE)

and agreed to work on a joint framework for action to reinforce awareness of :

• the need for a "flexible, creative, communicative and supportive" learning

environment for a young child,

• the impact of a value-based child-friendly learning environment where each child

can express its creative and communicative skills,

• the importance of surrounding the child with human core-values from an early age,

• the ways of implementing values-based early childhood approaches for a better

social, emotional, academic and spiritual development of the young child.