On October 18th, Manitou, Inc. submitted the final set of deliverables to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, including:

• The Integrated Early Childhood Development Operational Framework for the Eastern Caribbean Region.  This document provides stakeholders with the necessary information to identify every existing opportunity to leverage and new structures to build on in order to haromonize the systems of delivering integrated ECD services to the Caribbean’s children.
• Towards Defining Terminologies Used in the Early childhood Development (ECD) Sector in the OECS.  A component of the above study is the presentation of how different terminologies are conceived, defined, and used throughout the Region.  This work drew from a qualitative analytical methods using, y.Ed, NVivo, and Provalis.
• The Report detailing the decisions undertaken for the Virtual Stakeholder Validation Workshop held on 6 October, 2016.

This study would not have been possible without the valuable contributions from the dedicated representatives from all of the Member States, UNICEF, and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.  The involvement of the practitioners and parents in this study was invaluable, as they all generously shared their time and ideas throughout the data collection and analysis process.  As the Eastern Caribbean Region continues to harmonize social services in the future, this report has identified needs and areas to explore to facilitate the overall process.