Zanzibar Declaration on Investing in Early Years adopted during the event
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- ZANZIBAR: THE launch of the Zanzibar Multisectoral Early Childhood Development Programme 2026–2031 on July 22, 2026, marked more than the unveiling of a new government initiative.
- Nearly 26 per cent of Zanzibar’s population is below eight years of age.
- The study involved more than 1,050 children and caregivers drawn from 70 shehias across all five regions and all 11 districts of Zanzibar.
- It was Zanzibar’s declaration that the foundations of its future economy, education system and social wellbeing are being laid today, in the health, nutrition, protection, care and early learning of its youngest.
- With nearly one in every four Zanzibaris below the age of eight, the programme places the early years at the heart of national development and challenges government, partners, communities and the media to turn political.