The “Women in the field of nurseries and kindergartens” at the Supreme Council of Women held its first meeting headed by Her Highness Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifa Al Khalifa, member of the Supreme Council for Women.
The meeting started by welcoming the members of the committee, and reviewing its most important specializations that include monitoring the basic challenges and needs of women working in the custody and kindergarten sector, and proposing public policy through developing legislation and executive decisions and administrative regulations to amend the conditions of workers in this field, and proposing the organizational framework to develop the conditions and criteria for issuing licenses to establish and establish early education institutions, in a way that ensures the integration of the needs of women working in This sector, and the proposal of training and rehabilitation programs to develop and develop the capabilities of women working in this sector, and to activate the mechanisms of coordination and cooperation with the ministries, institutions and official bodies concerned with supporting early education programs.
The committee reviewed the procedures and efforts implemented during the period 2017-2023, which included monitoring the basic problems and needs of workers in the early education sector, and the procedures also included the launch of the “Nanny Program and the National Teacher” to develop work in custody and kindergarten houses in cooperation with the University of Bahrain and the Ministry of Social Development and the Ministry of Education and with funding from the “Tamkeen” labor fund, and the study carried out by the Labor Fund “Tamkeen” was referred to on the status of women working in the nursery houses And kindergarten.
The meeting discussed the proposals of the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Women for the Priorities of the Committee’s work for the year 2025-2026, including the proposal to develop policies and legislations for improving the job status of workers in the civilization and kindergarten sector, and the implementation of awareness, training and rehabilitation programs appropriate for workers in custody and kindergarten in a way that contributes to developing the quality of the early education sector, and the meeting witnessed discussion of members’ proposals on the upcoming work priorities in a way that agreed with The competencies of the committee, and it was agreed to focus at this stage on completing the study of the conditions of working women in nurseries and kindergarten and reviewing the relevant laws to address the status of workers in this sector.
It is noteworthy that the “Women in the field of nurseries and kindergartens” was chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifa Al Khalifa, member of the Supreme Council for Women, and includes in its membership, Mr. Ahmed Jaafar Al -Hayyi, Assistant Undersecretary for Labor Affairs in the Ministry of Labor, Mrs. Alia Ali Al -Ali, CEO of strategy and data analysis in the work fund “Tamkeen”, and Mrs. Fathia Ali Ahmed Aish, Director of Licensing and Follow -up Department of Early Education in the Ministry of Education and Mrs. Afaf Hamad Salmin, director of kindergarten at Abdul Rahman International School, and Mrs. Amal Ali Youssef, Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Legal Affairs.
