Rokhaya Fall DIAWARA is an education Programme Specialist and Global Early Childhood Care and Education specialist at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. She has more than 17 years of experience, including work at government, UN agencies, and international Organizations in education, particularly in Early Childhood, Literacy, and non-formal education in different parts of the world. She has been successively a teacher, an educational researcher, a policy maker, and a project manager in the field of education. She was the coordinator of the African working group on ECCE for seven years, a member of the Early Childhood Global Consultative Group, and a member of the advisory Group of the Early Childhood Development Action Network. She initiated and implemented several education projects in curricula, educational reforms, school evaluation, and textbooks. Ms. Diawara is co-editor of several national strategies and policy documents and author of several publications on Early Childhood Development, 10 Years Basic Education in Africa, “Transformative Gender and Leadership,” schoolbooks, and extra-curricular series such as Bouba & Zaza. Ms Diawara is the coordinator/organizer of the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education, Tashkent, November 2022, where 155 UNESCO Member States adopted the Tashkent Declaration and Commitments to Action for Transforming Early Childhood Care and Education. In 2021, She initiated the Global Partnership Strategy for Early Childhood, adopted by 45 international organizations