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- ItemOpen AccessAssessment of inter-sectoal participation in early childhood development programmes in southwestern, Nigeria(The institute of Education, Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2021) AJAYI, Emmanuel OluwafemiThis study examined the roles of Sectors/Ministries that are involved in Early Childhood Development Programmers, determined the scope of sectoral participations in terms of content/range of children involved, ascertained the level of inter-sectoral participation in the Programmes and assessed the perception of school owners on the inter-sectoral participation in the Programmes. These were with a view to providing information on inter-sectoral participation in early childhood development programmes in southwestern, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was used in the study. 252 respondents were involved in the study. A questionnaire designed by the researcher titled “Early Childhood Development Inter-sectoral Participation Questionnaire (ECDI-SPQ)” was used to elicit information from respondents. Data collected were analysed with the use of frequency counts, percentages, mean rating and standard deviation. Results showed that there were 17 Sectors/Ministries (Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Policy Maker and Legislators, Ministry of Environment and Sanitation, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Water Resources and Affiliated Agency, Ministry of Woman Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Local Government, Ministry of Labour, International Development Partners, Ministry of internal Affairs, National Population Commission, Tertiary Institutions, Social Organisations, Public Sector Organisations and Information and National Orientation Agency) involved in ECD programmes with their roles examined, all the Sectors/Ministries participated within their specific scope of activities and content/range of children involved except Information and National Orientation. The result also showed that only three of the xii Sectors/Ministries such as Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, and National Population Commission, had high level of participation with mean values of 2.51, 2.83 and 2.57 respectively while fourteen of the Sectors/Ministries such as: Policy Maker and Legislators, Ministry of Environment and Sanitation, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Water Resources and Affiliated Agency, Ministry of Woman Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Local Government, Ministry of Labour, International Development Partners, Ministry of internal Affairs, Tertiary Institutions, Social Organisations, Public Sector Organisations and Information and National Orientation Agency, indicated low level of participation with mean value of less than 2.5. Also the perception of school owners on the inter-sectoral participation in ECD programmes showed that seven of the nine items such as: It enhances the ethics of the centres, it ensures the availability of materials and equipment in the centres, it allows children to have adequate access to attention, it is a functional synergy, it promotes all round development of the child, it is laudable and it enhances service delivery at the centres agreed with the item statements with mean values of 2.79, 2.89, 2.71, 3.12, 2.69, 2.55 and 2.67 respectively while two of the nine items such as: It makes every stakeholder to participate and it involved all the Sectors/Ministries disagreed with the item statements with mean values of 2.46 and 2.40 respectively. The study concluded that inter-sectoral participation in ECD programmes in Southwestern, Nigeria is low and required more commitment from all Sectors/Ministries for the proper implementation of the programmes.