Early childhood development forums: telling the good story: networking to successfully enhance outcomes for young children

The relevance of this study must be located in a principle espoused in the National Development Plan Vision 2030 (NPC, 2012, Chapter 15) of enabling and facilitating active citizenry through structures that would allow all development actors (the individual, communities, NGOs, government and even the private sector) to link with each other, share information, jointly address problems and challenges and develop strategies together that enable citizens to best claim their rights and exercise their responsibilities as envisaged by the Constitution of South Africa.