The WUA ECD Centre was established and set up in 2014 at the then Mt Pleasant WUA campus with the blessing of the then Vice Chancellor Prof. Cynthia Hope Sadza. It is housed by the Continuing Education Department that falls under the Faculty of Social and Gender Transformative Sciences. Dr J. Magumise is the Chairman of Continuing Education Department while Dr I. Mafa is the Dean of the Faculty respectively. Mrs J. Musiyiwa is the head of the centre.