Education

The GROW with Educare Centres' vision is to develop a national brand of quality, inspirational, aspirational, fee-paying Early Childhood Development centres in low-income areas for children between the ages of 2 and 5 years. GROW is innovative in that it is using social franchising as the pathway to scale and has successfully replicated the model to 20 schools serving 780 children in 3 years.

OneSky has developed an Early Childhood Care and Education program designed to address the need for high quality care and education of vulnerable young children in newly industrialized regions in the developing world. At the foundation of the innovation are a ToT approach, unique OneSky curriculum, and partnership with the government.

Poverty, malnutrition and lack of stimulating environment are risk factors for poor development and are prevalent in Bangladesh.

We propose to use the Collaborative Team Approach (CTA) to spread the practice of the Sugira Muryango home-visiting program, an evidence-based intervention that offers active coaching of caregivers by lay-workers from the community trained in the intervention to promote early stimulation, play, nutrition, hygiene, non-violent discipline and responsive parenting, across the Nyanza district of Rwanda.

School Readiness Initiative (SRI) plans to scale up its effective and comprehensive modern Early Child Care and Education program in Ethiopia. .To address the gap in preschool preparation available to children, , SRI developed a program that has been shown to improve school readiness. SRI's approach includes programs for teacher training, cognitive, mental and physical health, parenting education, and family counselling.

The home environments in which children are raised fundamentally shape their health, wellbeing, and development outcomes in early childhood and throughout their lives. Bandebereho is a gender-transformative intervention in Rwanda that helps new parents to become more equitable, caring, and responsive caregivers. The intervention is proven to reduce violence within the home and to foster men's engagement in their children's lives.

First Steps (FS) aims to achieve improvements in parenting practices, child development indicators, and increase emergent literacy promotion in the home by reaching children aged 0-3 years old through community-based parenting education sessions, home activities and radio programs in Rwanda. The program is delivered through community parenting education using a radio program and providing community based activities. It reaches a great number of children and parents at a low cost.

SmartStart is an early learning franchise – a network of licensed practitioners who implement the same evidence-based programme (SmartStart routine), focusing on two delivery models: twice-weekly playgroups for up to 15 children (critical for reaching children in poorest quintiles quickly and affordably) & supporting existing and new home-based ECD programmes to offer quality programmes to children. Our goal is to ensure that children who attend SmartStart programmes have age-appropriate social, emotional, learning and language skills when they start school.

Early childhood interventions are critical to offset the negative impact of early adversity and to ensure children can reach their developmental potential. The negative impact of early adversity can be decreased or reversed through appropriate early-life interventions. For example, teaching parents play-based activities to stimulate children and providing nutrition supplements for children have been shown to improve physical growth and cognitive and motor development.

Early childhood interventions are critical to offset the negative impact of early adversity and to ensure children can reach their developmental potential. The negative impact of early adversity can be decreased or reversed through appropriate early-life interventions. For example, teaching parents play-based activities to stimulate children and providing nutrition supplements for children have been shown to improve physical growth and cognitive and motor development.