The HCI Foundation’s early childhood development strategy is based on the African proverb, “it takes a village to raise a child”. This is based on the understanding that all children have the potential to succeed, provided they are nurtured in conducive environments.
Over the years, we have supported many organisations by delivering accredited and enrichment training to practitioners to capacitate the sector and strengthen the delivery of quality early learning. However, we believe that training practitioners alone is not enough. In order to ensure the measurable and sustainable impact of programmes, they must be combined with after-training support and mentoring practitioners, monitoring and evaluation, and involvement of other stakeholders to provide other services. Hence, we have come up with the following eight elements we believe should be in place to provide a firm foundation for children to succeed in the schooling system and later in life: parental involvement, compliance with government requirements, mentorship and support, play-based learning, promotion of good health and nutritional support, monitoring and evaluation of learning, and ECD sites establishing relationships with local primary schools and resourced environments.
We intend to ensure that all children can access quality, inclusive, transformative, play-based early learning programmes provided by skilled, qualified, passionate, nurturing and imaginative teachers. Access to quality early learning education is critical for children’s success at school and later in life.
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