Piloting, testing and scaling parental training: a multi-partnership approach in Cote d'Ivoire.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Early Childhood Development is high on the policy agenda in Côte d'Ivoire, where the government has identified it as part of its overall approach to improve human capital outcomes. This paper describes a multi-partner approach to piloting, monitoring, adaption, testing and scaling of parental training for ECD. It discusses the learnings from the pilots, and present early evaluation results from two RCTs, focusing on parental participation in trainings and acceptability of messages, with the objective to inform national scaling strategies. As such, this paper illustrates how "MEL systems contributed to ensuring that positive early childhood development (ECD) outcomes were improved as interventions were seeking to achieve scale," one of the research question

SUBMITTER: Anago R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10466389 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature