Human resources and curricula content for early child development implementation: multicountry mixed methods evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The WHO recommends responsive caregiving and early learning (RCEL) interventions to improve early child development (ECD), and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals' vision of a world where all children thrive. Implementation of RCEL programmes in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) requires evidence to inform decisions about human resources and curricula content. We aimed to describe human resources and curricula content for implementation of RCEL projects across diverse LMICs, using data from the Grand Challenges Canada Saving Brains ECD portfolio.

Setting

We evaluated 32 RCEL projects across 17 LMICs on four continents.

Participants

Overall, 2165 workers delivered ECD interventions to 25 909 families.

Intervention

Projects were either sta

SUBMITTER: Kohli-Lynch M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7204990 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature