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This project was set up for the 'development of an integrated, contextually appropriate and sustainable package of community driven services to support families and communities to improve the quality of care and education of their children aged 0 - 9 years in the Integrated Service Land Project areas' (Tender proposal, 2001:7). The pilot was intended to contribute to policy for children 0 - 6 years and provide a model of an intersectoral approach to ECD services adaptable enough for replication in other parts of South Africa. The original tender proposal outlined the possible monitoring and evaluation activities and responsibilities. The overall goal of the monitoring strategy was to (1) address the Consortium goals of monitoring the impact of the ECD programmes on the children, teachers, parents and the broader community, (2) document the experiences of this pilot programme as a model for community ECD service provision, and, (3) provide information on how the programme fulfilled stakeholder needs and what should be changed or built upon. 

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