Learning Brief 3, May Building local ECD knowledge : evidence from the Sobambisana initiative
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Publication
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ECCE, Preschool
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Ilifa Labantwana, Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa
URL
[ private ]
Pages
8 p.
Subject
Early childhood care and education (ECCE), Preschool education, Young children, Disadvantaged children, Vulnerable children, ECD models, ECD programmes, ECD policy, Government role, Research, South Africa
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Abstract
'Ilifa Labantwana is a national Early Childhood Development Programme in South Africa. IIifa Labantwana is concerned with the design and testing of scalable integrated and affordable ECD models which can be taken forward to ensure that all children in South Africa have access to the services they need to develop to their full potential. It is within this context that Ilifa funded five organisations to test what they believed would be workable models in the context in which they were working. What emerged was a community of practice known as the Sobambisana (Help each other) Initiative. The Sobambisana Initiative was carried out over a four year period and tracked by a robust research process focusing on monitoring and evaluation the models being implemented. Based on this research, a series of five learning briefs has been published, this is the second in the series. It focuses specifically on ECD as a development concern in a South African context, offering lessons learned from the Sobambisana interventions.' [p. 2]
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