Save the Children South Africa: To undertake an evaluation of selected area based Early Childhood Development Forums

STATUS: Current
PROJECT LEADER:Van der Bergh, GM (Mr Gray), Motala, SY (Ms Shirin)
OTHER TEAM MEMBERS: Booysen, AS (Ms Denise), Ndokweni, M.F. (Dr Mimi), Masvaure, S (Dr Steven)
DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: ()
RESEARCH OUTPUTS: Early childhood development forums: telling the good story: networking to successfully enhance outcomes for young children
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Abstract

This proposal has been drawn up in response to the Terms of Reference (ToR) disseminated by Save the Children, South Africa, inviting Proposals for Assessing the factors that contribute to an effective collective community driven ECD approach. This proposal is submitted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers based at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Save the Children has been extensively involved over fifteen years in the Early Childhood Development sector specifically supporting ECD service providers through community based development forums which serve multiple objectives including strengthening ECD practitioner capacities, showcasing best practices, facilitating and enabling collective action and advocacy and enhancing quality of service provision to young children.