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Early Childhood Development (0-4) Project
Early Childhood Development (0-4) Project
Presentation to Renewal Workshop12/13 March 2007
Dr. Miriam AltmanExecutive Director
Employment, Growth & Development InitiativeHuman Sciences Research Council
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HSRC emphasis:Linking employment to social delivery
HSRC emphasis:Linking employment to social delivery
• Objective: Substantial job creation• through responsible expansion of community based “care”
services• procured by government
• AIDS-sensitive but not AIDS-specific• Government has committed to providing ECD services (0-
4) to all poor children by 2009. Committed large financial resources and willing to commit more if capacity demonstrated
• HSRC calculated potential creation of 340,000 net new jobs.
• Programmes under design at much smaller scale.
• Roll-out has been slow, in part because ECD sector very fragmented and weak
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Programme elementsProgramme elements
• Best practice developing country case studies in scaling up community based social welfare services to some minimum standards.
• Background investigations on SA context
• Identifying alternative institutional models that might be tested through demonstration project:
• Alternative job hierarchies in ECD provision and supervision, and the fit of low skill service providers.
• Alternative institutional models to enable scaling up in context of fragmentation and capacity constraints.
• Knowledge sharing through round-tables and web based document coordination
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Programme elements:demonstration projectProgramme elements:demonstration project
• Demonstration project –• Purpose: to test alternative
approaches identified • Elements (over 5 years)
• Identify sites and implementation partners
• Identify delivery model to be tested• Including job hierarchies, home vs
centre based, etc
• Monitoring and evaluation key• Capacity development• Impact assessment and indicators
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Research issuesResearch issues
• Targeting• Implementation structures: roles of govt,
NGOs, CBOs, private providers• Alternative program design• Potential for auxiliary activities• Capacity needed for scaling up• Policy processes around implementation
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Project structure and partnersProject structure and partners
• Project overseen by reference committee convened by the Dept of Education, and comprised of social departments, provincial reps, Unicef, other experts.
• Implementation: HSRC, provincial agency responsible for ECD (0-4) funding, local NGOs and CBOs implementing
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