The partnership supports community-based early childhood development programmes, educational media, integrated early stimulation and nutrition programmes, and other early learning opportunities for children up to six years old in Benin, Lao PDR, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, and Timor Leste.
Another study from Jamaica [22] developed an early stimulation home-visit programme, which focused on improving child development by improving mothers' knowledge and practices of child rearing and their parenting self-esteem.
A third strand of ECD programming includes support for development of modules to integrate child development and early stimulation into community health programmes, support for breastfeeding promotion; and support for development of training modules on early intervention for children with disabilities guidelines on community-based rehabilitation.
The caregiver circles are designed for children under the age of three and their families by providing early stimulation and care, feeding and parenting programmes.
This comic book shows how the ECD&Family programme addresses nutrition, health, early stimulation and protection of young children and family.
More specific enrollment targets for each of the three main ECD programmes (home visits to promote early stimulation, day care centers, and preprimary schools) are needed.
It is Isanna's first home visit from the community health aide and she is quickly adapting to the new activities being introduced under the Early Childhood Health Outreach (ECHO) programme, which was designed to bring early stimulation, parenting education and health outreach directly to her living room.
In response and together with the Government, UNICEF developed an early childhood education training programme for teachers about the importance of early stimulation, lesson planning, and play-based activities for young children.
Male role model "The programme has both boys and girls and seeks to involve both fathers and mothers in the early stimulation of their children," says Ms. Pourzand.
In the absence of a comprehensive results based framework, analysis of available data suggested that the ECHO programme had only partially met its goal, while achieving the two objectives related to provision of early stimulation and training of staff to deliver stimulation.
