Towards a concrete and costed ECD action plan

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Towards a concrete and costed ECD action plan

• Case studies from Burkina Faso and The Gambia

Alain Mingat
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Beyond the general vision

• Burkina Faso and The Gambia have both elaborated
  an ECD strategy. The strategy document had been
  validated or was in the process of validation by
  the government.
• However, both documents were very general and the
  validation would not lead to any real commitment
  for political decision makers.

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Essential Questions

• What coverage do we want to achieve within a
  given time frame (2015) ?
• Which services (other sectors and ECD specific)
  do we envision, how will they be organized and
  how will selectivity be managed?
• At what unit cost and with which structure of
  financing will these services be delivered?
• What are the budget implications? (for recurrent
  and capital expenditures)
• What will the sources of funding be for these
  expenditures? (necessity to maintain financial
  sustainability)

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The need for an instrument for structuring
responses to these questions and defining an ECD
program

• Distinguish between coordination activities and
  specific ECD activities
• Distinguish between specific child oriented
  activities that take place within the family and
  activities for children grouped within a
  structure
• Identify alternative and concrete options for
  organizing these activities

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A simulation model to translate the activities
defined into expenditures and assess program
sustainability

• Establish the demographic basis
• Define initial financial constraints
• Define objectives with regards to coverage and
  types of services
• Define a structure to translate potential
  concrete activities into unit costs of services
• Project recurrent and capital expenditure from
  now until the horizon of the program
• Test practical feasibility, calculate the
  financing gap and assess financial sustainability
  of the program
• Revise the objectives for resource mobilization,
  coverage and service delivery parameters to
  achieve sustainability