RENCP ECCD Working Group Updates

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RENCP ECCD Working Group Updates Period April
2015-July 2015 RENCP General Assembly, 30th July
2015
Presenter Caroline DUSABE ECD Programme
Manager-Save the Children
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RECENT ECCD WG ACTIVITIES

• ECCD WG Participation in Day of the African Child
  Celebration held at Serena under the theme
  "Accelerating our common efforts for Early
  Childhood Development
• Various organization's participated in both the
  exhibition and conference
• ECCD WG Meeting on 29th June
• Key outcomes
• Finalized TOR for the WG
• Communications about available books and other
  learning materials from ADRA
• WG member collaboration to develop a low cost/
  no cost learning materials resource book. Umuhuza
  Organisation is leading on putting it together

Save the Children Stand at DAC exhibition
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RECENT ECCD WG ACTIVITIES

• RENCP ECCD WG meeting and Learning Lab to Plan
  supported ECCD Centre in Tunda Bugesera on 16th
  July
• Key Learning
• Importance of collaboration with local
  authorities
• Linking ECCD Centre to other activities in the
  community eg Health, Nutrition so the Centre is a
  kind of community hub
• Thinking of needs of children with Special Needs
• Working Closely with the CHW on issues of Health
  and Nutrition
• Some advice for Plan
• Consider providing age appropriate Kinyarwanda
  books for the children
• More outcomes from the visit
• ADRA agreed to give Plan/ the Centre Books in
  English for using at the Centre
• Save the Children agreed to train Caregivers/
  Trainers of Caregives on how to use books with
  young children
• Key action points from the meeting and Learning
  Lab
• Exchange visit to PLAN ECCD work in Bugesera in
  May 2015
• Next ECCD WG and Learning Lab to be hosted by VSO
  in June.

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ECCD WG members interacting with parents at the
learning Lab
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UPDATES FROM NATIONAL LEVEL ECCD DEVELOPMENTS

• New Radio show for Children aged 0-6 years and
  their parents to start this September on Radio
  Rwanda. Some ECCD WG members have volunteered to
  be part of Content Advisory Group. The initiative
  is led by UNICEF, Imbuto and MIGEPROF
• Activities related to the New Pre-primary
  curriculum continued with high involvement of
  ECCD WG Members Training of DMASTS, Training on
  Pre- Primary Curriculum Materials
• ECD Policy Implementation Plan in Final stages
  Members will again be invited to participate in
  review of the costed strategy and implementations
  plan

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• THANK YOU!