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Pisani, Lauren
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Collaborative Change: Leveraging international IDELA partnerships to benefit young children
Achieving access, equity and quality in early childhood programs is hindered by a lack of robust evidence from implementation research and impact evaluations, knowledge brokering and collaborative partnerships between communities of research, practice and
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First Read Southern Thailand Endline Report
Save the Children Thailand has been implementing the First Read Southern Thailand project since 2016. The report captures the impact of the first year of project implementation in target areas of Si Sakhon district, Narathiwat province. The main objective
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International Development and Early Learning Assessment Technical Paper
Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) programs help ensure that young children fulfill their right to healthy development and education, and ultimately assist them in reaching their full potential. In the ECCD field, there are few international tool
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Bulding Brains: Early Stimulation for Children from Birth to Three
Now more than before, we know that the early years of a child's life are the foundation of human development and life-long learning. In the first year of life, 1 million new neural connections are formed per second. A child's brain is built, not born. Sav
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IDELA: Fostering Common Solutions for Young Children
Evidence about the importance of learning opportunities in early childhood has been mounting in recent years, culminating with the inclusion of pre-primary education in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Despite the known benefits, global investment
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Philippines First Read: Endline Report, 2016
This report is the endline evaluation of First Read, an early childhood development program implemented by Save the Children in the Philippines, with funding from the Prudence UK Foundation. The First Read Project aims to improve the developmental outcome
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First Read Rwanda: Children aged 0-6 years
This report describes the results of an endline evaluation of First Read, a programme focused on developing emergent literacy skills in children aged 0-6, in three sectors of Rwanda’s Ngororero district.
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Cambodia First Read Endline Report, 2016
This report describes the results of an evaluation of “FIRST READ: Supporting families with preschool children to learn together in Cambodia”, funded by the Prudence Foundation.
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Assessing the Construct Validity of Save the Children's International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA)
The International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA) was developed by Save the Children to assess early childhood development holistically. It has been used in 30 mostly low- and middle-income countries. High-quality measurement plays a cri
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Saving Brains: First Steps 0-3 Program in Rwanda Endline Report
First Steps (Intera za Mbere) is a nationally-scalable approach to promoting healthy early childhood development by offering holistic parenting education to parents of 0-3 year olds in Rwanda. First Steps focuses on parents’ support for physical, socio-em
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National ECCD Centre Program Impact Evaluation 2015
The Ministry of Education and Save the Children in Bhutan completed an impact evaluation of the national ECCD center program in 2015. ECCD center programming has been steadily expanding in Bhutan, in accordance with Realizing Vision 2020: Education Sector
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Healing and Education Through the Arts (HEART) Evaluation: Bosnia 2016
HEART, which stands for Healing and Education Through the Arts, is an arts-based approach to providing psychosocial support for children affected by serious or chronic stress. It uses the arts to help children process and communicate feelings related to t