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Common Approaches in the Pipeline: Building Brains
The first years of a child's life are the most crucial years in their development—90% of brain development takes place before the age of five. Children who do not receive adequate care during these important years are more likely to struggle later in life
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Advancing the Right to Read in Rwanda: Key programme achievements & learning
The Advancing the Right to Read in Rwanda (ARR) programme was designed as a direct response to the critical challenge of quality of learning in Rwanda. Save the Children identified the lack of sufficient support for Rwandan children in developing school r
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Android Apps Enhance the Reading Skills of Lag Behind Students in Bangladesh
This brief descibes an app that was used in Reading Enhancement for Advancing Development (READ) activities to prevent struggling students (in grade 1-3) from falling behind. The aim of the programme, and the app, has been to catch difficulties in learnin
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Randomised Control Trial (RCT) of Families Connect
Families Connect is a parental engagement programme that has been designed by Save the Children UK (SCUK) to develop the skills and confidence of families in disadvantaged areas, and provide them with the resources to actively engage their children in lea
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Male Engagement in Early Childhood Education
A brief case study from Save the Children Sri Lanka describing the gender seeding approach in the implementation of Early Childhood Development parenting interventions with families working in the tea plantations.
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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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Windows into Early Learning and Development
Windows into Early Learning and Development sheds light on what can be done to give all children the best chance in life in their first five years. Poverty, stunting, and lack of cognitive stimulation mean that nearly half of 3- and 4-year-old children in
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Niger Sponsorship Early Childhood Development Baseline Assessment
This report describes the results of a baseline learning assessment of children attending five early childhood development centers (Jardin d'Enfants Communautaire; JEC) in the Maradi Region of Niger. All five JEC in the sample are participating in Emergen
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Lighting Up Young Brains: How parents, carers and nurseries support children's brain development in the first five years
Lighting Up Young Brains looks at the science behind young children's brain development and its relationship to children's language development. It shows how parents, carers and early years workers can support this process- with a set of top tips for pare
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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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Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD): Various modalities of delivering early cognitive stimulation programs for 0-6 year olds
Before young children can start to learn reading and math, they need to develop the physical, cognitive, language and social skills to use a pencil, follow a story and listen quietly to a teacher. That’s why Save the Children (SC) places such a high prior