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Early learning
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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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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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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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Numeracy Boost: Common approaches
Numeracy Boost is Save the Children's program to support the development of math skills of children in the early primary grades, both inside and outside the classroom. Maths is an integral component of foundational learning and research has shown that chi
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Literacy Boost: Common approaches
Literacy Boost is Save the Children's program to support the development of literacy skills of children in the early primary grades, both inside and outside the classroom. Literacy is an integral component of foundational learning and research has shown t
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Investing in Maternal and Child Health: Development impact bonds
The global decrease in child and maternal deaths is one of the great achievements in international development in recent decades. Child mortality rates have fallen by more than half, from 12.7 million under-5 deaths in 1990, to 5.6 million in 2016. U.S. l
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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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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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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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Care for Child Development (C4CD) Plus: A pilot project for 3-5 year old children
Save the Children, in partnership with the Ministry of Health of Bhutan, implemented an innovative intervention to provide a quality parenting program which is “The Care for Child Development Program (C4CD) Plus”. The program aims to empower parents and
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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