ELP Grants and Country Work Thematic Round: Scaling Up Early Childhood Development Measurement (2023-2026) Global Funds Country Name of Grant Key Activities Related Links Practice(s) Awarded Bangladesh Social Protection Developing a $182,500 • Development of M&E framework and Jobs Monitoring & • Implementation of M&E framework Evaluation System • Customization of interventions, including for Nurturing Care curriculum and digital tools Interventions • Training, dissemination, and policy dialogue Dominican Education / Enhancing equitable • Adapt a learning measurement tool for the $63,000 Republic Poverty and access and improving early grades, pilot it, and evaluate it Equity the quality of ECD • Conduct a diagnosis of the regulatory services in framework for ECE, map the services Dominican Republic available and the barriers to access them • Review quality standards for ECE services with the aim of improving quality measurement systems Ecuador Social Protection More and better data • Design and implementation of a pilot to $249,250 and Jobs to monitor quality of incorporate indicators of service quality, ECD services and ECD outcomes and parent behaviors through outcomes for regularly collected data tools • Technical assistance to connect newly collected data on quality of services, ECD evidence-based outcomes and parent behaviors in the policies in Ecuador national system for nominal information (SIIMIES) • Analysis of human resources and technological needs to scale-up at the national level the pilot to incorporate indicators of service quality and ECD outcomes Ethiopia Education Technical Assistance • MELQO Training of Trainers (ToT) $61,818 for Enhancing the Quality of National Early Childhood Education Assessment using MELQO Honduras Education / Promoting ECD • Adaptation of AIM-ECD tool for children 4-7 $250,000 & El Health, Nutrition measurement and years 11 months in El Salvador and Honduras Salvador and Population policy monitoring in and implementation training for Honduras’s Honduras and El government Salvador • Application of AIM-ECD tool at scale in Honduras • Generation of capacity building for governments to develop an ECD policy’s monitoring system in El Salvador Kenya Education National Survey to • Preparation of the survey methodology and $250,000 Measure Pre-primary instruments to measure Pre-primary learners' Learners' foundation learning Achievements in • Conduct the survey, including data analysis Foundational and report writing Learning (Early • Dissemination of survey findings at national and county levels Literacy and • Capacity building/training of pre-school Numeracy) teachers on the revised KSRAT, 2022 Edition Morocco Education Building an • Enhancing the quality of multidimensional $216,000 integrated M&E tools to measure ECE outputs and outcomes system for ECE • Supporting the design of an integrated M&E provision in Morocco system for ECE • Strengthening capacity at all levels to use data to inform practices and policies Nigeria Other Measuring ECD in • Data collection of the Caregiver Report (CR) $233,314 Nigeria module of the Anchor Items for Measurement of Early Childhood Development (AIM-ECD) in Nigeria • Country analysis report • Training and data collection guidance note for collecting data of the Caregiver Report Modules Philippines, Education / Multisectoral ECD • Assess the quality and use of the ECCD $250,000 the Health, Nutrition database Checklist and Population / • Train and monitor CDTs/CDWs to use the ECE Social Protection measurement tool and Jobs • Analysis of ECE measurement results Regional Education / Measuring parenting • Phone survey evaluating household risk $115,625 AFW Health, Nutrition practices, risks to factors to ECD and parenting practices and Population ECD, and access to • Global desk review examining relevant, losw, support using phone cost-effective interventions to enhance surveys in West parenting practices Africa Regional Education Assessing and • Strengthen capacity to measure school $250,000 Pacific supporting quality of readiness and understand home ECE in Pacific Islands environments • Strengthen government capacity to understand and improve teaching practices in ECE centers • Support data driven design of TPD programs for ECE centers for the Pacific Region • Knowledge Sharing in the Pacific Region Vietnam Education / Vietnam Quality Early • Technical assistance for MOET to develop $245,075 Social Protection Childhood Education training materials for teachers, assistants, and and Jobs / Project managers to implement the pilot of the new Gender and national curriculum framework and provide Economic training of trainers (QEL) Inclusion / • Collect data on child development and Poverty / IFC learning and enabling factors - pedagogy, classroom activities, interactional and care quality - mainly with TEACH ECE, EAP-ECDS, and HOME, to support the development of a new national curriculum and training for teachers, assistants and managers (MEASURE) • Evaluate impact of the piloted curriculum and training framework on child development and learning and enabling factors - pedagogy, classroom activities, interactional and care quality - and support the development of the national curriculum and training for teachers, assistants and managers (MEASURE) • Technical assistance for MOET to conduct a review of the quality assurance mechanisms, revise the regulations for independent kindergarten settings, and develop implementation guidelines (QEL) • Evaluate the feasibility and options for the Government's interventions and a potential WB project to scale up quality independent kindergarten settings in ethnic minority, mountainous areas and rural poor (QEL) Total $2,366,582