ELP Grants and Country Work Thematic Round: COVID-19 (2020-2021) Funds Country GP(s) Name of Grant Key Activities Related Links Awarded Algeria Education Tools for children, Support the integration of ECE content into the $35,000 parents and educators to government’s remote learning platform ensure well-being and through: learning at pre-school • Developing preschool TV programs level during and after • Developing TV lessons targeting COVID-19 parents/caregivers Angola Education Ensure learning support • Produce and broadcast preliteracy, numeracy $39,313 and opportunities to and socio-emotional learning and learn through play development activities for preschool children using TV and Interactive Radio Instruction • Produce and adapt picture books, early learning kits and play materials to support TV instruction Armenia Education Enhancing the resilience • Train preschool staff to enhance their skills, $49,750 of preschool capacity and preparedness for adversity and establishments and crises and extend moral support to children Introducing a model for and parents during the COVID-19 crisis care service delivery in • Design a model for care service delivery for emergency situations in children of frontline workers in emergency Armenia situations and pilot in two preschools Brazil Social Adaptation of Brazil’s Support the adaptation of the Criança Feliz $43,000 Criança Feliz Protection parenting program to program to the COVID-19 crisis through: and Jobs provide remote support • Content design for remote parenting modality through the radio, text messages/ WhatsApp, and phone counseling • Adaptation of content for indigenous families • Design of monitoring tool for remote parenting modality China Education COVID-19 response for • Develop a note on China’s (esp. Yunnan’s) $30,000 COVID-19 Response for (Yunnan early childhood education supporting mechanisms for children, parents Early Childhood province) in Yunnan and teachers during kindergarten closure and Education (ECE) in preparation for re-opening Yunnan Province, China • Provide technical assistance to ensure a safe and smooth transition for kindergarten re- opening Organize knowledge sharing webinar(s) Colombia Social Improving the Provide technical assistance to the Instituto $48,500 Instituto Colombiano de Protection effectiveness of ECD Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) on: Bienestar Familiar - and Jobs interventions in the • Monitoring plan for service delivery during the Bienestar APP context of COVID-19 crisis including monitoring of: (i) food delivery; (ii) distribution of learning materials (Kits Lanzamiento Bienestar Pedagógicos); and, (iii) telephone follow-ups App with vulnerable families. • Development and implementation of an app to monitor ECD Services in real-time Croatia Health, E-education for • Develop e-course for pregnant $20,000 RODA.hr Nutrition pregnancy and parenting women/families and during COVID-19 Population/ Education/ Social Protection and Jobs Democratic Education Adapt existing Interactive • Adapt six existing Interactive Audio Instruction $35,000 Expanding Access to Republic of Audio Instruction (IAI) (IAI) sessions for parents/caregivers to Early Childhood Congo modules for radio support ECD outcomes (developed to support Development Using broadcast to support ECE teachers in 2014/15 following extensive Interactive Audio parents of young children consultation with communities Instruction at home • Broadcast modules as part of the government’s remote learning program Ecuador Social Taking care of young Support the transition of child support services $50,000 Protection children during the that accompany a cash transfer program to virtual and Jobs pandemic: Making home outreach by visits virtual • Preparing guidelines and protocols to transform home visits and group parenting approaches to be delivered via national cash transfer program into telephone calls and text messages. • Collecting/ analyzing feedback from end-users and educadoras (social workers conducting home visit) • Preparing technical requirements for scaling up virtual home visits to all beneficiaries of WB project El Salvador Education Caring for the children: El • Ensure relevant and adequate provision of $30,000 Salvador’s response to pedagogical resources for ECCE remote support children’s education during the COVID19 emergency development during • Promote non-violent parental practices during COVID19 emergencies: participation in an impact evaluation of a text-messaging intervention with stress coping and non-violent parenting materials • Complete the diagnostic of structural quality standards Ethiopia Social Temporary income • Develop messaging for Temporary Income $43,000 Protection support through Support (WB project responding to the COVID- and Jobs Ethiopia’s Urban 19 crisis) beneficiaries with children under 5 Productive Safety Net years of age on coping/stress management, Project nutrition, hygiene, playful parenting and early stimulation • Provide advice and practical help on convenient delivery platforms to deliver the messages with the government contact points where beneficiaries collect income support such as Banks, shops or woreda offices or job centers. In addition, social media and radio messaging will be explored. Guyana Education Support to the nursery • Develop assessment instrument to measure $50,000 education sector learning loss response strategy for • Create content for 20 interactive radio/TV COVID-19 lessons • Provide learning resources to support home- based learning Honduras Education Strengthening early • Develop an Early Childhood Education $26,915 childhood education in Strategy to respond to the COVID-19 COVID times pandemic for both the coping and the recovery Phases • Adapt ECE content and delivery during COVID- 19 emergency. • Design a communication campaign to promote early childhood development and learning Indonesia EDU Technical assistance to • Develop manual for parents to play with $50,000 Parent Sharing Classes “My Home My School” children and promote child development and (YouTube) movement in ECED by the complementary tools Ministry of Education and • Technical support to government in delivery Pocket Books Culture (MoEC) as part of • Technical support in monitoring and the education response evaluation Guidelines and to Covid-19 Circulation Letter related to ECED Services Kosovo Education COVID-19 support for • Distribute play-based learning materials and $50,000 ECD story books to the most disadvantaged households • ECE campaign for back to school • Outreach to parents through messaging on coping through TV and social media Madagascar Health, Scaling up LNS: Improving • Develop standard operating protocols for $30,000 Nutrition the quality of ECD lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) and services to infants and delivery and distribution Population young children • Strengthen community monitoring system for LNS and ECD outcomes Malawi Education Improved early childhood • Provide technical support for the expansion of $40,000 development and quality early learning and stimulation interventions service in COVID-19 through IAI emergency • Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for IAI Morocco Education Supporting parents and • Develop guidance material for pre-schools $50,000 educators to ensure educators children’s well-being and • Support to parents via TV/radio, text learning during and after messages and public awareness campaign COVID-19 North Education/ Supporting ECD during • Purchase the unlimited TV rights to broadcast $37,000 Macedonia Social COVID-19 in North 98 episodes of Sesame Street for two years Protection Macedonia • Support the local adaptation, translation, and Jobs casting, voice-overs in both Macedonian and Albanian language Pakistan Education Providing information • Develop and air public service messages on $49,000 and play materials to supporting children’s health and wellbeing parents to promote early and coping strategies during COVID-19 crisis childhood development • Develop and distribute educational videos on during and beyond the play-based learning via social media, TV and COVID-19 crisis in Punjab the government’s online learning platform • Develop 20 activity cards for parents, suggesting activities that strengthen children’s competencies in each of the six key development areas endorsed in the provincial curriculum for the government to distribute Paraguay Education/ Supporting pregnancy • Develop ECD communication/ education $30,000 Kunu’u: una estrategia Social and birth during the strategy for coping with and responding to que prioriza a la Primera Protection COVID-19 crisis: A COVID-19 Infancia and communication platform • Produce materials (videos, visuals, radio Jobs/Health, for ECD impact programs) to share messaging with caregivers Kunu'u YouTube Nutrition • “ECD in Emergency” Campaign dissemination platform and of materials Population • Process evaluation of dissemination activities Kunu’u Facebook platform Kunu’u Instagram platform Kunu’u Twitter platform Peru Education/ Peru: Supporting delivery • Develop guidelines to implement remote $50,000 Supporting early Social of ECD interventions in counseling services for parents and caregivers childhood development Protection the context of COVID-19 • TA to accompany the design and during COVID-19 in Peru and Jobs implementation of an educational communication strategy Midis Cuna Mas • Develop an app to monitor families (Facebook) Republic of Education Promoting ECD through • Adapt existing Interactive Audio Instruction $50,000 Congo radio and TV educational (IAI) sessions for parents and caregivers to sessions for parents and support ECD outcomes. young children • Broadcast modules as part of the government’s remote learning program Sao Tome Social Implementing ECD- • Develop operational guidelines and protocols $40,000 and Principe Protection sensitive shock response and institutional arrangement and and Jobs program for COVID-19 coordination to prioritize households with response children within COVID-19 response being prepared by WB and gov’t • Develop communication material on ECD to be distributed to these households Sierra Leone Social Improving access to early • Develop/finetune and print simple key $30,000 Protection childhood development messages on ECD to be delivered to and Jobs/ services in Sierra Leone caregivers with children aged 0-8 who are Education beneficiaries of a cash transfer program • Provide TA to develop lessons for radio in partnership with UNICEF to ensure young children access learning materials during COVID-19 Tajikistan Health, Phone-based survey for • Implement phone-based survey of the effects $48,300 Nutrition ECD-sensitive emergency of a cash transfer program (triggered by and cash transfers in spikes in prices of core food items) with Population/ Tajikistan accompanying measures to promote early Education/ childhood stimulation, nutrition, hygiene, Poverty preventive health services and infection prevention messaging • Data collected will be used to adjust programming and make case for more investment in young children Uganda Education Parenting education and • TA to support the implementation of the $35,000 support for early learning Ugandan government's Parent Book (practical continuity in COVID-19 ideas for parents to protect and promote 3–5- year-old children’s development) • Broadcast parenting sessions via Radio and TV Total $1,089,778