List of ELP Grants and Country Work: Phase 3 (2020-2021) Thematic Round: COVID-19 Country GP(s) Name of Grant Outputs Funds Related Links Awarded Algeria EDU Tools for children, parents and Support the integration of ECE content into the $35,000 educators to ensure well-being government’s remote learning platform and learning at pre-school level through: during and after COVID-19 • Developing preschool TV programs • Developing TV lessons targeting parents/caregivers Angola EDU Ensure learning support and • Produce and broadcast preliteracy, $39,313 opportunities to learn through numeracy and socio-emotional learning play and 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 EDU Enhancing the resilience of • Train preschool staff to enhance their $49,740 preschool establishments and skills, capacity and preparedness for Introducing a model for care adversity and crises and extend moral service delivery in emergency support to children and parents during the situations in Armenia COVID-19 crisis • Design a model for care service delivery for children of frontline workers in emergency situations and pilot in two preschools Brazil SPJ Adaptation of Brazil’s parenting Support the adaptation of the Criança Feliz $43,000 Criança Feliz program to provide remote program to the COVID-19 crisis through: 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 Colombia SPJ Improving the effectiveness of Provide technical assistance to the Instituto $48,500 Instituto Colombiano de ECD interventions in the Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) on: Bienestar Familiar - context of COVID-19 • Monitoring plan for service delivery during Bienestar APP the crisis including monitoring of: (i) food delivery; (ii) distribution of learning Lanzamiento Bienestar App materials (Kits Pedagógicos); and, (iii) telephone follow-ups with vulnerable families. • Development and implementation of an app to monitor ECD Services in real-time China EDU COVID-19 response for early • Develop a note on China’s (esp. Yunnan’s) $30,000 COVID-19 Response for (Yunnan childhood education in Yunnan supporting mechanisms for children, Early Childhood Education province) parents and teachers during kindergarten (ECE) in Yunnan Province, closure and preparation for re-opening China • Provide technical assistance to ensure a safe and smooth transition for kindergarten re-opening • Organize knowledge sharing webinar(s) Croatia HNP, E-education for pregnancy and • Develop e-course for pregnant $20,000 RODA.hr EDU, parenting during COVID-19 women/families SPJ Democratic EDU Adapt existing Interactive • Adapt six existing Interactive Audio $35,000 Expanding Access to Early Republic of Audio Instruction (IAI) modules Instruction (IAI) sessions for Childhood Development Congo for radio broadcast to support parents/caregivers to support ECD parents of young children at outcomes (developed to support ECE Using Interactive Audio home teachers in 2014/15 following extensive Instruction consultation with communities • Broadcast modules as part of the government’s remote learning program Ecuador SPJ Taking care of young children Support the transition of child support $50,000 during the pandemic: Making services that accompany a cash transfer home visits virtual program to virtual outreach by • 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 EDU Caring for the children: El • Ensure relevant and adequate provision of $30,000 Salvador’s response to support pedagogical resources for ECCE remote children’s development during education during the COVID19 emergency COVID19 • Promote non-violent parental practices during 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 SPJ Temporary income support • Develop messaging for Temporary Income $43,000 through Ethiopia’s Urban Support (WB project responding to the Productive Safety Net Project COVID-19 crisis) beneficiaries with children under 5 years of age on coping/stress management, 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 EDU Support to the nursery • Develop assessment instrument to $50,000 education sector response measure learning loss strategy for COVID-19 • Create content for 20 interactive radio/TV lessons • Provide learning resources to support home-based learning Honduras EDU Strengthening early childhood • Develop an Early Childhood Education $26,915 education in COVID times Strategy to respond to the COVID-19 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 “My • Develop manual for parents to play with $50,000 Parent Sharing Classes Home My School” movement in children and promote child development (YouTube) ECED by the Ministry of and complementary tools Education and Culture (MoEC) • Technical support to government in Pocket Books as part of the education delivery response to Covid-19 • Technical support in monitoring and Guidelines and Circulation evaluation Letter related to ECED Services Kosovo EDU COVID-19 support for ECD • Distribute play-based learning materials $50,000 and 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 HNP Scaling up LNS: Improving the • Develop standard operating protocols for $30,000 quality of ECD services to lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) infants and young children delivery and distribution • Strengthen community monitoring system for LNS and ECD outcomes Malawi EDU Improved early childhood • Provide technical support for the $40,000 development and quality expansion of early learning and service in COVID-19 emergency stimulation interventions through IAI • Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for IAI Morocco EDU Supporting parents and • Develop guidance material for pre-schools $50,000 educators to ensure children’s educators well-being and learning during • Support to parents via TV/radio, text and after COVID-19 messages and public awareness campaign North EDU, Supporting ECD during COVID- • Purchase the unlimited TV rights to $37,000 Macedonia SPJ 19 in North Macedonia broadcast 98 episodes of Sesame Street for two years • Support the local adaptation, translation, casting, voice-overs in both Macedonian and Albanian language Pakistan EDU Providing information and play • Develop and air public service messages $49,000 materials to parents to on supporting children’s health and promote early childhood wellbeing and coping strategies during development during and COVID-19 crisis beyond the COVID-19 crisis in • Develop and distribute educational videos Punjab on play-based learning via social media, TV and 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 EDU, Supporting pregnancy and • Develop ECD communication/ education $30,000 Kunu’u: una estrategia que SPJ, birth during the COVID-19 strategy for coping with and responding to prioriza a la Primera HNP crisis: A communication COVID-19 Infancia platform for ECD impact • Produce materials (videos, visuals, radio programs) to share messaging with Kunu'u YouTube platform caregivers • “ECD in Emergency” Campaign Kunu’u Facebook platform dissemination of materials • Process evaluation of dissemination Kunu’u Instagram platform activities Kunu’u Twitter platform Peru EDU, Peru: Supporting delivery of • Develop guidelines to implement remote $50,000 Supporting early childhood SPJ ECD interventions in the counseling services for parents and development during COVID- context of COVID-19 caregivers 19 in Peru • TA to accompany the design and implementation of an educational Midis Cuna Mas (Facebook) communication strategy • Develop an app to monitor families Sao Tome SPJ Implementing ECD-sensitive • Develop operational guidelines and $40,000 and Principe shock response program for protocols and institutional arrangement COVID-19 response and coordination to prioritize households with 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 SPJ, Improving access to early • Develop/finetune and print simple key $30,000 EDU childhood development messages on ECD to be delivered to services in Sierra Leone caregivers with children aged 0-8 who are 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 HNP, Phone-based survey for ECD- • Implement phone-based survey of the $48,300 EDU, sensitive emergency cash effects of a cash transfer program Poverty transfers in Tajikistan (triggered by spikes in prices of core food items) with accompanying measures to promote early childhood stimulation, nutrition, hygiene, 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 EDU Parenting education and • TA to support the implementation of the $35,000 support for early learning Ugandan government's Parent Book continuity in COVID-19 (practical ideas for parents to protect and promote 3–5-year-old children’s development) • Broadcast parenting sessions via Radio and TV Republic of EDU Promoting ECD through radio • Adapt existing Interactive Audio $50,000 Congo and TV educational sessions Instruction (IAI) sessions for parents and for parents and young children caregivers to support ECD outcomes. • Broadcast modules as part of the government’s remote learning program Total $1,435,957