ELP Grants and Country Work Grants Awarded on a Rolling Basis (2012-2019) Funds Country GP(s) Name of Grant Key Activities Related Links Awarded Afghanistan Education Building Blocks for • SABER-ECD country report $150,000 Afghanistan – World ECD and Early • National ECD strategy and costed implementation plan Bank Country Page Learning • Early learning assessment tool and pilot results Opportunities in Afghanistan Bangladesh 1 Social ECD through • Design and test appropriate ECD interventions and $170,000 Income Support Protection Income Support material Program for the and Jobs Program for the • Beneficiary assessments to test effectiveness of Poorest Project Poorest materials Bangladesh – World • Design of M&E tools, including Knowledge, Attitude and Bank Country Page Practice (KAP) assessments to evaluate the quality-of- service delivery and mothers’ retention and application of knowledge from the sessions Bangladesh 2 Education Support to the • Assessment of governance and management of ECE $44,000 The Landscape of Landscape of Early provision in Bangladesh: analysis of information Early Childhood Childhood collected through key informant interviews with ECE Development in Education in policymakers and administrators, and desk reviews of Bangladesh Bangladesh ASA policies, strategies, plans and other pertinent records, and financing data related to ECE provision and key informant interviews with ECE policymakers and administrators • Analysis of access and equity of ECE in Bangladesh: in- depth analysis of the access and equity status, challenges and policy options in ECE provision in Bangladesh Burkina Faso Education • Produce SABER-ECD country report $ 45,000 1 • Conduct feasibility assessment of the integration of ECD activities in secondary/tertiary education components of an IDA project • Prepare ECD subcomponent in secondary/tertiary IDA project Concept Note and PAD Burkina Faso Social Implementation • Expert consultant TA to develop detailed $100,000 Education Access and 2 Protection Support for ECD implementation arrangements and provide support Quality Improvement and Jobs Activities Linked to during implementation of ECD/nutrition focused Project (EAQIP) Cash Transfers promotional activities Burkina Faso – World • Communication material design Bank Country Page • Pilot test and evaluation of the communication instruments in some project areas • Capacity building to strengthen the MASSNs continued implementation of social and behavior change communication for ECD/nutrition Burkina Faso Education Improving • Supervision of the ECD component over 4 years $128,050 Interactive Audio 3 Preschool Quality • Process evaluation of the Interactive Audio Instruction Instruction full toolkit through Interactive program implementation Audio Instruction Burkina Faso Social Garderies • Development of concept for mobile childcare 'garderie $245,000 Enabling Women to 4 Protection Ambulantes/ ambulante' Work and Their and Jobs Mobile Creches for • Adaptation of ECD tools from Burkina SSN project Children to Blossom: Mothers Working • Qualitative Evaluation The Double Success on Cash for Work • Supervision of garderies ambulantes/mobile creches Story of Mobile Activities Childcare in Burkina Faso Cameroon 1 Education Cameroon • Development of behavior change and communication $250,000 /Health, Multisectoral Early modules on early stimulation and infant/child health, Nutrition Years Initiative for parental training, and nutrition practices and At-Risk Populations Population • TA for further institutionalizing and prioritizing / Social nutrition and strengthen government coordination Protection mechanisms for a multisectoral program and Jobs • Analytical work on existing data of what factors have significant effects on nutritional status and outcomes • TA to the MOE to set up the foundations of comprehensive early childhood education system, that will feed into the preparation of the proposed Education Sector Reform Project Cameroon 2 Education Basic Education • TA to municipalities/local councils to establish $284,685 Performance Community Preschool Centers (CPC) according to set Project standards • TA to Government to develop an M&E system for the CPC, foster partnerships between the CPC and private sector and maintain good water, sanitation, nutrition and hygienic conditions • Adaptation and piloting of the MELQO Democratic Education • Produce SABER-ECD country report $ 30,000 The Democratic Republic of • Design a costed implementation plan for ECD in DRC Republic of Congo Congo 1 • Produce a dissemination plan using SABER-ECD Early Childhood recommendation Development – • Produce leaflets SABER Country • Organize informative workshop and conference Report 2014 • Final report Democratic Education/ DRC ECD and • Development of a parental education training program $200,000 Interactive Audio Republic of Health, Quality Education • Enhancement of health and community workers’ skills Instruction full toolkit Congo 2 Nutrition Project in child development IAI in DRC Video and • Integrated ECD interventions in project area: Pilot and SABER-ECD Country Population document an ECD model Report: DRC Democratic Republic of Congo – World Bank Country Page Democratic Education Implementation of • Development and implementation of curriculum and $281,950 Republic of the Childcare training materials and deliver training to childcare Congo 3 Intervention in the providers DRC • First wave of childcare centers established • Data on ECD outcomes collected Ethiopia Education TA to Incorporate • Identification/design of the package on impactful, cost- $200,000 Ethiopia – World Cost-Effective effective and scalable ECE interventions tailored to Bank Country Page Scalable ECE Ethiopian context and focused on education quality to Activities within IDA recommend options for national rollout Ethiopia General • Operationalization of the proposed interventions and Education Quality development of the respective ECE component within Improvement IDA GEQIP-II project to be financed through the GPE Project II (GEQIP-II project) Ghana Education Assessing • Data collection on a full sample of children to assess $146,233 Ghana – World Bank Sustained Impacts the impact of an early-childhood-education (ECE)- Country Page of the Quality system quality improvement project Preschool for • Assessment of sustained impacts on teaching quality Ghana (QP4G) • Assessment of sustained impacts on parent outcomes Teacher- and Parent-Training Programs Guinea Education Support to • Consultant fees for one or several ECD specialist $75,000 Preparation of Early • Travel costs for one or several ECD specialists Childhood throughout project preparation (an estimated five Development missions including identification, preparation, and Project for Guinea appraisal, and two additional missions) • Staff time for task teams for project management/project preparation (GED requirement) Guinea Education Improving the • National policy on pre-school education $145,000 Bissau Quality of Pre- • Developing a national curriculum for pre-school School Education in education Guinea Bissau • Knowledge exchange with Cabo Verde India 1 Education Strengthening Early • Develop ad high impact low curriculum and TLM $325,000 India – World Bank Grade Learning in package to facilitate two years of preschool education Country Page India across 350 classrooms • Deliver in- service teacher training on this curriculum with a focus on play-based learning to 250 teachers. • Develop and implement parental engagement strategies, including report cards to monitor child progress across a range of learning outcomes (based on age-appropriate assessment methods) • Test monitoring and assessment tools during the pilot evaluation Capacity building for state training institutions India 2 Education Evaluation Tools for • Further development of the Quality Evaluation and $200,000 ECE Child Assessment tools for Early Childhood Education namely the School Readiness Instrument (SRI) and Early Childhood Education Quality Assessment Scale (ECEQAS) • Pilot and standardization of the SRI and the ECEQAS tools India 3 Education / ECD and Preschool • Follow-up survey management costs $250,000 Health, Programs in Odisha • Follow-up survey operational costs Nutrition • Child assessments kits and licenses and Populatio Kenya 1 Education • Support ECD component within GPE project $ 58,000 preparation • Develop public-private partnerships to support ECD • Preparation of costed implementation plan at country level Kenya 2 Education Early Childhood • Report on the feasibility of a full scale RCT (to be $42,000 Kenya – World Bank Education for the determined through piloting and monitoring of take- Poor up, validity of instruments) Kenya 3 Education EMERGE Reading • Development of content for and refining caregiver $467,000 SIEF: EMERGE dialogic training Reading • Development and refinement of book content • Process evaluation • Options for a community-based delivery modality • Endline data on siblings age 24-35 months at baseline • Time use data for primary caregivers Kenya 4 Education Early Childhood • Support knowledge sharing on good global practices $250,000 Development and on ECDE teacher curriculum and Dissemination of the Education (ECDE) ECD studies for Kenya Teacher Education • Support development of the actual ECDE pre-service Curriculum Review curriculum Support Lesotho Education Effectiveness of • Diagnostic of ECCD Service Models in Lesotho $201,000 Lesotho – World Bank ECD Service Models • Financial Simulation Model of ECCD for Education Country Page in Lesotho Sector Plan • Assessment of Early Learning and Reading Assessments in ECCD models in Lesotho Liberia 1 Education • Report describing the operational how-to of the $ 45,000 current EPAG childcare component, the quality of the childcare and parenting skills training provided, the feasibility of offering ECD childcare training as a training track, and recommendations for improvement and scale-up • Implementation manual component • Back-to-office mission reports Liberia 2 Education Economic • Curriculum for ECD job skills training for women $1,578,000 Economic Empowerment of developed based on available existing ECD curricula Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and EPAG training materials Adolescent Girls and (EPAG) and Young • 3 cohorts graduated from the ECD job skills training Young Women in Women: ECD program Liberia Practitioner SABER-ECD Country Training in Liberia Report: Liberia • Pilot of an ECD Entrepreneurship program targeting Adolescent Girls graduates of the training and entrepreneurship Initiative activities Liberia – World Bank • Rigorous process and impact evaluations conducted of Country Page both ECD job skills training and entrepreneurship program Madagascar 1 Education • Concept note for ECD Diagnostic detailing $ 125,000 methodology and geographic scope • Draft diagnostic report • Final report • Dissemination workshop with Ministry, Partners and other stakeholders • Further definition of the strategies and policies based on the diagnostic (funded through the GPE Project) • Concept Note for the pilot activities • Methodology for the implementation and evaluation of the pilot activities Madagascar 2 Health, Madagascar: An • SABER-ECD assessment $90,000 SABER – ECD Nutrition Integrated • Finalization and dissemination of ECCE diagnostic Madagascar – World and Approach to survey report Bank Country Page Population Improving ECD • Operational manual/protocols for group-based / Education Outcomes stimulation activities • Co-funding midline survey: data documentation, survey report • Process evaluation on integrating nutrition/early stimulation activities Madagascar 3 Social Strengthening ECD • Improvement of the effectiveness of ongoing ECD $249,750 Emergency Support Protection in SSN Programs modules in Social Safety Net Programs to Education for all and Jobs • Development of a set of tools and toys for early Project in stimulation of children 0-5, in collaboration with HNP Madagascar and EDU colleagues Addressing Chronic Malnutrition in Madagascar • Design of an ECD approach for the Emergency Drought Madagascar Response program in the South of Madagascar, for Emergency Support Nutrition and SSN services to Critical Education, • South-south knowledge exchange to share best Health, and Nutrition practices on ECD Service Project Malawi 1 Education • Back To Office Reports from a survey training mission $ 66,000 • Dataset from 2014 survey of centers, including classroom observations and class center questionnaire • Policy Note on School Readiness in Malawi Malawi 2 Education ECD Needs of • Workshop to present country diagnostic and $35,000 Protecting Early Children Born to international evidence (including participation by WB Childhood Teenage Mothers staff, rental of workshop venue, catering and relevant Development in equipment for 50 participants) Malawi • Printing of policy briefs Malawi – World Bank Country Page Malawi 3 Education Improved • Consolidation of government ECD data management $250,000 SIEF: Effects of Measurement of and information system Quality Improvement ECD and Service • Piloting of Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI) through Strategies on ECD in Quality in Malawi Community Based Child Care Centers(CBCCs) in Malawi selected districts Mali Education ECD Intervention in • Baseline study of the areas of interventions $204,000 Mali – World Bank Target Areas of • Research report on ECD interventions in vulnerable Country Page Bamako, Segou, environments and cost information and Sikasso • Proposal of RETF for the targeted areas Mauritania Social Kick Starting Early • Development and testing of early learning materials $220,000 Mauritania Social Protection Learning in • Development and testing of delivery platforms (visual Safety Net System and Jobs Mauritania and audio) Mauritania – World • Piloting of the intervention among CCT beneficiaries Bank Country Page • Implementation plan for national scale-up • Baseline data collection on early learning and ECD for impact evaluation • Dissemination and advocacy for early learning in Mauritania MENA Education ECD - Impact • Capacity-building on impact evaluation and ECE $250,000 (Morocco, Evaluation measurement Jordan, Incubator • Partnerships developed between governments and Tunisia) researchers • Seed funding for IE in the region provided Mozambique Health, Support for Scaling- • Support of the current multi-sectoral impact evaluation $115,000 Mozambique Nutrition Up of ECD Activities and implementation a complementary process Education Sector and in Mozambique evaluation Support Project Population and Top-Up • Support to field supervision of nutrition and ECD Mozambique Funding for Impact interventions Community Nutrition Evaluation of an • Support to the Government in the design and Enhancement Project Integrated implementation of relevant South-South exchanges Scaling up the Nutrition and ECD Provision of Early Early Intervention Childhood Development and Early Nutrition Services in Mozambique Video: SIEF Preschool in Mozambique Mozambique – World Bank Country Page A Process Evaluation of the Mozambique Early Childhood Development Project (DICIPE) 2015-2019 Nepal Education Access and Quality • Analysis of: (i) constraints in access to early learning $210,000 of Early Learning services, with an emphasis on under- and un-served Services in Nepal populations; (ii) analysis of quality of early learning delivered in ECD centers and pre-primary classes (PPC) • Identifying effective delivery mechanisms for quality ECE, with special focus on two aspects: (i) how to make newly empowered local governments effective at ECE delivery; and (ii) venues for collaboration in the provision of holistic early childhood development through combined early learning and health and nutrition activities delivered through ECD centers and PPC • Generate information on feasible and low-cost ways for the decentralized education system to monitor quality of ECD delivery Niger 1 Education • Technical guide for parenting education component $ 95,000 • Technical supervision report with suggested improvements in implementation of parenting training component • Workshop with national ECD policymakers and donors to validate the tested implementation manual • Revised technical implementation manual for parenting training component • Brief that would summarize lessons learned and potential application for the region Niger 2 Social Supporting Quality • Implementation support during scale-up of parenting $170,000 Video: Niger invests Protection Scale-Up of training accompanying measures as part of Niger in early childhood and Jobs Parenting Training Safety Nets Project through social safety Accompanying • Quality assessment study during scale-up phase of nets Measures Aimed at parenting training accompanying measures and Niger Niger Safety Nets Promoting ECD safety nets project Project through the Niger • Report on determinants of ECD in rural Niger Niger – World Bank Safety Nets Project • Revision of technical guide for parenting training Country Page accompanying measures based on results of implementation study, impact evaluation and study on determinants of early childhood development in rural Niger Niger 3 Education Improving the • Design and implementation of the ECE component for $163,055 Quality of Early the Niger Learning Improvement for Results in Learning in Niger Education Project • Support to the National Workshop on ECE provision in Niger • Baseline Survey of Koranic schools in Niger: Diagnostic and policy options Nigeria 1 Education • Full-day ECD meeting in Abuja for state and national $ 65,000 officials held April 2013 • ECD incorporated as an eligible expense both at school grants level and for state level TA and teacher training in GPE project • Implementation manuals for School Grants Program • Technical Implementation manuals for ECCE education for teachers and trainers • Technical Implementation manuals for State and Local government ECD capacity building program Nigeria 2 Education Support for Start- • Support of GPE implementation $261,700 SABER-ECD Report: Up and • Diagnostic of non-formal ECD services Nigeria Implementation of • Strategic framework for ECD service provision Nigeria – World Bank ECD Activities in • Adaptation and piloting of MELQO Country Page Nigeria Pakistan 1 Education Early Childhood • New ECE policy $200,000 Pakistan – World Education TA • Support to the ECE DLI within the PESP III project, Bank Country Page including: advise on evaluation, quality assurance and Third Punjab technical assistance throughout Education Sector Project (PESPIII) Pakistan 2 Health, Integrating Early • Design of the Early Learning and Stimulation Training $249,950 Nutrition Learning and Curriculum and Materials for Health Functionaries and and Stimulation with Linkage of Materials with the Education Sector Early Population the Maternal-Child Childhood Development (ECD) Program to ensure Health-Nutrition continuity Service Delivery • Design of M&E Tools Platform in the • Training and M&E Support Sindh Province of • Rapid Assessment to Assess Quality and Coverage Pakistan Rwanda 1 Education • Take-stock note summarizing existing ECD approaches $ 100,000 and evaluation tools in Rwanda • Technical supervision from ECD experts during intervention development • Development of locally appropriate evaluation tools • Production of a manual and training tools for modules covering parenting, stimulation, and early learning (Family Strengthening Intervention-Rwanda, FSI-R) • Training of paraprofessionals on FSI-R ECD modules • Pre-testing phase of the FSI-R ECD modules • Workshop for validation of the finalized manual with VUP and other donors Rwanda 2 Social Child Sensitive • Integration of home visiting ECD parenting program $150,000 Rwanda – World Bank Protection Social Protection in with government’s system of community-based child Country Page and Jobs Rwanda: protection workers Integrating Family • Process and costing evaluation of linking ECD and Strengthening into social protection services in Rwanda Rwanda’s Social Protection System Rwanda 3 Social Project Preparation • Funding of the additional SP nutrition expert(s) to the $20,000 Social Protection Protection for Social Rwanda IPF preparation team System Support in and Jobs Protection Results - • TA to provide analytical and operational support to the Rwanda Rwanda preparation of a Social Protection IPF with a focus on ECD nutrition services Sierra Leone Education • ECD is included in the Education Sector Plan $ 90,000 Sierra Leone 1 • Pre-primary school pilot is included in the GPE project Education Sector Plan • Application for impact evaluation of GPE ECD activities 2018-2020 submitted to SIEF • Develop costed implementation plan for ECD (in collaboration with UNICEF) Sierra Leone Education Early Works: • Upgraded course content available for delivery of ECCE $200,000 Revitalizing Education 2 Building Core courses in participating teacher training colleges Development in Capacities for ECCE • ECCE coaching and mentoring system piloted in Sierra Leone Workforce participating teaching training colleges for effective SABER-ECD Country Development delivery of updated ECCE courses for all first-year Report: Sierra Leone (Phase II) students in certificate, diploma and degree tracks Sierra Leone – World Bank Country Page South Sudan Education Overview of ECD • A rapid assessment of the ECD sector carried out jointly $35,000 Landscape, with UNICEF-South Sudan Challenges, and Opportunities Sri Lanka Education Technical • Preparation of a national strategic plan for ECD sector $140,000 Sri Lanka- Early Assistance for the • Preparation of an implementation plan and training Childhood Preparation and modules for teacher training and training of trainers Development Project Launch of Sri • Development of ECD assessment tools Sri Lanka – World Lanka’s Early • Analysis of challenges in ECD access faced by hard-to- Bank Country Page Childhood reach populations Integrating Early Development • Analysis of access constraints in ECD services Childhood Care and Project • Analysis of and policy support for integrated centers Education in Sri for early childhood education and care (ECCE) for Lanka: From Global children 0-5 years old Evidence to National Action Sudan Education • Data collection instruments drafted $ 90,000 • Data collection • ECCE subsector strategy • Detailed diagnostic analysis of early childhood care and development, including preschool • Situation analysis with recommendations on curriculum, teacher training, and teaching and learning materials • Costed implementation plan Tanzania Education • ECD included in GPE as a component $ 20,000 Tanzania: Early SABER-ECD completed and disseminated Childhood • Develop costed ECD implementation plan Development • Promote coordination amongst ECD stakeholders and advocate for IECD policy The Gambia Education • Produce SABER-ECD country report $ 65,000 The Gambia Early • Prepare ECD component within Education Sector Plan Childhood • Develop costed implementation plan for ECD Development: SABER • Conduct early learning and reading assessments in Country Report 2013 ECD centers and lower primary classrooms for ongoing impact evaluation Uganda Education • GPE project includes US$4 million of funding for ECD $ 40,000 activities, including teacher training, capacity building, and policy reforms Zambia Education Improved • Mapping of ECE service providers in four rural $226,000 Measurement of provinces of Zambia Early Childhood • Demand assessment for ECD services in selected rural Development and districts Service Quality • Piloting of a low-cost habitation level community based (Part II) ECD centers in selected districts. (Zambia Early • Development of a policy framework to introduce the Childhood public-private partnership in ECD provision Development Technical Assistance) Zimbabwe Education Technical • A baseline survey of school leaders’ capacity for Early $200,000 Assistance: Childhood Education (ECE) instruction and Effective School organizational leadership Leadership for • A training program for school leaders on effective ECD Improved ECD instruction and school leadership for improved ECE Education Total $10,306,373