ELP Grants and Country Work Thematic Round: Childcare (2019-2023) Country GP(s) Name of Grant Key Activities Funds Awarded Related Links Bangladesh Education Support to Integrate • Assessment of Skills Training Needs of $75,360 Raising the Quality of 1 Childcare Workforce Childcare Workforce in Bangladesh Child Caregiving in Development through • Development of Skills Training Framework for Bangladesh TVET in Bangladesh the Childcare Workforce in Bangladesh Bangladesh Social Childcare Needs • Survey of low-income mothers in urban areas $100,000 2 Protection Assessment Study of • Survey of care providers and Jobs Urban Low-Income • Consultative workshop Mothers Burkina Faso Social Impact Evaluation of • Extended operation of mobile creches for 6 $75,000 Protection Mobile Childcare months and Jobs Centers Cameroon Social Piloting temporal • TA to facilitate the transition from creche to $50,000 Protection creches community preschool center and Jobs / Education Cote d’Ivoire Social Childcare diagnostic in • Diagnostic on childcare demand and supply in $75,000 Protection Cote d’Ivoire Cote d’Ivoire and Jobs • Operational recommendations to integrate childcare services in existing or upcoming WB projects • Dissemination of the diagnostic and recommendations Djibouti Education Djibouti Quality • Develop quality standards and a quality $98,000 Improvement in assurance mechanism for childcare settings Childcare Settings • Develop childcare quality package DRC Social DRC – Mobile Childcare • TA for the development of the mobile $50,000 Protection for community works childcare system and Jobs program in Ebola- • Outreach to local stakeholders affected areas El Salvador Education/ Development of the • Analytical support to implement a PreK supply $100,000 Health, Early Childhood diagnostic Nutrition Development and • TA to develop an ECDLS proposal and final and Learning Standards report Population/ (ECDLS) in El Salvador • Workshops with key stakeholders to develop Social the ECDLS Protection • Validation process of ECDLS with key and Jobs stakeholders. Ethiopia Education Child Care Centers for • Training and coaching of care takers and $280,000 Productive Safety Net supervision Beneficiaries - Pilot • Procurement, Delivery and Setting up of the Child Care Space • Assess feasibility to align activities for impact evaluation Honduras Education Improving quality and • Systematic mapping of activities (2015 - 2022) $67,457 strengthening the by the main actors in the childcare and ECE enabling environment of childcare and early education in Honduras Honduras Poverty & Mapping of childcare • Supply assessments (urban Honduras) $176,390 Equity, programs and provision • Demand assessment (urban Honduras) Health, gaps in areas with • Analyze collected data Nutrition higher employment • Provide recommendations childcare program and opportunities for Population/ women in Honduras Education /Social Protection and Jobs Madagascar Social Madagascar Mobile • TA to develop a mobile creche model for PSNP $68,000 Protection Creches for Public Support to pilot mobile creches at PSNP work and Jobs Works Program sites • Incorporate mobile creches into program process evaluation including to assess quality Mozambique Social Alternative childcare in • Situation assessment: childcare arrangements $100,000 Childcare Arrangements Protection Mozambique and preferences in rural Mozambique for Low-Income and Jobs / • Review of international and national Families: Evidence from Other experiences of “alternative” childcare options Low and Middle-Income Countries Nigeria Education Childcare skills training • Labor market assessment of childcare in $60,000 for adolescent girls Northern Nigeria Saint Lucia Education / Home-Based Childcare • Situation assessment $60,750 Social for Human Capital • Technical assistance on regulation of home Protection Development in Saint childcare sector and Jobs Lucia • Technical assistance on training program for home childcare providers • Regional dissemination to OECS member states Total $1,435,957