ELP Grants and Country Work Thematic Round: Quality, Playful Early Learning (2020-2022) Funds Country GP(s) Name of Grant Key Activities Related Links Awarded Bangladesh Education Support to Improve Improve quality of preschool under the WB QLEAP project $99,000 Quality of Early by: Childhood Education in • Reviewing the current preschool teacher foundational Bangladesh training and support development of Advanced PPE Certification for Teachers • Supporting development of preschool Principal/Head Teacher Training Program • Supporting development of Teacher Training Package for additional year of preschool Cambodia Education A Pilot of School-Based • Conduct an assessment of 3–5-year-old students who $115,000 Management in Early come to enroll in targeted preschools and their Childhood Education parents at the beginning and at the end of academic Sub-Sector to Improve year to see changes the Quality and Increase • Provide training to (1) school principals and some selected core commune representatives on school- Local Investment based management and (2) teachers on teaching pedagogy (in-service training and coaching) to support the management of the preschools • Strengthen monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacities of schools, sub-national (district and province) and national levels to support quality in preschools. Honduras Education ECE Quality Standards • Revision of current standards for ECE $260,000 and Learning through • Revision of current curricular design and pedagogy in Play Parenting Program ECE • Diagnostic of the application of the current standards in the classroom concluding in a final proposal of revised ECE standards • Outreach Program of Playful-Learning Parenting: Promote playful learning through an outreach program for parents (via messaging and other means) that weaves playful learning principles and activities into nurturing parenting practices. Kosovo Education Modelling Scalable Early Conducting the following activities complement ongoing $70,000 Childhood Education in government, WB and partner efforts to inform the reform Kosovo of the preschool sector: • Costing of current pre-school modalities in Kosovo including public, community-based, and public-private partnership kindergartens. • Developing options for scalable financing models that include a cross sectoral approach and broader ECD investments in pre-school education and care. • Supporting development of pre-school framework for education and care, including considerations of cross- sectoral initiatives to facilitate school-readiness. Mexico Education Measuring • Data collection of 1,500 telephone surveys to primary $30,000 Socioemotional Skills in caregivers of preschool children to measure children’s Preschools wellbeing. • Adaptation of the Center of Healthy Minds’ mobile App to the Mexican context and data collection. Uzbekistan Education Innovative Playful • Develop and use interactive, video-based training $235,000 Learning Approaches to modules to boost the capacity of preschool teachers to Improve Children’s use play-based learning approaches to support school Readiness for Primary readiness. Education in Uzbekistan • Design an application for use on mobile phones or tablets to disseminate key messages and teaching resources (e.g., audio files, texts, stories, links to free online digital resources) to reinforce and support the implementation of playful early learning approaches. • Track and evaluate the take up and extent to which these innovations advance child-center, play-based practices in the classroom and in the home. • Develop and disseminate a policy brief with specific recommendations for pre- and in-service teacher training (approaches and content) based on the implementation evidence gathered through the activities mentioned above. Zimbabwe Education Quality Learning • Conducting a national baseline survey on the current $80,000 Through Play and implementation of play-based pedagogy and Resilience promotion of Play and resilience in ECD • Developing Multimedia Training Materials on quality Learning Through play and resilience in ECD • Capacity Building to promote the use of Learning through Play to promote children’s resilience in ECD • Monitoring and Evaluation of post training implementation of learning through play in the Model ECD Centers Total $889,000