Stories we have lived, stories we have learned : about Early Childhood Development Programmes : a stock-taking of the effectiveness initiative
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Abstract:
The Effectiveness Initiative (EI) was undertaken by the Bernard van Leer Foundation in 1999 with the announced purpose of exploring the attributes and the sources of the effectiveness of a small group of early childhood development programmes. Each programme was widely recognised as ‘effective’ in the broad sense that they were meeting the basic developmental needs and enhancing the health and welfare of young children and their families and had shown a good track record for a minimum of ten years. Teams were put together to observe the programmes close up and talk with personnel and members of the beneficiary populations. After several years of this activity, which included the collection of a great deal of raw data and substantial documentation on the programmes, the teams drafted and submitted reports to the Foundation. This publication has been prepared on the basis of those reports, as well as other documentation created by the teams and the Foundation during the course of the EI exploration. It is solidly grounded on the philosophy that gave rise to the EI: if effectiveness is tied to a programme’s impact, then a fruitful approach to the examination of effectiveness would be to provide programme stakeholders with the time, the space and the means to reflect on and give expression to their perspectives and opinions about the programmes. It was felt that the stakeholders alone had satisfactory familiarity with the programmes. They alone knew in fine detail the contexts and impacts of the programmes in terms of the daily lives of their children, their spouses, their neighbours and their communities.
Country:
Colombia
,
Honduras
,
India
,
Israel
,
Kenya
,
Peru
,
Philippines
,
Portugal
Category:
Practice
Editor:
Zimmermann, R.
ISBN:
90-6195-073-2
Keywords:
children
,
aid programmes
,
evaluation
Language:
eng
Organization:
Bernard van Leer Foundation
PAGE:
xix, 193
Place:
The Hague
Publisher:
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Year:
2004
Region:
Global
Right:
© 2004 Bernard van Leer Foundation
Subject:
Culture, Society and Religion
Title:
Stories we have lived, stories we have learned : about Early Childhood Development Programmes : a stock-taking of the effectiveness initiative