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Scaling up mother tongue-based preschool in Odisha
In March 2016, the Bernard van Leer Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Women and Child Development Department of the…
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Case study on Roma inclusion published in Italian
Now available to download: Rom: empowerment e sostegno per l’inclusione (an Italian translation of Roma empowerment and support for inclusion). It is a…
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How cities can use dashboards to make better decisions about early childhood
One of the tools used by cities as they collect more data is a “dashboard”: a tool for collating and sharing data…
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How the Bogotá Urban95 team chose where to pilot their work
In which area of Bogotá should we pilot our Urban95 intervention? We spent four months gathering and analysing data to choose first…
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Empowering the last mile workers – Scaling up early learning programme through workforce development
Seven thousand people to be trained in three months? Are you crazy? This is what I was told by Professor Mukti Kanta…
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The Beginning of Life documentary
Available on Netflix and other platforms, and in multiple languages, the documentary The Beginning of Life (O Começo da Vida) emotionally brings…
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Helping parents in the Netherlands to keep all their plates spinning
With only a simple technique using a small stick, Chinese acrobats have been performing the tradition of “plate spinning”. Acrobats are challenged…
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Engaging Kids to Make São Paulo’s Streets Safer
Children building themselves a tyre swing in a public play space may sound like an unremarkable, everyday event rather than the stuff…
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‘Saving Brains’ Research Links Breastfeeding and Early Play to Later Success
Canadian Government-funded “Saving Brains” research finds: Babies exclusively breastfed to six months old half as likely to have later conduct disorders; Enriched…
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Time to Think Scale
In Jamaica, over 90% of 3-5 year olds regularly play, read, or sing songs with an adult in their household and over…
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Children are sanitation ambassadors in India
Open defecation is a particular problem for young children in Indian cities such as Bhubaneswar, with unhygienic conditions spreading diarrhoea and other…
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Building Africa’s first national pre-school system in Kenya
In the 1970s, post-independence Africa focused more on primary education than pre-school. The Foundation worked with the government of Kenya to create…