Early Childhood Development

Scaling Early Childhood Development and Nutrition Service Delivery The Government of Côte d’Ivoire, philanthropic organizations that constitute de TRECC consortium (Jacobs, Bernard van Leer, and UBS Optimus Foundations), and 12 companies from the cocoa and chocolate Industry, are establishing the Early Learning and Nutrition (ELAN) Financing Facility, which will support the Ivorian Government in scaling proven-to-work behaviour-change focused Early Childhood Development (ECD) interventions in Côte d’Ivoire. ELAN aims to impact 1.3 million children aged 0 to 5 living in rural cocoa-producing communities of Côte d’Ivoire, so that the latter can achieve their optimal physical, emotional, and cognitive development. By providing caregivers access to ECD and…

Development Media International (DMI) was contracted to carry out an Early Childhood Development (ECD) mass media campaign in Côte d’Ivoire. The aim of the campaign is to improve parenting behaviors using mass media and mobile technology over a period of 18 months.

Skillful Parenting is a parenting and family support program designed together with communities across Africa to improve the well-being of children and their families. It aims to promote positive parenting practices and family relationships with the goal of preventing violence against children and child labor while promoting children’s positive development. This approach equips parents and…

Combined with the Essential Nutrition/Essential Hygiene Actions (ENA/EHA) modules, Care for Child Development (C4CD) is an innovative and integrated approach aiming to improve childhood development and nutritional outcomes during the first 1,000 days, a crucial period of life that starts at the beginning of a woman’s pregnancy and lasts until a child’s second birthday.

Introduced in Côte d’Ivoire within the context of TRECC in 2017, Families Make the Difference (FMD) is a program targeting caregivers with content that have been proven to work in other similar contexts via randomized controlled trials. FMD aims at improving parenting skills and behaviors for a positive impact on the physical, intellectual, and emotional…

The Multisectoral Nutrition and Child Development Project (PMNDPE) is a government-led program, largely financed by the World Bank, deployed in 14 administrative regions of Côte d’Ivoire aiming to increase the coverage of early childhood nutrition and development interventions in order to optimize the physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive development of young children starting in the first…