CDP Info
Child Development Program (CDP) objective is to enhance the well-being of targeted children through holistic childhood care and development support and educational support.
POTENTIAL RESOURCES
- DEC has Early Learning Material production center at Bahir Dar and
- DEC has deployed high level professional and trained Educational expertise
- DEC has accumulated social capital / partnership among the community and with different level of stakeholders and partners
- DEC has its own offices in Afar( Ayasita ) , Oromia ( Bacho- Tulu Bollo , Liben Bedelle ) , Amhara ( Bahir Dar ), Addis Ababa
TRACK RECORD
Thematic Areas
- Early childhood care and Development /Education (ECCD/ECCE) Accelerated school readiness, Pastoral Mobile schools
- Primary Education
- Secondary Education ( with special focus on Girls )
- School WASH
- Self-help Group (SHG ) and cluster level Association (CLA)
- Emergency in Education ( including refugee setting)
- Child Protection and child save guarding
- Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Addressing the problems of children with disabilities
- Lobby and advocacy on child rights and services
Lesson Learnt
- Capacitating school teachers have a significant contribution to improve students achievement and increases enrolment
- Supporting children families and capacitating children family helped to sustain children education
- Comprehensive intervention mechanism like Star School model really contribute to school improvement and promote save learning environment
- Focusing on capacity development of regional and district level expertise ,and school principals enhance the implementation and effectiveness of programs in schools
- Technology-based school level assessment provide participatory and reliable data for intervention
- Creating a strong partnership with different agencies and stakeholders make the service more effective and sustainable
- Strong community mobilization, effective participation enhance a sense of ownership during project implementations
Challenges And Successes
Success General
Key Achievements
Challenges
- Addressing complex, broad needs and long-serving problems of society /community needs critical prioritization and selection and possibly rise conflicts of interest; therefore it needs to empower the community as they find solutions of their own.
- A limited resource to uniformly serve and provide targets groups; for example, it is too challenging to capacitate each and every teacher in school; rather tries to scale up through other means; that may cause quality issues.
MAJOR ACTIVITIES
- Provision of Capacity building trainings for facilitators, teachers ,students , School Management , Education Expertise and Parent Teacher Association
- Construct, rehabilitate and renovate school buildings , Water ,Sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and sport fields
- Provision of scholastic materials , reference books , school kits and pedagogical tools
- Establish and strengthen Self Help Groups (SHG)Â and Cluster level Association (CLA)
- Support Education in Emergency responses ( including refugee schools )
- Mobile school and Accelerated School Readiness program facilitation in pastoralist society and host community
- Periodical monitoring and supportive supervision of projects and programs involving concerned partners and stakeholders
- Monitoring , Evaluation and Learning processes are drawn and compiled as a major lessons out of the implementation of the strategic plan
EXPECTED RESULT
- Develop strong partnership and networking with stakeholders in the sector and promote integrated services
- Teachers , facilitators and expertise in the education system develop better facilitation , teaching and managerial knowledge and skills
- School Children learning environment and academic achievement improves
- Children of disadvantages ,children with disabilities , vulnerable children addressed with basic needs and improves their wellbeing
- Children quality life, socialization and self-esteem enhanced
- Parents and communities engagement and contribution for school development improved
TARGET BENEFICIARIES
- Children in preprimary school (4-6) and primary school age( 7- 15 ) are the main targets of the project
- Youths in school , disadvantage and vulnerable girls
- Facilitators , teachers, principals , School Management Committee, education expertise and school communities in Preprimary and Primary education are key targets in the projects
- Parents, care takers, guardians of children are also targeted in the process of addressing the need of a child.
Program Objectives
- Enhance the well-being of targeted children through holistic childhood care and development support and educational support.
Sub Program Components
Strategies of the program
- Establish and strengthen partnership and networking with multiple stakeholders
- Train and capacitate partners, parents, and community members
- Promote inclusions of disadvantageous groups: people with disability and refugee children
- Create a child-friendly conducive school environment.
- Promote life skills of children particularly for school girls
- Addressing target through satellite services via clustered schools
Key tools & approaches
- Star School Model – is a comprehensive model to improve school learning, teaching, management, school environment, and community participation. This approach has about ten modules provided by high-level expertise in two years a long time. It has five pillars.
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- Safe learning environment
- Learners
- Teachers
- School management
- community
- Classroom Filming– it is a practical assessment of teachers capability in the provision of learning; and analysis of the practice indicates problems and the intervention direction
- AKVo flow /Edu.Q card/is an innovative technology that uses an app to assess the level of school in various components with the involvement of the school community, parents, education expertise, and program person.
- SLSSH (Student Lead School Sanitation and Hygiene) – it is an approach in which students in school establish clubs and lead their school sanitation and hygiene activities
- Aflatoun – Social and Financial Education of children training Modules.
- EDU-Q Card is a newly developed school-based instrument ( app) built upon the main principles of the Star school model.
- AFL – Assessment for Learning(AFL) practical  training manual
- SMT- School Management Training manual
- ATL – Active Teaching and learning
CDP OPERATIONAL AREA
- Afar Region – Aysaita, Berahalle districts
- Amhara Region – Bahir Dar Zuria, South Achefer, Mecha and Debre Tabor
- Addis Ababa city Administration
- Oromia – Jimma, Bedele, Bacho, Liban Chukala, Guto Gidda (Nekemte area)
- Other parts of the country, depending on funding opportunities
DEC Area offices and CDP Coordinating Offices
- Bahir Dar Program Area office
- Aysaita Program Area office
- Bacho Program Area Office
- Liben Program Area Office
- Bedelle Program Area Office
- Dessie Program Area Office
- Berhalle Coordination office