Civil Societies’ Services and Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Ethiopia: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons from Pilot Programs by Belay Tefera and Teka Zewdie

Belay Tefera, Teka Zewdie

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Belay Tefera, Teka Zewdie	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-01T12:36:17Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-03-01T12:36:17Z	-
dc.date.issued	2018	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://ecde.aau.edu.et/jspui/handle/123456789/223	-
dc.description	In their pursuit to contribute to ECCE issues of access, quality and equity, some civil societies have embarked on community- based ECCE pilot programs in different regions of the country. Consequently, this research attempted to examine their contributions in view of the mediated community values and practices, the challenges, and opportunities in the process of implementing ECCE, by specifically focusing on the activities of three rural pilot ECCE centres in Ethiopia that are supported and directed by two NGOs. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with children, guardians, facilitators, and ECCE personnel. Findings indicated that the ECCE centers were serving two major functions: Availing learning resources and opportunities for children and serving as entry points to conducting community and parent education programs. It was observed that such centers would make important impacts on and contributions for communities, parents, and, of course, the children. However, some concerns were noted challenging the communities’ values, practices and resources; tendency to devalue some useful community values and practices, and, more fundamentally, scalability and sustainability concerns. The opportunities identified to enable implementing such programs were existence of civil societies with long years of ECCE experience, ECCE guiding frameworks (legal, administrative, and academic), ECCE administrative structure, and the untapped social and cultural resources and partnerships in the communities. It was generally noted that the way these pilot ECCEs were designed, established, and implemented seemed to suggest lesser possibilities of scalability for low income and rural Ethiopia despite the civil societies’ reported efforts. The study charted out a road map to clear out the way forward.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this research attempted to examine their contributions in view of the mediated community values and practices, the challenges, and opportunities in the process of implementing ECCE	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Ethiopian Journal of Behavioral Studies, AAU	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Ethiopian Journal of Behavioral Studies, AAU	en_US
dc.subject	Research Report	en_US
dc.subject	challenges, and opportunities in the process of implementing ECCE	en_US
dc.title	Civil Societies’ Services and Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Ethiopia: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons from Pilot Programs by Belay Tefera and Teka Zewdie	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US
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