rencp eccd working group update january-august 2012 rencp general assembly 14 th august
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RENCP ECCD Working Group Update
January-August 2012
RENCP General Assembly 14th August
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RENCP ECCD working group led the organization of the ECD Action Week from 22 to 28April 2012 in partnership with the Government of Rwanda
Main objectives of the Action Week:
-To raise Early Childhood Development awareness;
-To support government of Rwanda in the dissemination and mobilization around the ECD policy and its strategic plan;
-To engage high level stakeholders around ECD budgeting;
-To seek public commitment to include ECD in Sector and District level performance plan.
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Activities:
1.Media mobilization – through an orientation with journalists conducted on 18th April – TV coverage, Radio coverage and written media coverage of activities conducted during the Action Week
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2. ECD National Stakeholders meeting launched by Her Excellency the First Lady of Rwanda on 19th April
For more information, please visit the MINEDUC website:http://mineduc.gov.rw/ECDRwanda/
3. Development and Distribution of ECD communication materials (10,000 Posters, 20,000 booklets and 1000 brochures)
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4. Community mobilization through public discussions, scale-up of projects, sms messages and radio spots which resulted in the inclusion of ECCD in District/Sector performance plans (approx. 12,000 people reached in around 18 Districts).
5. Partnership with Mobile Company TIGO - setd out 250,000 free sms messages on ECD at a frequency of 50,000 messages each day for 5 days.
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What did we learn as a working group through this process?
- How to work together;
- What doing Advocacy means in practice;
- How to organize a campaign;
- How to develop communication materials;
- How to get Government and other stakeholder’s buy-in;
- How to interact with the private sector;
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Current national-level engagement of the RENCP ECD working group
- ECD is gaining momentum in Rwanda;
- Involvement in the Education Sector Strategy Review to ensure ECD is included;
- Involvement and leadership of working groups set-up as a result of the ECD national stakeholders meeting: a) communication WG; b) modeling WG; c) M&E WG
Plans for August-December:
3 learning labs and study-visits to the following programmes:
August – CHF - PlaygroupsSeptember – PLAN – ECCD centre based provisionNovember – Umuhuza – 0-3 Family literacy
1 Study-visit to SC ECD programme took place in June
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Murakoze Cyane!