What is the Competency Framework for Health Workers and Trainers? The Competency Framework for Health Workers and Trainers is a tool designed to enhance the capacities of health workers in supporting caregivers with children aged 0 to 3 years in…
The Madrasa Early Childhood Programme (MECP) in East Africa is celebrating a long and proud history of creating impact and partnerships with communities and allies in Early Childhood Development. As MECP celebrates 40 years since it was established by local…
After school ends at 3pm in Baniyani village, Uttar Pradesh, children eagerly rush to their favourite place: ‘Child Junction’. Here, they spend their evenings playing, exploring, and sharing with each other. Child Junction offers a sensory-rich environment, supporting the cognitive,…
In the Kyrgyz Republic’s urban areas, only 34% of children attend kindergarten, whilst in rural areas the number is even lower at 20%. Despite proactive measures by the government, such as reinstating state-owned kindergarten buildings into functional kindergartens, offering tax…
In August 2020, Kiswa Primary School – one of the largest government-aided schools in Uganda’s capital – joined the Schools2030 programme to begin their Human-Centred Design (HCD) journey, led by a team of six teachers. They wanted to identify some…
When the Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development (ECD) was launched in 2018, one major focus was on supporting and influencing government policymakers, in order that holistic child development was included in policies, and then funded and implemented in…
Abdallah Salim lives with his wife Mariam, and 4-year-old son, Salim, in the remote village of Mbuta, which is near Mombasa on the coast of Kenya. Salim goes to Kadiria community pre-school, which has been supported by the Aga Khan…
When staff at Arua Islamic Nursery School in Uganda first embarked on their Human-Centred Design (HCD) journey with Schools2030, they were unsure where to concentrate their initial efforts. As a design process that puts users first, HCD’s guiding principles required…
Women around the world are struggling with the additional pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic – from the demands of home-schooling, to feeding families on reduced incomes, or even an increase in gender-based violence in some of the worst cases. Many…
AKF General Manager Michael Kocher and Early Childhood Development Specialist Sheila Manji speak about the Foundation’s work in “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty” on 27 November 2015 at the Ismaili Centre, London. In the first of a series of Aga…