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New evidence on positive parenting programme in South Africa
Parenting programmes have been identified as an important strategy for preventing violence against children but there is a lack of programmes developed specifically for low-resource contexts. The Parenting for Lifelong Health programme was developed to fill this gap....
Seeking service provider: Early childhood development strategic workforce planning
The National Department of Social Development, in partnership with Ilifa Labantwana, is seeking the services of a service provider who can assist in developing an Early Childhood Development Human Resource strategic workforce plan that will enable the ECD sector to...
South African Early Childhood Review 2019
The South African Early Childhood Review 2019 is an annual statistical review and analysis of the key data indicators for children under 6. Data indicators are carefully selected from across the Essential Package of ECD services: Primary level maternal and child...
Reissue and new deadline: Call for service provider to design national quality system for ECD
The Department of Social Development, supported by Ilifa Labantwana, seeks to appoint a service provider to design a quality assurance and support system for early learning programmes that gives expression to the priorities and principles of the ECD Policy, drawing...
New resource: Evidence base for early learning programmes
We have just published a new public resource: a literature review of the global evidence base for early learning programmes. This analysis is especially useful in the current South African context, where both the National Development Plan Vision 2030 and the National...
Quick access to ECD resources
As a learning organisation working in the early childhood development space, we are always looking to contribute and add value to the sector and one of the ways we do this is through our resource hub on our website. We believe that open and free access to quality...
Early Childhood Matters 2019 launched
The Early Childhood Matters 2019 launched today and showcases advances in early childhood development. This document will be useful and of interest to anyone working to improve the health and wellbeing of babies, toddlers and their caregivers. The 2019 edition...
Call for service provider to do user testing of Guide to Road to Health book for healthworkers
The National Department of Health (NDoH) and Ilifa Labantwana seek to appoint a service provider to test a newly-developed toolkit called The Healthworker’s Guide to the Road to Health book with the toolkit’s intended audience, so as to ascertain whether it is fit for...
We’re hiring: communication coordinator position available
We are looking for a communication whizz to join our Cape Town team. Our ideal candidate has at least 3 years marketing and communication experience, a tertiary qualification in media/communication/marketing, and wants to use their skills to create a positive social...
Mikhulu Child Development Trust: providing book-sharing training to organisations
The Mikhulu Child Development Trust trains organisations to implement an evidence-based early childhood development (ECD) programme called “book-sharing”. Book-sharing is an interactive exercise shared between a young child (under 6) and an adult. Unlike when reading...
Using “dialogic book-sharing” to boost child benefits from books
Research from around the world shows that a caregiver can boost the developmental benefits of books by sharing them with a child in a particular way - using dialogic book-sharing. What is dialogic book-sharing? Dialogic book-sharing is an interactive exercise...
New tool to help practitioners improve quality in ECD practice
The Bridge ECD Community of Practice has launched the ECD Practitioner Quality Reflection Tool, which assists ECD practitioners in understanding quality in ECD practice and helps them identify their strengths and weaknesses so they are able to develop and improve...
Programmes and systems
Bhalisa Inkulisa Partial Care Registration System
ECD Infrastructure Support
Early Learning Playgroups
ECD Centre Enrichment
Home Visiting Programme
Ibhayi Lengane First 1000 days relationship support tool
Inclusive ECD programme
Philani Mentor Mothers
Sinovuyo Caring Families Project
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