by Laura Brooks | Feb 19, 2021 | Blog
As schools get back to work in 2021, most ECD programmes across the country will also be looking to reopen as well. This is crucial, not only to allow young children to receive the early learning input that they need, but also to allow their parents to go back to or...
by Laura Brooks | Feb 12, 2021 | Blog
by Laura Brooks | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Ilifa Insights, News, Projects
Ilifa Labantwana is a founding member of the Real Reform for ECD Campaign. We are backing and supporting this Campaign because we need an enabling legal and regulatory framework to achieve universal access to comprehensive equitable Early Childhood Development (ECD)...
by Laura Brooks | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog, ECD News, Ilifa Insights, Lessons from the Field, Projects
The ECD COVID Response Project has always been as much about gathering lessons to feed into long-term systemic change in the ECD sector, as it is about shorter-term relief and support to individual ECD sites and the children they serve during the COVID-19 crisis....
by Laura Brooks | Nov 24, 2020 | Blog, Lessons from the Field, News, Projects
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. This old saying seems apt in 2020, a year which many people are lamenting as one of the worst in living memory. Certainly is has been a tough year for all of us, not just in South Africa, but around the world. And the...
by Svetlana | Apr 30, 2020 | Blog
THE ECD SECTOR MUST BENEFIT FROM STATE SUPPORT By Laura Brooks (Financing and Systems Manager at Ilifa Labantwana) and Sumaya Hendricks (Dialogue Analyst at the Nelson Mandela Foundation) The President’s bold commitment on the 21st of April of R500 billion to support...
