RENCP ECCD Working Group Update

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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
• 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 stakeholders
  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) ME WG
• Plans for August-December
• 3 learning labs and study-visits to the following
  programmes
• August CHF - Playgroups
• September PLAN ECCD centre based provision
• November Umuhuza 0-3 Family literacy
• 1 Study-visit to SC ECD programme took place in
  June

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Murakoze Cyane!