This blog features Noella Kabarungi, Senior Education Technical Specialist at Save the Children International Rwanda, and a member of the CATALYZE T4ECE Rwanda Task Force. Over the next year, Save the Children Rwanda will be leading the T4ECE Rwanda Task Force as they work towards defining and piloting country-level benchmarks for IDELA scores based on national early childhood development standards. Learn more from Noella, as she reflects on progress made and upcoming priorities through T4ECE in Rwanda.

This blog features Loveness Muluta-Musiyapo, Early Childhood Development Specialist and lecturer from the University of Malawi, and a member of the CATALYZE T4ECE Malawi Task Force. Over the next year, the University of Malawi will be leading the T4ECE Malawi Task Force as they work towards developing a functional national ECD Management Information System for Malawi. . Learn more from Loveness, as she reflects on progress made and upcoming priorities through T4ECE in Malawi.

This blog features Dr. Menelik Desta, Executive Director of Ethiopia School Readiness Initiative and a representative on the CATALYE T4ECE Ethiopia Task Force. Over the next year, the T4ECE Ethiopia Task Force will work to expand the existing Knowledge Hub, an online repository to collect and share ECDE resources across Ethiopia, and engage in capacity building exercises to strengthen knowledge around early childhood data and measurement. Read more as Dr. Menelik reflects on what is to come as the T4ECE teams works towards building the collective knowledge base of ECE throughout Ethiopia.

This blog features Dr. Cecelia Cassell, Dean of the William V.S. Tubman Teachers College at the University of Liberia, and chair of the CATALYZE T4ECE Liberia Task Force. Over the next year, the University of Liberia will be leading the T4ECE Liberia Task Force as they work towards developing a standardized and national tool for assessment early learning outcomes and school readiness. Read more as Dr. Cassell reflects on the progresses made and what is to come as Liberia moves forward with its vision to create a national integrated ECD data collection and management system.

This blog features Colin Almeleh, the Director of Knowledge, Information and Data Solutions at Ilifa Labantwana.  Over the next year, Ilifa Labantwana will be leading the T4ECE South Africa Task Force as they build consensus around a set of key indicators to be included in a new ECD M&E Framework for the National ECD Policy. Read more as Colin reflects on the progresses made in South Africa and his hopes and vision for what is to come.

In this blog, we hear from colleagues in Guinea Bissau about how using the BEQI has created a ripple effect throughout the entire education system, helping to legitimize ECE within the broader system, and becoming the impetus for creating a data-driven quality ECE system.

Dr. Joan Lombardi, a guest author for ECD Measure, reflects on issues in the early childhood measurement and evidence field.

This blog provides an overall summary to the Together for Early Childhood Evidence 2-day workshop in Mauritius in October 2022.

In this blog, we hear from the Liberia T4ECE country task force team about their experience in developing a catalogue of ECE programs and quality indicators and how the data collected will be used to help focus and manage resources to improve the quality of ECE in Liberia.

This blog explores how nationally representative classroom observational data collected in Rwanda by government officials will be used to make positive impacts on the quality of early learning and how the T4ECE team hopes this will create a shift in the culture of data communication and data use.

In this blog, we feature the Thrive by Five Index, South Africa’s first nationally representative survey of preschool children. It provides data on 4-5-year-old children’s developmental outcomes that will inspire action and change so that all children have the chance to flourish by the age of five.

In this blog, we hear from Dr. Menelik Desta, Executive Director of ESRI, and Professor Belay Kibret of Addis Ababa University as they discuss the T4ECE task force team's experience in synthesizing and compiling ECDE evidence and resources in Ethiopia.

As part of the 2022 CIES conference, Together for Early Childhood Evidence led a panel focused on country-led research activities in Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda and South Africa that support strengthening and developing effective early childhood monitoring and measurement systems.

This blog focuses on our team's work using human-centered design to think about how measurement tools and systems can respond to the needs of early childhood teachers and providers. 

In this blog we hear from Save the Children Rwanda as they, with the support of T4ECE, collect for the first time ever nationally representative data on the quality of pre-primary and primary classroom and children's learning outcomes.

This blog features work in Liberia to adapt and use ECD Measure's Brief Early Childhood Quality Inventory (BEQI) to help Liberian researchers and policymakers understand the current state of preschool quality and make choices about how to improve.

This blog highlights the process and experience of building Ethiopia’s first national study of early childhood quality and outcomes using the MELQO.

We now know that quality early childhood programs can have a lasting positive impact. But we know less about how to translate that science into workable solutions for programs around the world. While there is increasing interest in measuring the quality of preschool environments, a challenge comes in creating feedback loops where quality data lead to improved teaching and learning processes.

We’re increasingly recognizing the power of play for children. Children learn best when they are supported to deeply engage with their surroundings and other people, when they are given the opportunity to explore and try things out, and when they can internalize and make meaning of what they are learning.

Family child care is extremely important to many families with young children. Often run by independent small business owners, family child care providers balance caring for children with all of the functions of running a small business. To help support these critical early childhood professionals, ECD Measure has partnered with the Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative (NECC) to use the Brief Early Quality Inventory (BEQI) observation tool and BEQI self-assessment as part of NECC’s new Family Child Care Network initiative to providers in Nebraska.