Activities
Intervention Areas
Goal #1: To strengthen the Institutional Capacity of Stay-In-School International
Overall Objective #1: To provide tools and materials necessary for the promotion of early childhood development in the Gambia and Africa.
Specific Objectives
- Provide 3-year administrative support for the running of SIS International head office
- Increase the support base of SIS International with a core group of 100 volunteers
- Strengthen local and international partnership
- Mobilize resources for core/administrative support
- Constitute a core group of local and international volunteers
- Identify and establish local and international partnership
Goal #2: To increase enrollment and bridge gaps in early childhood education.
Overall Objective #2: To increase by 70 percent the number of children attending early childhood education programs in 10 rural regions.
Specific Objectives
- To establish 10 early childhood development centres in rural communities by 2023
- Establish 10 recreational amenities in early childhood development centers to empower children through reading and writing
- To build the capacity of 50 early childhood development instructors and care givers
Strategy #2:
- Identify and establish early childhood development school and libraries in needed communities.
- Provide educational material support to children in early childhood development schools
- Identify and train early childhood development instructors and care givers.
Goal #3:To promote education of children with physical and developmental disability
Overall Objective #3:To increase by 50 percent the enrollment of children with developmental disability in early childhood educational centers.
Specific Objectives
- Increase by 50 percent children with developmental disability attending early childhood development schools in 10 rural communities
- To empower 20 special needs instructors to serve in 10 early childhood development schools
- Advocacy and sensitization on development disability education.
- Provide special needs educational materials to existing schools.
- Capacity building of instructors to provide development disability education.