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Announcing Phase 3: Together for Early Childhood Evidence 

Author: Dr. Abbie Raikes, Director, Center for Global Health and Development & Associate Professor, Founder of ECD Measure and T4ECE Team Leader I am happy to announce Phase 3 of USAID CATALYZE Together for Early Childhood Evidence (T4ECE): Consortium on Pre-primary Data and Measurement in Africa, implemented by Palladium through the University of Nebraska Medical […]

Sep 8, 2023

Together for Early Childhood Evidence Continues to Next Phase

We are pleased to announce that Together for Early Childhood Evidence (T4ECE) will be continuing into a third phase through 2025. Originally convened in 2018, T4ECE has been promoting early childhood data and measurement in low- and middle-income countries. Since 2020, the ECD Measure Group at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has hosted T4ECE […]

Jul 12, 2023

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Sorting through the Measurement Issues in Early Childhood: Opportunities, Cautions and New Directions

By: Dr. Joan Lombardi ECD Measure and USAID recently brought together nearly 50 early childhood stakeholders in Washington, DC at the 2023 Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Conference for a Together for Early Childhood Evidence (T4ECE) meeting to discuss how countries, USAID, and T4ECE partners are making progress in building data informed early childhood systems. Dr. Joan […]

Apr 4, 2023

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Together for Early Childhood Evidence Teams convene in Mauritius

ECD Measure was pleased to partner with USAID and the Association for Development of Education in Africa Inter-Country Quality Node-Early Child Development (ADEA ICQN) to convene Together for Early Childhood Evidence (T4ECE) task force teams in October 2022 as a side event to the ADEA 2022 Triennale in Mauritius. This meeting convened forty T4ECE Task Force members […]

Dec 8, 2022

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Assessing the ECD needs of six USAID Missions in Africa

To better understand and take stock of the opportunities and challenges at the country-level in early childhood development (ECD), particularly in light of the unique COVID-19 context, ECD Measure conducted a needs assessment with the six participating countries (Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia). The needs assessment was designed to gather inputs from […]

Nov 19, 2020

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Announcing Phase 2: Working Together for Early Childhood Evidence

Author: Abbie Raikes, PhD, associate professor at the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center On behalf of ECD Measure, a research group hosted at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and in partnership with USAID and the Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC), I am happy to announce Phase 2 of the Consortium […]

Oct 17, 2020

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CPDMA Convenes Consortium-wide Conference in Kigali, Rwanda

Cross-posted on ecdmeasure.org Earlier this month, the Consortium on Pre-Primary Data and Measurement in Africa (CPDMA) convened the CPDMA Taskforce Conference: ECE Data Utilization to Impact Change in Kigali, Rwanda, co-hosted by the Rwanda Ministry of Education, National Early Childhood Development Program (Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion), and USAID. Nearly fifty participants from ten countries joined the meeting. The […]

Nov 21, 2019

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ECD Measure and CPDMA Taskforce teams meet in Mauritius for ECD Leadership Capacity Building Workshop

Cross-posted on ecdmeasure.org We all need feedback to know how we’re doing.  As more and more countries recognize the importance of early childhood education, data are essential for charting an effective path forward.  On behalf of the Consortium for Preprimary Data and Measurement in Africa, we recently joined the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), […]

Jul 11, 2019

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Consortium on Pre-Primary Data and Measurement in Africa Kicks Off at CIES in San Francisco

Cross-posted on ecdmeasure.org On April 15, 2019, the Consortium for Pre-Primary Data and Measurement in Africa (CPDMA) held a kick-off breakfast at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual conference in San Francisco, USA. CPDMA, funded by USAID and convened by ECD Measure Group, is building a global consortium on data and measurement in early childhood, […]

Apr 26, 2019

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