Indonesia : Can Community Preschools Improve Poor Children’s Development?
In Indonesia, researchers evaluated a project to expand access to early childhood services in the country’s poorest areas by giving communities grants for preschools and providing teacher training and facilitators to encourage use of services. The...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/956991468193770012/Indonesia-Can-community-preschools-improve-poor-children-s-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28227 |
| Summary: | In Indonesia, researchers evaluated a
project to expand access to early childhood services in the
country’s poorest areas by giving communities grants for
preschools and providing teacher training and facilitators
to encourage use of services. The evaluation found that this
project boosted enrollment and children’s development,
especially for those from the most disadvantaged
backgrounds. Now, with support from the strategic impact
evaluation fund, the research team is going back to see
whether the early childhood services created with the
project’s support are still functioning and how they are
sustaining themselves given that project support has ended.
As the Government of Indonesia considers expanding
compulsory education to include pre-primary school, the
results can provide important evidence for how to do this. |
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