Operations in Africa

The World Bank supports a series of ECD projects (lending) and related activities (non-lending work) in the Africa region:

Lending:

• ECD Freestanding projects
• ECD Project components

Non-lending work:

• Capacity Building
• Sector and Strategy work

ECD Freestanding projects:

• Eritrea: Integrated Early Childhood Development Project
• Kenya: Early Childhood Development Project
• Nigeria: Development Communication Pilot Project
• Uganda: Nutrition and Early Child Development Project

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ECD project components:

• Burundi: ECD in the Social Action Project II
• Chad: ECD in the Quality Education Sector Project
• Guinea: ECD in the Basic Education for All Project
• Lesotho: ECD in the Second Education Development Project
• Madagascar: ECD in Second Community Nutrition Project
• Mali: ECD in the Quality Basic Education Project
• Mauritania: ECD in the 10-Year Education Sector Reform Program
• Rwanda: ECD in the Human Resource Development Project
• Senegal: ECD in the Quality Education for All Project 

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• ECD and HIV/AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa - Dar Workshop april 2004; Institutional Development Facility Fund 2004-2006
• Strategic Choices for Early Child Development in Sub Saharan Africa 2004
• Study Tour for African Policy Makers 2000 [pdf]
• International ECD Institutes and Conferences [pdf]
• Leadership Development: ECD Virtual University[pdf]
• Information Technology
  • Information Management Project for Africa (IMPACT) [pdf] and IMPACT Project summary [pdf]
  • Information Systems Strategy Plan (ISSP)                                           

• Increasing investments in ECD in Africa Summary paper [pdf]
• Country-Level Sector Work
  • Cape Verde and Guinea [pdf] May 2001
  • Ethiopia [pdf] April 2001
  • Kenya [pdf]
  • Mauritius ([pdf] pril 200
• The Africa Regional ECD Initiative 1996-1998 [pdf]