Major Activities

NCLR's activities include training, research, materials development, advocacy and consultancy services for educational programs.

• It organizes Trainers' Training Programs, on-the-job training for pre-primary and primary school teachers, pre-service and in-service training for Early Childhood Development (ECD) program facilitators, and in-service training for supervisory personnel.
• It develops innovative teaching and learning materials and makes them available to interested trainers, teachers, parents and children..
• It organizes seminars, dialogue sessions and exhibitions on pertinent topics and issues for raising awareness about ECD and joyful learning for young children.
• It provides technical assistance in restructuring/re-organizing the pre-school classroom set-up in order to have the real transformation of trained teachers’ knowledge and skills into class room situation.
• It conducts community-teaching methods to empower the parents/guardian of young children.
• It provides consultancy services for ECD project design on upgrading pre-primary and primary schools.
• It develops IEC (Information, Education and Communication) materials that are friendly for the teachers, parents/guardian, and community people to raise awareness on ECD
• It conducts research and advocacy on pressing early childhood issues in the Nepali context.