Key Objectives

Under NCLR, a seven member Advisory Board Council (ABC) has been formed to guide overall project activities, formulate strategies, drive, expedite and monitor the project progress. The specific objectives of NCLR are to:

• Support young children in making their learning meaningful, joyful and creative through developing a home-school support system;
• Provide an opportunity for teachers to develop their professional capabilities by organizing short-term and long-term teachers’ training programs, conferences, workshops and seminars;
• Develop replicable model and disseminate innovative approaches and materials that help young children to learn in meaningful, joyful and creative ways.

In meeting the above objectives, the project has adopted the following strategies in planning, implementation and evaluation levels and process:

• Development and enhancement of partnerships, collaborations and coordination with government agencies (Districct Education Office), local NGOs, CBOs, corporate houses, and local community groups;
• Community participation and mobilization;
• Stakeholder empowerment such as School Management Committee-members, teachers, parents, guardians, PTA, community people, community trustees, social leaders, social entrepreneurs etc;
• Local and non-local volunteer recruitment and mobilization;
• Mobilization of older children in helping young children learn in the school environment;
• Intensification of local, regional and international networks of people, friends and experts to create a solid base for ECD concept implementation and modifications;
• Integration of other on-going programs of local community into ECD program.