EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT 

ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN 

National Minimum Standards for ECD center was developed by the GoN of Nepal in 2010 to ensure uniformity in the management and operation of the different types of ECED centers operating in the country. Shanti Foundation supports the ECD center to meet the minimum standards of physical infrastructure; human resource quality; and drinking water and sanitation.

TRAINING TO TEACHER 

As per the new requirement introduced under the School Sector Development Program (SSDP) (2016–2021), new ECED facilitators must have a minimum grade 10 qualification. According to the 2017-2018 Flash Report, 38.6 percent of facilitators have beyond minimum qualification, 54.9 percent have the minimum qualification and only 6.4 percent are under minimum qualification.

Shanti Foundation has been providing one-month intensive training and refresher training to ECED/PPE facilitators according to one of the key quality interventions to ensure teaching quality introduced under the SSDP to provide.