Born Learning: Expanding learning opportunities for the youngest children in crisis settings

PRIORITY ACTIONS:

• Provide practical and interactive parenting education or coaching programs to build caregivers’ capacity to create stimulating environments at home and engage in responsive, playful interactions with their children.
• Engage male caregivers to share child-rearing responsibilities, support their partners as allies in parenting and get involved in their young children’s learning.
• Support adolescent caregivers in particular, including by offering early childhood services within or close to education facilities, and providing referrals for clinical treatment of maternal depression when needed.

Programme Example:  Go Baby Go