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children given the power to succeed through SmartStart!
SmartStart is taking quality early learning opportunities to children across South Africa. By activating a new generation of early learning practitioners known as SmartStarters, we are helping to ensure that all children have the right foundations in place to succeed at school and beyond. And by using a social franchise model, we can harness the experience and expertise of implementing partners to reach more children, much faster.
ECD Employment Stimulus Relief Fund
Last year, the government announced emergency funding to help to protect jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of this funding is for workers at ECD programmes. It is called the ECD Employment Stimulus Relief Fund.
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Join us in the campaign to change the Children’s Amendment Bill, and to create a fair and inclusive regulatory system for ECD
New Report: Closing the gap in South Africa’s early learning provision
Our new report makes the case for a national early learning delivery platform. The report provides an overview of access to early learning in South Africa, and explains why a systems intervention like SmartStart is needed to close the provisioning gap and to enable population-level change in child outcomes.
Vho Issue 12
WE ARE BACK
2021 is upon us and let us all hope and plan for a much better year than we had in 2020. To help you on the path of planning for it our latest issue of Vho! includes a lot more from SmartStarters.
News and Events
LGT Ventures & SmartStart
LGT Venture Philanthropy Foundation (LGT VP), today announced a new engagement to support SmartStart. With LGT VP’s flexible, non-programmatic funding and operational support, SmartStart will build additional capacity in leadership, data analytics and monitoring & evaluation.
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Outcome Evaluation Report
SMARTSTART OUTCOME EVALUATION REPORT
Five years ago, SmartStart was established with the vision of ensuring that every child has the foundations in place to succeed at school and beyond. We have sought to implement a systems solution to the challenge of delivering quality and affordable early learning opportunities at scale.
Throughout this period, our burning question has been - can...
Call to zero-rate mobile data to allow early learning and education to continue
Call to zero-rate mobile data to allow early learning and education to continue
The DG Murray Trust calls on mobile network operators to urgently zero-rate the services of all public benefit organisations (PBOs) that provide digital content for early learning and education. In this way, preschool and schooling will be able to continue to some extent, reaching children on cellphones...
