Udbhav
The Early Childhood Development Program
About Us
Udbhav is an early childhood development program that aims to bring access to high quality early childhood development to all children in India. We do this by working directly with the ICDS department by building capacity on ground through training, monitoring and evaluation.
Our
Vision
All the children in India will have access to high quality early childhood development program
Our
Mission
Build capacity and change mindset on ground through training, awareness creation and consistent monitoring and evaluation.
Methodology
Influencing System Leaders & Academic Processes in Public Primary School Sysyems & in ICDS Anganwadis at a block, district and State level for sustainable reform.
Strengthening role of caregivers, AWWs and School Teachers through capacity building, program design and action-research & labs – across FLN spectrum.
Providing high quality teaching – learning materials, technical & evaluative expertise for organisations, schools and individual in increasing access to learning.
Our Approch
- High-quality ECCE/ECD is crucial for the optimal development and school readiness of the children and remains the only avenue to combat the early onset of social disadvantage and exclusion in our country.
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- We provide technical support in this field of early childhood education through the capacity building of AWW’s, system leaders and classroom interventions to strengthen activity based experiential learning in AWC’s.
Parent Engagement Program
Our parent engagement program leverages the power of community mobilization to build awareness and drive change in the families of our children. We do this by employing parent representatives from the community that work closely with the program team to ensure that each family has access to learning spaces and contextualized support.
4 Steps of Change
-01-
Awareness
-02-
Creating Champions
-03-
Immersive Learning
-04-
Making Change Visible
Parent Engagement Program Timeline
Awareness
0-6 Months
Training the parent coordinator.
Parent coordinator will take sessions in Model AWCs focused on awareness (integrate them with sajak and other awareness programs of CLR).
The focus at this time is on large group awareness building through workshops, whatsapp messages, print materials
Creating Champions
6-12 months
Selecting parent representatives from the communities, these will be the parents that were consistent in the first 6 months and showed maximum potential to change.
Training parent representatives and assigning them their support cluster.
During this time the parent representatives work closely with the parent coordinator to facilitate spaces across model AWCs.
Immersion
Year 2
Parent representatives work in small groups to facilitate spaces.
Parent coordinator supports the program team to create immersive experiences for parents in small groups.
More focused and contextualized support for the families.
Making Change Visible
End of Program
End of program celebration showcasing the various quantitative and qualitative change that have happened through a day-long event.