About the ECCD Toolkit...

World Vision has been working intensively with Representatives from the Education, Global Health and HOPE teams, three national offices (Honduras, Mexico, and Laos), two ADPs (Yamaranguila, Honduras and Vicente Camalote, Mexico), and Arca Associates, an education consultancy, to develop this prototype integrated curriculum model to support the training of parents and community members on how to care for pregnant women and children 0 to 5 years of age.

This Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) toolkit is intended for use primarily by field-level volunteers and community workers (whether community volunteers or World Vision field staff) who have extensive direct field interaction with adults of childbearing age and/or with parents of children ages five and under. The toolkit consists of very simple materials that introduce a wide range of parenting topics (stimulation and play, discipline, affection, health, nutrition, child protection, etc.) for discussion into a community setting.

Good, participatory facilitation will be critical to successful use of the materials, as they are intended to induce community discussion in ways that result in attitude and behavior change. ECCD materials try to address initial core attitudes, culture, prejudices, and misconceptions, by building on local knowledge and practices that might already exist in communities, so that the door is opened for further in-depth engagement at either community or individual household level by other initiatives like time and targeted health messaging, nutrition initiatives, community development projects, etc.

Browse through the tools to the left, view, download, and try them! They've been designed for flexible implementation, adaptation, and full community participation. You can be easily expand and adapt them for local use depending on your context.