Growing Up and Learning Together: Comprehensive Early Childhood Development in El Salvador

The objectives of the Growing Up and Learning Together: Comprehensive Early Childhood Development in El Salvador Project for El Salvador are to: (i) improve Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) teaching practices nationwide; (ii) upgrade physical learning environments of selected ECCE centers; and (iii) strengthen institutional capacity for education sector management. The Project has five components. 1. Ensuring ECCE Structural Quality Standards and Curriculum Nationwide component will support the Government of El Salvador (GoES) in developing and implementing structural quality standards (SQS) for all ECCE services (children 0 to 7 years old) offered in centers and in updating the current curriculum in concurrence with the proposed SQS and the country’s Early Childhood Development and Learning Standards (ECDLS). Component 1 has two subcomponents: (1.1) Accreditation of ECCE structural quality standards; and (1.2.) Review, alignment and implementation of the ECCE curriculum nationwide. 2. Strengthening Professional Development of Teachers and Principals at ECCE Official Centers component will focus on strengthening cognitive and socioemotional skills, and the pedagogical practices of teachers and principals working in ECCE official centers. Component 2 has three subcomponents: (2.1) In‐service training for teachers in ECCE official centers; (2.2) In‐service training for principals in ECCE official centers; and (2.3) Support to pre‐service training for teachers at ECCE centers. 3. Upgrading ECCE Physical Learning Environments component will support the GoES in improving public ECCE physical learning environments to ensure that they are child‐centered, learning‐oriented, gender‐inclusive, safe, sustainable, resilient to natural hazards and using low‐carbon technologies. Component 3 has three subcomponents: (3.1) Pre‐investment activities for the improvement of ECCE public infrastructure; (3.2) Improving physical environments in selected ECCE official centers;...