With travel and face-to-face restrictions due to COVID-19, we adapted our Reach Up training workshop to facilitate virtual delivery. This was our first virtual training workshop and we used a mix of synchronous sessions held on the Zoom platform and asynchronous sessions mounted on the Moodle Learning Management System. Seventeen participants, from 8 countries spanning Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, attended the 10 day workshop.
Anas works on the IRC’s Reach Up and Learn programme, teaching parents the importance of play-based learning in order to give their child a head start in school. The programme has had to adapt during the coronavirus pandemic but Anas continues to provide services via phone calls and WhatsApp messages, all while using the trainings and activities with his own daughters who’ve not been able to go to school due to COVID-19.
The Reach Up newsletter (i) shares information about implementation in the different countries, such as adaptations made, delivery method, etc, (ii) provides updates on workshops, meetings, upcoming training sessions, etc, (iii) provides links to reports, articles, etc. on evaluations at the country level and (iv) any other information implementation partners or funding agencies would like to share with the Reach Up community.
The Reach Up Parent Manual was created to help families to play, interact and learn more with their children. This parent manual was developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reach Up and Learn in the Syria Response: Adapting and implementing an evidence based home visiting program in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
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Reach Up and Learn in Syria Response
The Reach Up newsletter (i) shares information about implementation in the different countries, such as adaptations made, delivery method, etc, (ii) provides updates on workshops, meetings, upcoming training sessions, etc, (iii) provides links to reports, articles, etc. on evaluations at the country level and (iv) any other information implementation partners or funding agencies would like to share with the Reach Up community.
CBS 60 Minutes aired a segment highlighting the IRC and Sesame Workshop’s Ahlan Simsim project, the largest early childhood development initiative in the history of humanitarian response – using Reach Up and Learn.
This meeting bought together 31 participants from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Peru, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States and Zimbabwe, as well as representatives from the LEGO Foundation, the World Bank Group, Child Fund and Inter-American Development Bank.
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