ECD Enterprise and Skills Development Program
ECD and Skills development are both areas of increasing priority for South Africa seeking to boost economic growth and stability. There is considerable demand for technical and financial support to expand and improve the quality of ECD programs in these two areas. Both are central in achieving National Development Plans (NDP 2030) goals of boosting shared prosperity and ending poverty.
The option of integrating ECD training into existing skills training and employment programs is an outstanding opportunity to maximize returns and address multiple critical country needs with one investment
Skills Development programs can be used to promote child development in at least three ways, including:
1. Offering ECD practitioner qualifications as a training track within a skills program (e.g., to qualify ECD caregivers for daycare centers or to train preschool teachers).
2. Establishing a program to support ECD Managers to run ECD centers as a Professional Business.
3. Establishing on-site quality childcare provision for trainees attending skills programs.
Youth Economic Empowerment
Youth Economic Empowerment In South Africa today, approximately half our young people are unemployed. At the same time, there is a serious skills shortage of technically trained professionals within the ECD space. MM Foundation have formed Graduate Empowerment Partnership (GEP) with local TVET College and North West University, to promote increased investment in children’s early years, through research and put necessary implementation measures in place.
Our ambitious work program addresses pressing issues in early learning, including investing in early learning to build future skills; measuring learning quality and outcomes (MELQO); and supporting operations research and process and impact evaluations to help ECD in MKLM get to scale. We will work with other stakeholders within Education space to build capacity to scale up access to early learning and to ensure quality as programs scale. Partnership is core to our approach.
Through the GEP, there will be opportunities to contribute to the global evidence base of successful approaches for scaling access to quality early learning.
MM Foundation Value Proposition
