EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING FOR CHILDREN AGES 0-3: SUCCESSES & CHALLENGES

Children acquire foundational skills in all developmental domains from the earliest ages; however, most programming for children ages 0-3 in Rwanda has focused on the health and nutrition needs for securing children’s physical development. In response, Save the Children and its partner,
Umuhuza, initiated its 0-3 Early Childhood Development (ECD) programming to particularly address language, communication and wider cognitive development deficits, while simultaneously highlighting holistic child development in all domains.