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    Yizani Sifunde: Impact beyond the classroom: shifts in homes and communities
    (Liberty Community Trust, Wordworks, Book Dash and Nal'ibali, 2024) von Blottnitz, Magali
    This is the fifth in a series of learning briefs that explore the design, implementation and impact of Yizani Sifunde, a collaborative multi-pronged intervention designed to boost early literacy outcomes in 4- and 5-year-olds. This brief focuses on: • the elements of the project that targeted the homes of the children, as well as some community stakeholders, namely distribution of abundant children's books for the children to own at home; caregiver workshops; reading clubs and community activations. • the shifts that resulted for these groups, using the Home Learning Environment (HLE) tool from the DataDrive2030 suite; and • how these legs of the intervention consolidated or extended the project’s impact on young children. The HLE data reveals that the project resulted not only in a considerable increase in the number of books available in the homes, but also in increased caregiver reading behaviour. At endline, almost all caregivers claimed to read to their children at least once weekly. Qualitative data revealed that three effects ("nudge effect", "joy and pride effect" and "skill and confidence effect") enabled the shift of the caregivers' reading behaviour. Caregivers also became more involved in the life of the ECDs. In addition, caregivers who attended parent workshops became more involved in a number of other activities with their children, such as storytelling or drawing. These experiences at home helped the children strengthen and consolidate the benefits from improved classroom practices. The brief also reviews and discusses the project's experience with running reading clubs, and find that reading clubs led by the project's staff or by partner institutions were more successful and operated in a more consistent manner than reading clubs run by community volunteers. These additional project activities helped to extend the project's reach to a wider number of children, in particular children in primary schools or young children who were not attending ECD centres.
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    Yizani Sifunde: Lessons from a successful multi-NGO collaboration
    (Liberty Community Trust, Wordworks, Book Dash and Nal'ibali, 2024) von Blottnitz, Magali
    This is the second in a series of learning briefs that explore the design, implementation and impact of Yizani Sifunde, a collaborative multi-pronged intervention designed to boost early literacy outcomes in 4- and 5-year-olds. The intervention was co-delivered by three leading South African NGOs, with two regional NGOs implementing part of the project locally. This brief focuses on: • the experience of the collaboration; and • the factors and practices that made it successful. In particular, it highlights the role played by the funder, Liberty Community Trust, the importance of clearly defined roles and collaboration modalities between project partners, and the learning mindset that helped improve the project design and adjust to unforeseen realities especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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    Yizani Sifunde: The design of a multi-pronged intervention for early literacy
    (Liberty Community Trust, Wordworks, Book Dash and Nal'ibali, 2024-11) von Blottnitz, Magali
    This is the first in a series of learning briefs that explore the design, implementation and impact of Yizani Sifunde, a collaborative multi-pronged intervention designed to boost early literacy outcomes in 4- and 5-year-olds. This brief describes: • how the intervention was designed; • how close monitoring of implementation enabled improvements to the design over time.