Yizani Sifunde: How a multi-pronged intervention strengthened teaching and learning in ECD centres

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dc.contributor.authorvon Blottnitz, Magali
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-22T13:40:38Z
dc.date.available2024-11-22T13:40:38Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionYizani Sifunde (isiXhosa for “come, let’s read”) aimed to boost early literacy outcomes at under-resourced early childhood development (ECD) centres in the Eastern Cape. It was implemented in three one-year cycles between 2021 and 2023. The project was initiated and funded by the Liberty Community Trust, and jointly designed and delivered by three literacy nonprofits: Book Dash, Nal’ibali and Wordworks. Local Eastern Cape partners ITEC and Khululeka supported implementation. Social Impact Insights Africa carried out the external evaluation. More information on the Yizani Sifunde project can be found on https://bookdash.org/yizani-sifunde/ This Learning Brief was written for the Yizani Sifunde project by Dr Magali von Blottnitz, with input from other project partners. It draws extensively on an external evaluation conducted by Social Impact Insights Africa. Liberty Community Trust holds the intellectual property rights to the evaluation results and gave permission for them to be shared subject to specific acknowledgements.
dc.description.abstractThis is the fourth 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 changes the project made possible in early childhood development (ECD) centres, related to resources, practitioner attitudes and teaching practices, centre management, and overall ECD quality; • how durable these shifts were; and • how these shifts contributed to young children’s development. It finds that, for the participating ECD centres, the Yizani Sifunde intervention led to radically improved access to learning materials, better equipped book corners, improved confidence of practitioners with story-based literacy activities. The brief also reveals improvements in the ECD practitioners' experience of parental engagement. Areas where there was still room for improvement include emerging writing and the children's independent use of book corners remain. The brief further provides multiple sources of data revealing that the practices of the intervention have been largely sustained after project exit.
dc.description.sponsorshipLiberty Community Trust
dc.identifier.citationvon Blottnitz, M. (2024). Exploring the impact of a collaborative, multi-pronged ECD literacy intervention on 4- and 5-year olds, Brief 4, Yizani Sifunde: Cape Town. Based on an external evaluation by Social Impact Insights Africa and funded by the Liberty Community Trust.
dc.identifier.urihttps://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1777
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1659
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherLiberty Community Trust, Wordworks, Book Dash and Nal'ibali
dc.relation.ispartofseriesYIZANI SIFUNDE LEARNING BRIEF SERIES; 4
dc.subjectEarly learning
dc.subjectEarly literacy
dc.subjectEarly Childhood Development
dc.subjectYizani Sifunde
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectEastern Cape
dc.subjectECD centres
dc.subjectLiberty Community Trust
dc.subjectWordworks
dc.subjectNal'ibali
dc.subjectBook Dash
dc.subjectKhululeka
dc.subjectITEC
dc.subjectImpact Evaluation
dc.subjectECERS
dc.subjectLearning Programme Quality Assessment
dc.subjectLPQA
dc.subjectTriple-Cocktail approach
dc.subjectChildren's Books
dc.subjectBook ownership
dc.subjectLittle Stars
dc.subjectStory Sparkers
dc.subjectReading
dc.subjectSocial Impact Insights Africa
dc.subjectECD classroom
dc.subjectPre-Grade R
dc.subjectPractitioner training
dc.subjectBook corners
dc.subjectstorytelling
dc.subjectchild engagement
dc.titleYizani Sifunde: How a multi-pronged intervention strengthened teaching and learning in ECD centres
dc.title.alternativeExploring the impact of a collaborative, multi-pronged early literacy intervention on 4- and 5-year-olds - Brief 4
dc.typeWorking Paper

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