Supporting Preprimary Parent Engagement in South Sudan : Lessons from Eight Parent Education Programs
This literature review aims to understand the design and content of successful preprimary parenting programs specifically those implemented in fragile, conflict, and violent contexts. This document serves as a resource guide for the creation of a p...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/745441593757618207/Supporting-Preprimary-Parent-Engagement-in-South-Sudan-Lessons-from-Eight-Parent-Education-Programs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34083 |
| Summary: | This literature review aims to
understand the design and content of successful preprimary
parenting programs specifically those implemented in
fragile, conflict, and violent contexts. This document
serves as a resource guide for the creation of a preprimary
parenting program for the South Sudanese context, to enhance
school readiness of children between the ages of 3 to 5
years through basic literacy, numeracy, and socio emotional
skills. This paper provides a brief overview of the benefits
of parent engagement early in life and explores eight
parenting programs whose design and implementation can be
useful to increase the engagement of parents in preprimary
skill development in South Sudan. Bearing in mind the
context of South Sudan, five key criteria that guided
selection of the programs included: (i) low cost of
implementation, (ii) use of local resources, (iii) creation
of contextually relevant curriculum, (iv) supporting parents
who do not know how to read and write, and (v) evidence of
benefits following empirical testing. It is important to
have a clear picture of the lived experience of young
children, their families and communities in South Sudan
prior to designing a program that is relevant and
appropriately meets their needs. This paper provides a brief
overview of existing literature on the benefits of parent
engagement early in life and explores eight parenting
programs that have been designed and implemented in Ghana,
Chad, Cameroon, Rwanda, Liberia, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon
to boost parent engagement in the lives of their young
children. By doing this, the paper aims to create a resource
document that can inform the development of a
context-specific parenting program model for South Sudan. |
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