Centre for Learning Resources and HCL Foundation have collaborated to run an ECCD centre for children in the age group of 6 months to 6 years in an urban slum area in Lucknow. A 6-month pilot was focused on learning space creation, provision of nutrition and establishing basic ECCE and stimulation activities. The current programme is a continuation of the model developed during the pilot, which includes providing early stimulation and developmental inputs, focus on nutritional fulfillment and health check-ups. As part of programme, incremental training cycles on ECCE and age-appropriate stimulation are conducted for the workers and helpers of the ECCD Centre.

The ECCD centre is manned by two centre workers and one helper and caters to 20 to 25 children from the vicinity. The children get three meals over a period of seven hours and engage in different types of age appropriate developmental play activities.

CLR’s training cell continuously builds capacity of the workers and officers to implement intensive ECE program.

As a part of the program strategy, CLR collects data for program reviewing and feedback on Quality of the ECCD centre environment and interaction through measuring constructs such as Quality of Physical Environment, Health and Hygiene, Quality of Meal Time Routine, Caregiver/Worker Child Interaction, Quality of Developmental Play/Activities

Data on Nutritional status of each child is also collected to measure the nutritional impact of the intervention over time.