Aide et Action - Early Childhood Care and Educati

Situation
	An infant mortality rate of 62 per 1000 live births
	Under five mortality rates of 85 per 1000 live births
	79% of the children of the poor not fully immunized

AeA Approaches
AeA believes that Early Childhood Care and Education is an important precondition for universalization of education. It undertakes programmes for holistic development of children between 0 to 6 years.

	Awareness building among communities on child care and child development in all AeA's NGO partner areas through systematic processes
	Building community ownership and responsibilities towards government run child care centres (anganwadis, balwadis etc.)
	Capacitating a cadre of trained professionals in childhood care and education who would engage in running Balwadis (crèches) as self employment in urban and rural areas, and
	Policy advocacy on issues of early childhood care and education with a special focus on universalisation of services by the government

Key Interventions
	Implementation of ECCE projects through partners, 77 centers covering 1298 children functional for early child care providing day care facilities and pre primary education
	Documentation of best practices in ECCE
	Development of an entrepreneurship model to run ECCE centers
	Regular consultations and workshops to identify priorities for AeA in the area of ECCE
	Advocacy efforts towards universalization of pre school services and comprehensive ECCE policy