Using Evidence and Coalitions to Scale-Up a National Early Education Initiative: The Case of Law 248/2015 in Romania

Frontiers in Public Health

Maria Gheorghiu¹  Cǎtǎlina-Alexandra Papari²  Leslie Hawke³  Joost de Laat⁴ 

[1] Asociatia OvidiuRo, Bucharest, Romania;European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA), Brussels, Belgium;The AlexFund, New York, NY, United States;Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands;

关键词: scaling up;    early childhood development;    early childhood education;    education system;    education law;    conditional cash transfers;    roma children;    evaluation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.591421

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In 2015, Romania took an important step toward increasing disadvantaged children's participation in early education programmes through the passage of legislation creating a nationwide conditional cash transfer programme linked to preschool attendance. The programme was modeled on the incentive component of a 5-year pilot project “Every Child in Preschool” (“FCG”) initiated by Asociatia OvidiuRo (“OvR”), a small non-governmental organization. This paper explores how OvR used evidence from its pilot, global research, a quasi-experimental evaluation, collaboration with local authorities, and an intensive advocacy effort toward the legislative and executive branches of the national government to achieve the national scale-up of an early education initiative designed to create equal access in kindergarten among Roma and other impoverished, marginalized children.

【 授权许可】

CC BY