Expanding Access to Early Childhood Development Using Interactive Audio Instruction : Guidelines for Program Design and Reportback on Prototyping in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A large body of solid evidencedemonstrates the significant effects of early childhoodeducation and development (ECED) interventions on children’ssuccess in school, long-term social integration, andimproved life chances. Interactive audio instruction (IAI)provides one solution to the challenge of providing highquality ECE at scale and at reasonable costs. The IAI mediumallows for the development and delivery of both teacher andcaregiver training and direct instruction, using bestpractices in ECE, and has demonstrated powerful results incontexts as diverse as Honduras, Nepal, El Salvador,Indonesia, Zanzibar, Malawi, and Paraguay. The documentoutlines a general approach to high-quality IAI productionfor ECD, and uses the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)case study to detail the development process. It alsoprovides technical recommendations for how to scale-upproduction and delivery in the DRC and considerations forprogram adaptation in other similar contexts, including anoutline of necessary steps and components, estimated costsof a program with broad reach and content depth (including afinancial model for production and program implementation),and a results monitoring and evaluation framework. Theattached report is divided into two parts. Part one outlinesthe process for scaling up an IAI program - from initialstart-up in a given community, to large scale expansion in acountry. It highlights the main steps in the productioncycle, the roles and responsibilities of government andcommunities, and provides useful tips for practitioners ateach stage of the process. Part two provides a summary ofhow this process was followed in DRC and lessons learned.
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