Integrated Early Childhood Development Project II

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The development objective of the Second Integrated Early Childhood Development Project for Eritrea is to improve the health, nutrition, and access to pre-school education of Eritrean children aged 6 and under in the project villages. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is maternal and child health and nutrition. This component will strengthen the community based health system in order to expand and sustain the household and community Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (HWC-IMCI), as well as growth monitoring and promotion in villages already covered in Phase I. The second component of the project is early childhood care and education (ECCE). This component will aim at consolidating quality provision of ECCE services already established in Phase I, expanding cost effective ECCE services to cover all children in the target villages, and ensuring sustainability of interventions in target communities after the completion of Phase II. The third component of the project is project management, monitoring, evaluation, advocacy and strategic communication. This component will provide overall coordination and manage cross cutting issues of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and advocacy and strategic communications.