Welcome to Solinia ECD
Early Childhood Development (ECD) Department in 2012 with the mission ”to provide quality ECD services and to ensure sustainable ECD centers which will enable a solid foundation in young children’s development’.
We are implementing a Roger Federer Foundation (RFF) grant embedded in a “School Readiness Initiative Malawi (SRI) project”, in Mzimba, Karonga and Nkhata bay districts, from 2020 until April 2026.
The effort is aimed at, among others, scaling up access of vulnerable children to appropriate learning facilities in pre-schools as well as lower grades of primary schools. The bigger picture is enshrined in the establishment of joint responsibility of all stakeholders for early learning improvements in the ECD/Education sector.
Outcome Objective 1
Establishing processes of joint responsibility for early learners
We are establishing processes of joint responsibility of all stakeholders in ECD and Education from home,community, district to national level for early learners.
Outcome Objective 2
Scaling access to age-appropriate learning facilities
We are scaling up access pf the bigger picture to age appropriate early learning facilities and services in 1155 CBCCs and early grades of 577 primary schools in Malawi.
Outcome Objective 3
Enhance the competency of caregivers and teachers on early learning
We are contributing in the bigger picture of building capacity and enhancing competency of 2310 caregivers and 1000 early grades teachers in early learning to offer quality early education and a good start at the target schools, through a self-guided group-learning course, peer to peer learning and easy-to-apply tools for monitoring the children’s development towards school readiness.
Programme Milestones
The following are programme's Milestones
Expected Beneficiaries
The whole project, with all partners involved, focuses on 900 CBCCs and around 600 schools from 19 districts have been targeted. These include the existing 480 model and satellite CBCCs and 300 schools under the 10-year comprehensive ECD Programme. Around 380 learning groups are expected to be formed comprising of public primary schools and feeder CBCCs. The number of feeder CBCCs to a primary school ranges from one to five.
By the end of the programme the reach is expected to be as follows: Children enrolled in the pre‐primary class = 55,200; Parents targeted (50% of children enrolled) = 27,100; PP class teachers (2 per CBCC) = 1,800; and Standard 1 Teachers (1 per class) = 600.
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500
6Years
$ 558.2Million
Team Member
We are a team of passionate professionals focusing on transforming the ECD sector from grassroots.
Isaac Munyimbili
Field officer
Caroline Phiri
District Project Coordinator- DPC
Walusungu Chagara
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Patricia Silumbu
Field Officer
