Improving Early Childhood Development in Rural Ghana Through Scalable Community-Run Play Schemes: Programme Impact Evaluation Report

Published on 3 July 2020

This report presents the main findings of the project “Improving early childhood development in rural Ghana through scalable low-cost community-run play schemes''.

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This report presents the main findings of the project “Improving early childhood development in rural Ghana through scalable low-cost community-run play schemes''. The project is run in collaboration between The Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK), Lively Minds (UK, Ghana) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA, Ghana), and is funded by the Jacobs Foundation and Global Innovation Fund (GIF). ESRC funding is also gratefully acknowledged.

    Authors

    Orazio Attanasio

    Sarah Cattan
    Sarah Cattan

    Research Fellow

    Sarah is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

    Sonya Krutikova
    Sonya Krutikova

    Deputy Research Director

    Sonya Krutikova is a Professor of Economics at Manchester University and IFS Deputy Research Director.

    Bet Caeyers
    Bet Caeyers

    Research Associate Yale University, Stockholm University and FAIR/Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

    Bet is a Research Associate of the IFS who is an Adjunct Associate Professor at FAIR/Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

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    Peter Leighton

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    Lina Cardona Sosa

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    Salifu Amadu

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    Mubarik Yakubu

    Report details

    DOI
    10.1920/re.ifs.2024.0434
    Publisher
    IFS

    Suggested citation

    Amadu, S et al. (2020). Improving Early Childhood Development in Rural Ghana Through Scalable Community-Run Play Schemes: Programme Impact Evaluation Report. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/improving-early-childhood-development-rural-ghana-through-scalable-community-run-play (accessed: 24 April 2025).

    Grant

    Human capital accumulation in developing countries: mechanisms, constraints and policies (HKADeC) ESRC Institute for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy

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