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
Orazio Attanasio

CPP Co-Director

Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Sarah Cattan
Sarah Cattan

Associate Director

Sarah is an Associate Director in the Education and Skills sector at the IFS, holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Sonya Krutikova
Sonya Krutikova

Deputy Research Director

Sonya Krutikova is an Associate 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

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: 4 December 2023).

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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