Impact Evaluation of Scaled-up Early Childhood Development Activities in Rural Mozambique 2019: Endline Survey (Mozambique)

Abstract

As part of the Education Sector Support Project, financial support has been provided by the World Bank, to the Republic of Mozambique for the purpose of scaling-up Early Childhood Development (ECD) activities in the country starting from 2012. The project includes the creation of 150 new community based ECD centers across 5 provinces in a first phase, and subsequently 200 additional centers in a second phase. This impact evaluation concerns the second phase of implementation and aims primarily at assessing the impact of ECD provision in rural area under governmental management using uses Clustered Random Control Trial at community level. The Endline datasets includes a household survey, target child assessment, and community leader questionnaire. The Endline survey data collection was carried out between December 2019 and March 2020.