Ghana
Supporting children to reach their full potential
The Government of Ghana has made a strong commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, with an emphasis on access to quality ECD services.
As a significant milestone, Ghana launched its first multi-sectoral early childhood care and development (ECCD) policy in 2004. This pioneering move has led to remarkable progress, particularly in expanding access to early childhood education (ECE) programmes for children between the ages of 3 and 6. In 2018, the government strengthened its commitment to children under the age of 3 by publishing the ECCD Standards for 0-3 years. Building on these standards, in 2019, there was a call to action to adopt UNICEF's Nurturing Care Framework. This emphasized the government's pledge to ensure good health, provide adequate nutrition, maintain safety and security, offer responsive caregiving, and create opportunities for learning.
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Thrive’s objective in Ghana is to craft and execute a comprehensive national research agenda. This agenda will bolster national systems and address the global ECD priority of producing compelling evidence on how to effectively scale quality ECD programs. Ultimately, our aim is to support children throughout Ghana and beyond in reaching their full potential.
Consistent with this direction, the Thrive Ghana research aims to:
Bolster the Government of Ghana's endeavours in executing its current ECE policy, ensuring children aged 4-5 years receive quality education, and
Produce evidence that aids in shaping ECD policy, with a focus on children aged 0-3 years.
Project Approach
At the heart of our approach is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and context-sensitive research methodology.
This methodology is designed to inform policy and practice as well as deepen our understanding of what children in Ghana need to thrive. Maintaining research integrity and objectivity, our studies are designed and executed by teams of local and international researchers in close collaboration with national stakeholders, which includes policymakers, bureaucrats, practitioners, NGOs, and international organizations.
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Their insights are integral throughout the research cycle, shaping the questions we tackle and guiding our interpretation of outcomes. This collaborative model ensures both domestic ownership and the practical application of our findings.
Local Research Partnership
Thrive Ghana is engaging with the University of Cape Coast to establish an ‘ECD Centre of Excellence’, a community of researchers bringing together local and international experts from different disciplines, exchanging knowledge and ideas, collaborating on research and building sustainable research capacity by engaging and supporting Ghanaian early career research on Thrive funded projects.
Our Projects
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Our Ghana Partners
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
University of Pennsylvania
Lively Minds
An expert team of Researchers, Investigators, Specialists & Consultants
Our team work in collaboration with ministries and national decision-makers, academics, and institutions, and the broader global community of development organisation to improve childhood health and wellbeing.
Our locations
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Bangladesh
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Ghana
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Kiribati
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Sierra Leone
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Tanzania
