SCALING UP EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ECD) (0-4 YEARS) IN SOUTH AFRICA Support Structures Dena Lomofsky Managing Director / Senior Consultant Southern Hemisphere Consultants (
[email protected]) Valerie Flanagan Director Development Alternatives (
[email protected]) Liezl Coetzee Senior Consultant Southern Hemisphere Consultants (
[email protected]) July 2008 1 Scaling up Early Childhood Development (ECD) (0-4 Years) in South Africa Human Sciences Research Council July 2008 Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Interdepartmental Committee for Early Childhood Development and the Director-General's Social Cluster. This project was co-funded by the Department of Education, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the HSRC. The Interdepartmental Committee for Early Childhood Development acted as a Reference Group for the project. This committee is chaired by the Department of Social Development and includes representatives from the Departments of Education, Health, Arts and Culture, and Public Works, and the Office on the Rights of the Child in the Presidency. The authors' views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the Interdepartmental Committee for Early Childhood Development, the Department of Education or the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The authors would particularly like to thank members of the HSRC research team Miriam Altman, Linda Biersteker, Prof. Andy Dawes, Judith Streak and members of the Interdepartmental Committee for Early Childhood Development for their input and guidance on this report. We would also like to thank all the organisations that participated in the primary research and shared their valuable insights with us. Produced by: Dena Lomofsky, Valerie Flanagan and Liezl Coetzee Contact: Dr Miriam Altman Executive Director: CPEG, HSRC E-mail:
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