1. Early Childhood Education

2. Selection of Area • Mandal: • Mandals where Health and Nutrition centres are running • Mandals where Institution Building is strong. • Mandals with higher proportion of SC/ST population/PoP. • Village: • Villages having higher number of children between the ages of 2 – 5 belonging to the Poorest of Poor (POP) families

3. Teacher • Criteria for teachers • The candidate shall be between 18 – 30 years of age. • Shall be the resident of the village where ECE centre is to be established. • The candidate must have fluency in speaking the local dialect. • Minimum Qualification of the youth – Tenth class. • Teachers are selected through a written exam and interview conducted by an expert team. • After selection, teachers are given an intensive 16 days training programme at Sodhana.

4. Community Ownership • Micro credit plan is prepared by MMS. • The MMS collects monthly fee from the community from the first year itself. • The money collected from the community is used to create a corpus fund. • This fund will be used to help run the centres after SERP stops funding.

5. Monitoring of Centres • One Cluster Coordinator (CC) for every 10 ECE centres. • One Mandal Coordinator for each mandal. • A school committee of parents and village elders responsible for proper upkeep and functioning of the school.

6. Public Report • The teacher presents a Public Report to the parents and the village community once every month. • Children of the school demonstrate and exhibit their learning attained during the preceding month during this presentation. • This kind of reporting strengthens the accountability process and also fosters closer association with the community.

7. ECE Centres • List of centres

8. Budget

9. Budget contd…

10. Thank You!!!