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GAMECHANGERS - Theory of Change

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Long-term impact: All young children in communities in Malawi and Rwanda have crucial skills such as problem-solving, creative thinking and cooperation 

Outcomes 

1: Families are better able to take care of children  

Intermediate outcomes:

  • Through ensuring families are part of adapted self-help/savings groups, household income and community resources increase. Through self-help group training/parenting interventions household income is invested in young children
  • Through learning by doing in free play, playful parenting and inclusion through (government supported) home-visiting programs, coaches and parenting courses caregivers spend quality time with their children. 

2: Children are encouraged to play freely 

Intermediate outcome:

  • Through setting up play centres at religious, community or ECD centers and through outreach to fathers by ‘play champions’, toy-making, and intergenerational play activities children have increased opportunities for free play. 

3: Improved opportunities for playful learning for ALL children 

Intermediate outcomes:

  • Through business development for ECD, ensuring they run on parents-fees, in-kind support (food, maintenance) and community infrastructure, centers can operate without needing (substantial) external funding, ensuring that all children have access to child centers. 
  • Through including 21st-century skills and free play, inclusion of children with disabilities in teacher training, through involving ECD staff with play-centers, ECD centers are centers of quality. 

4: Scaling of best practices through well-equipped structures 

Intermediate outcome:

  • Through supporting ECD staff to access digital platforms that are used for training, sharing data for monitoring and through connecting ECD-actors at (inter)national levels policies, trainings and curricula are based on local evidence and research on ECD is improved. 

The role of data and access to data

While the first three gamechangers are merely focussed on system change at community level, the fourth gamechanger is about connecting the dots at national and international level. The below visual shows how this metalevel gamechanger cooperates with the other three in reaching our ultimate and sustainable goal: for young children (0-7) in rural Malawi and Rwanda to be resilient, have adaption power and maximum learning capacity to cope with present and future challenges.

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