Curriculum guide: Strengthening families for better early childhood outcomes

This curriculum guide provides support for a 6-step parenting education programme for low income families that can be adapted to the local culture and that reflects parents’ goals for their children’s development.

This curriculum guide supports a strengths-based, culturally sensitive approach to parenting education. It explores how parents with low levels of education can strengthen their skills and confidence to effectively support their children’s development, from birth to 8 years.

The guide aims to harness the best parenting practices that already exist in the community to build new effective practices that reflect parents’ goals for their children’s development. It also aims to build early childhood leadership in communities, as well as a sustainable skills base for supporting and managing child health, learning, and protection initiatives in the community.