Ecosystem of KIX initiatives – Improving children’s literacy through the support of community networks.

GPE KIX conducts projects globally that generate actionable evidence for more than 70 low- and middle-income countries to address critical education system challenges. Learn more about the initiatives

Project 1- FOSDEH

Improving children’s literacy by supportingof community networks.

Led by World Vision Canadá and implemented together with the Instituto de Ontario para Estudios en Educación, la Escuela de Educación y Liderazgo de la Universidad de Ghana and the Foro Social de la Deuda Externa y Desarrollo de Honduras – FOSDEH -, the project seeks to improve literacy instruction and reading supports in the elementary schools of Ghana, Honduras y Nicaragua by adapting and scaling up the Unlock Literacy Learning Network approach, which has been successfully piloted in more than 30 countries.

The approach addresses the ways in which children in grades one through three learn to read, and how teachers, parents and communities can help, regardless of their literacy level. It also helps communities build a reading culture at school, at home and in the community. The model incorporates reading assessments, teacher training, community action, and teaching and learning materials.

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Since April 2021, with the participation of the school and community leadership, the Children’s Literacy Project has been implemented through the support of community networks in the departments of León, Estelí and Managua with the aim of reinforcing reading and writing skills in Nicaraguan children.