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Early childhood education is a priority for the Government of Liberia and USAID Liberia. Together for Early Childhood Evidence membership offers an opportunity for ECE stakeholders to come together to discuss key issues.

The country team in Liberia has been meeting since 2019. The team completed the CPDMA diagnostic toolkit to define the purposes of pre-primary data in Liberia and align university and ministry priorities for how data can improve ECE quality. The team identified changing classroom instruction as an area where ECE data would provide the greatest leverage for changes in behaviors. 

Liberia has a new pre-primary curriculum, which emphasizes play-based and child-centered methods, but this curriculum has yet to be rolled out in teacher training institutions. The majority of pre-primary teachers do not have access to the new curriculum. As an extension of the Together for Early Childhood Evidence work, the Liberia team has been working on a pilot study to monitor teaching practices in pre-primary classrooms.

 

Key Indicators from Liberia 

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.9 a day (PPP) % of population 41%
GDP per capita (PPP) $1,487
Net enrolment rate for PPE 59%
% Stunted Children (under 5) 30%
Under-5 mortality rate per 1,000 live births 85

Data from UNESCO and UNICEF 

Country Team Members

Cecelia Cassell Dean Teachers College, University of Liberia
Gabriel Nelson Director Division of Early Childhood, Ministry of Education
Jebbeh Gray Chairperson, Instructor Early Childhood Education, Teachers College, University of Liberia
Alphonso Wright Child Development Practitioner University of Liberia
Madia Herring Mansah Executive Director Curriculum Development and Textbooks Research, Ministry of Education
Aliou Tall Education Officer USAID Liberia

 

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Brief Early Quality Inventory (BEQI) Pilot in Liberia

The University of Liberia Teachers College is partnering with the Ministry of Education and ECD Measure to adapt the Brief Early Quality Inventory (BEQI) to measure classroom quality in Liberia pre-primary classrooms.

Read more about the BEQI project in Liberia

Featured work from Liberia

Check out Liberia's work on early childhood data and measurement issues.

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