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 

Data from UNESCO and UNICEF 

Country Team Members