Using Evidence and Coalitions to Scale-Up a National Early Education Initiative

The Case of Law 248/2015 in Romania

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ID22077154
AuthorsMaria Gheorghiu (Association for Liberty and Equality of Gender), Leslie Hawke, Joost De Laat (0000-0003-1637-3277, Utrecht University), Cătălina-Alexandra Papari (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume8
Pages591421-591421
Publication date2021-02-16
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpubh.2020.591421
PMID33665179
OpenAlexW3129841559
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

In 2015, Romania took an important step toward increasing disadvantaged children's participation in early education programmes through the passage of legislation creating a nationwide conditional cash transfer programme linked to preschool attendance. The programme was modeled on the incentive component of a 5-year pilot project “Every Child in Preschool” (“FCG”) initiated by Asociatia OvidiuRo (“OvR”), a small non-governmental organization. This paper explores how OvR used evidence from its pilot, global research, a quasi-experimental evaluation, collaboration with local authorities, and an intensive advocacy effort toward the legislative and executive branches of the national government to achieve the national scale-up of an early education initiative designed to create equal access in kindergarten among Roma and other impoverished, marginalized children

Attendance · Cash transfers · Conditional cash transfer · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Incentive · Legislation · Legislature · Political science · Poverty · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Public Administration · Romani and Gypsy Studies

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