Community Health Workers play an essential role in ensuring access to nurturing care for families with children under five years. As frontline providers, the integration of The Virtues Project strategies empowers CHWs to foster positive, nurturing environments in families they support. By building caregiver capacity in virtues-based approaches, CHWs contribute to improved responsive caregiving and a safer, more stimulating environment for young children.
In Tanzania, many children under the age of five face challenges in accessing quality childcare and early childhood development (ECD) services, impacting their holistic growth. A significant proportion of families struggle to meet the nurturing needs critical to children's emotional, social, and cognitive development due to limited resources and support. In particular, urban and rural disparities in resources create gaps in the ability to provide essential nurturing care.
The Virtues Project (TVP) addresses this need by equipping caregivers in daycare centers and Community Health Workers/Volunteers (CHWs/Vs) with essential strategies that enhance nurturing care practices. TVP's focus on adaption of virtues-based approaches which empower caregivers to create positive, supportive spaces essential for early childhood development. Daycare providers apply these strategies in structured environments, while CHWs support families to adopt these practices in their homes.
By working with non-state ECD actors and government stakeholders, the project will advocate for the adoption of TVP as a national standard for promoting the practice of nurturing care in ECD programs. Additionally, a team of TVP Master Facilitators will work alongside other trained facilitators while identifying potential facilitators from among the CHW/Vs and Caregivers to be trained as facilitators. This will ensure continuous support and capacity building for CHWs/Vs and daycare caregivers.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
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