S7E1 - Implementing a Humanitarian Needs Assessment Framework for ECD

On this episode of Behind the Pages, Kim Foulds reveals how being with Rohingya parents in Cox's Bazaar and talking with them about their perspectives on the value of play, their own childhood games, and what they wanted to see in educational media for their children was a formative experience for the Sesame Workshop team working to develop new programming for Rohingya refugees. In their field note, "Implementing a Humanitarian Needs Assessment Framework for Early Childhood Development: Informing Intervention Design for Displaced Rohingya Communities in Bangladesh," Foulds and her co-authors Naureen Khan, Sneha Subramanian, and Ashraful Haque argue that designing interventions to align with the priorities of the communities they serve, and deep understanding of the local context are keys to the long-term sustainability of program outcomes. Behind the Pages is the podcast of the Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE). This season of Behind the Pages features timely and dynamic conversations with authors from the JEiE Special Issue on Early Childhood Development in Emergencies. For more information about JEiE, and to read all JEiE issues free of charge, visit inee.org/journal.