Programme development:
Bright Start Foundation programmes and projects are informed by systematic and rigorous analysis of academic research, expert and stakeholder opinion, and educational and social policies aiming to bringing about ground-breaking practices and inform policy.
Programmes and projects are undertaken in partnership and collaboration with key stakeholders who have vested interest in advancing early childhood practices and policies, locally and globally.
Our Vision
We envision to enable and create a better landscape for a fair and sustainable future for the most precious members of our society, the young children, whom we view as citizen’s of today and tomorrow, and agents of and for change.
We maintain a holistic vision of citizenship, from cradle to grave, breaking barriers and boundaries of discourses and practices which see early childhood as a preparation stage for the citizen of tomorrow to realise children’s rights for lifelong citizenship, decision making.
Our Partners
We work with academia and researchers, with civil society organisations, with funders and government departments, with early childhood educators, communities, families and children for programme and project co-development and design, and evidence co-production envisioning a sustainable future for children in a rapidly changing world. Bright Start Foundation projects are not limited to formal early childhood education, but integrate and forge non-formal, informal, intergenerational, and cross-cultural learning.
Monitoring and impact evaluation
Bright Start programmes and projects also contribute to evidence building to further our understanding and knowledge, and inform relevant practices and policies.
Thus, all programmes and projects are monitored and evaluated for their direct impact and benefit for participants and their implications for the wider early childhood community.
Data gathered and analysed is intended to tell the programme or project story, and
deliver sound evaluative judgements for decision making, and actionable and
sustainable practice and policy reform.
Evaluation framework
Programme and project impact evaluation framework has a three-pronged focus, that is:
· Outcomes for children and their families, the educators, and the wider community.
· Exploration of evidence-based innovative pedagogical approaches investing on the voices of children.
· Policy recommendations for enhancing and enriching early childhood curricula implemented in formal, non-formal and informal early childhood education and care settings.
Ethos
Project development and design, monitoring and evaluation are conducted in an atmosphere of trust, where collaboration, openness, respect for and of difference and diversity are encouraged and promoted.
We are a diverse and inclusive organisation, fostering a culture of organisational and individual learning and empowerment.
For monitoring and impact evaluation, informed consent is received by all programme and project participants, adhering to ethical guidelines about social research, while due respect is paid to local and cultural norms and conventions.
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