The programme will include three key components:

• Development of a high-quality, cost-effective early learning model to help young children gain important literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills to succeed in primary school. Activities will include developing teaching and learning materials, and testing and implementing the model in both Government and private preschools
• Independent third-party evaluation to measure the impact of the programme on children, using the standard Kenya School Readiness Assessment Tool developed by the Government
• Global advocacy to share the results and lessons learnt from Kenya’s model, to inform other countries, donors, private sector providers and non-state actors, and to advance the cost-effectiveness of future early childhood education programmes

By 2018, the Tayari programme will have reached 118,148 learners aged 4-6 years in 2,076 Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) centres: 1,772 public and 304 low-cost private centres. Through the programme, 4,307 teachers will be trained and supported by county government officers.

Teacher training modules, teacher guides and learners’ materials have been developed and are compliant with the competency-based curriculum that was launched by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development in January 2018. The teachers and learners are provided with teacher guides and learners workbooks, respectively, at a ratio of 1:1.

In addition, Tayari has a hand-washing component alongside education. At St Agnes Junior School Centre in Njiru slum, the children are committed to washing their hands with soap and water before taking their snack and after using the toilet during break times.