The document discusses the necessary factors for successful preschool education implementation and analyzes case studies from Brazil, Kenya, Bangladesh, and Ghana. It finds that political stability, national healthcare systems, and urbanization help enable early childhood care and development by providing for children's cognitive, physical, and social development. Preschool enrollment and education completion rates vary significantly between the countries studied. The document also examines Burundi's socioeconomic challenges and proposes areas of development like primary education, healthcare, and early childhood education programs to boost human capital formation over the short- and long-term.

1. What is necessary for
successful implementation of
preschool education

2. Early childhood development (ECD)
↓
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

3. Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs)

4. Reduce 1/2 of poverty
(1.2 billion people live in
extreme poverty)
All the children complete
primary education
(57 million out-of-school
children of primary school
age)
Household Poverty

5. ECD’s Positive influences in MDGs
- Reduce by two-thirds infant and under-5 morality
- Reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters
- Universal primary enrolment by 2015
- Gender equality in education by 2015
- Reduce by half the percentage living in extreme
poverty by 2015
- National strategies for sustainable development

7. Case Studies
 Brazil
 Kenya
 People’s Republic of Bangladesh
 Ghana
Political and Socio-Economic Profile
Health Care
Educational Profile
Educational Financing

8. 67%
94%
82%
2%
21%
3%
87%
52%
87%
70%
5%
50%
26%
24%
23%
95%
66%
5%
32%
10%
28%
75%
84%
94%
4%
29%
34%
52%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Brazil
Kenya
Bangladesh
Ghana

9. 67%
94%
82%
77%
52%
87%
70%
61%
95%
66%
63%
75%
84%
94%
79%
50%
55%
60%
65%
70%
75%
80%
85%
90%
95%
100%
Children enrolled in
preschool
Children enrolled in
primary school
Completion rate of
enrolled students
Completion rate of
entire child
population
Brazil
Kenya
Bangladesh
Ghana

10. Analysis
Healthcare
School feeding programs
School health and nutrition
services
Urbanization

11. Political stability
National Health Care
Urbanization
↓
ECCD
•Provides child’s
Cognitive Development
Physical Development
Social Development

12. Burundi
 Population living below $1 per
day: 67%
 Unemployment rate: 6.5% to
14.4%
 Children under-five with chronic
malnutrition: 58%
 Childhood mortality rate:
139/1,000 (10th highest in the
world)

13.  Preschool enrolment: 8%
 Primary school enrolment: 77%
 Primary school completion: 61.5% of
students (47% of all Burundi children)

14. Problems and Possible Areas of
Development in Burundi
 High inflation of imported essential supplies (food &
oil)
 Higher debt = Struggle to invest in its domestic
development
 Low GDP growth (3 to 4%) for the population growth
rate (3%/year)
 Too weak to reduce poverty rate
 High international debt
↓
 Lack of invest budget in capital investments, public
services (security, education, med care)

15. Possible Areas of Development
Human Resources
Primary Education and Health Care
↓
More health education, reduce of
communicable diseases, infant mortality
rate, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS

16. Short-term (2020-2025) Advantages
How to bring ECCD program in to the country
 How to bring ECCD programs in to Burundi
 Free Food and Free Health Care
 Local staff
 Physical Care
 Future Leadership Development

17. Long-term Advantages
Increase of social cohesion by development of
human resources
 Increase of educated leaders and work force
↓
 Development of new industry
 Payment of stable salaries
 Reduction of unemployment rate
 Spread of medical treatment institution
 Reduction of poverty
 Increase of financial resources for further free
education

18. Stable income sources
↓
Urbanization
Strengthen education
Spread of child health and nutrition
and medical support
(Spread of free maternal and child
health care services)