Cases
Find out more about what we’ve achieved and learned through our work in various parts of the world.
Home visiting services scale up in Brazil
After just 18 months, home visitors from Brazil’s national Criança Feliz home visiting programme were reaching over half a million children, and more than half of all municipalities across the… Read more
Pilot for Syrian refugees wins US$100m grant
In 2017, the MacArthur Foundation awarded a USD 100 million grant to Sesame Workshop and the IRC for joint work in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. This created an exciting… Read more
Convenings bring new ideas on Urban95 and Parents+
In 2017 and 2018, we held “convenings” on our investment areas Urban95 and Parents+, bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders from the early childhood field and beyond with a… Read more
Peer Cities Network spreads innovations in Israel
Our partners the Urban Clinic at Hebrew University established the Peer Cities Network to enable Urban95 solutions to scale across Israel by providing a space for cities to exchange experiences… Read more
Improving parenting at scale through existing health workers
Visits from community health workers have been shown to have positive effects on the health, nutrition, learning and safety of young children in Peru. The Foundation has been working in… Read more
Advocating Paid Leave for New Dads
Research shows that the father’s presence in the earliest stages of a child’s life is closely related to the amount of involvement they have in the child’s later upbringing. Their… Read more
Digitaf shows how Tel Aviv is prioritising young children
Every child born in Tel Aviv is now sent a Digitaf card. Launched in December 2017, Digitaf – which reads in Hebrew as a pun on ‘digital for toddlers’ –… Read more
Scaling up mother tongue-based preschool in Odisha
In March 2016, the Bernard van Leer Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Women and Child Development Department of the Government of Odisha, an Indian state with a… Read more
The Beginning of Life documentary
Available on Netflix and other platforms, and in multiple languages, the documentary The Beginning of Life (O Começo da Vida) emotionally brings to life the science behind the importance of… Read more
Engaging Kids to Make São Paulo's Streets Safer
Children building themselves a tyre swing in a public play space may sound like an unremarkable, everyday event rather than the stuff of headlines. But when this happened in November… Read more