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Evidence-Based Response to ECD During the Covid-19 Crisis in India

This study was conducted to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young children and their caregivers.

This report looks at how the Covid-19 lockdown in India in 2020, which shut down a range of early years services, affected young children, their caregivers and frontline workers. Based on interviews with 10,112 households and 2,916 frontline workers across 11 Indian states, it summarises the pandemic experiences of parents and service providers, and makes recommendations for strengthening services for the future.

Some of the key recommendations emerging from the study are to recognize and celebrate frontline workers’ efforts; make efforts to sustain the involvement of fathers in their children’s lives post pandemic; and generate evidence to understand the impact of the pandemic on child-level outcomes.


The study was conducted by Dalberg Advisors and Kantar Public, in collaboration with NITI Aayog and supported by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Porticus, Echidna Giving and Dalberg.

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