Score ECD
About Score ECD
AOSK SCORE ECD is a project that started in 2017. It is funded by Conrad Hilton through Catholic relief services. The project targets children in their first 1000 days in life. The goal of the project is that children under in Kenya thrive in a sustainable culture of care and support. It has two main objectives: Children under two attain age developmental milestone and sister organizations sustain ECD activities at national and sub-national levels.
The project uses the nurturing care framework platform on early stimulation, safety and security, opportunities in early learning, nutrition, and health.
The Association trains sisters who reach out to the caregivers with messages in key WASH and infant and young child feeding behaviors, key health care seeking behavior, adoption of key early stimulation
and positive parenting behavior by pregnant and lactating women and primary caregivers. The Association also trains the sister congregations on resources, financial and human resource mobilization and management. Finally there is networking and advocacy for high quality ECD programs. All this is to
assist sisters assume ownership of ECD services.

Background:
CRS and Implementing Partners Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the official international humanitarian agency of US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was founded in 1943 and carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas in over 100 countries around the world. CRS programs assist persons based on need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality and works through local church and non- church partners to implement its programs. Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations.
Project Background
The overall goal of SCORE IV is that children 0-5 years old in the target areas receive quality inclusive nurturing environments by 2028. It aims to enhance the organizational capacity of national associations of sisters and their congregations so that these local actors will maximize the well-being of pregnant women, mothers, fathers, and children under five years old by supporting sisters, congregations, households, ECD centers, and communities. Through these efforts, Catholic sisters will deliver quality early childhood development services to caregivers of children aged 0 to 5 years. Additionally, caregivers will provide nurturing care to their young children. Success will be demonstrated by a comprehensive combination of improved knowledge, skills, and attitudes, functional and sustainable systems, and tangible community-led actions that contribute to inclusive well-being and improved learning environment, including climate change adaptation measures and sisters acting as leaders in their communities to spread their knowledge even further. CRS has proven systems for measuring the project's outputs and outcomes for individuals, sisters, associations, congregations, households, and community groups, and will use regular monitoring and evaluation processes to track progress and adapt interventions as needed.

Aim
SCORE ECD is a collaborative project of AOSK and CRS which aims at enhancing Sisters’ capacities to positively impact the lives of the children they serve, and to be better positioned to continue and expand quality Early Child Development interventions in the future. AOSK coordinates the project across 10 Congregations.
Goal
Children 0-5 years old receive inclusive, quality, nurturing Care by 2028
Objectives
The overall goal of SCORE IV is that children 0-5 years old in the target areas receive quality, inclusive nurturing environments by 2028.
The Strategic Objectives are:
meet our amazing team
The Faces Behind our Work

Sr. Teresa Yator
AOSK SCORE ECD PROGRAM MANAGER

Christine Nguna
AOSK SCORE -ECD PROGRAM OFFICER