Influencing early childhood education policy & practice
Sabre Education builds strong partnerships to improve early childhood education policy and practice.
Sabre collaborates with the Ghana government to introduce landmark national policies and programmes. Together, we strengthen the education system to ensure sustainable, quality early childhood education.
Timeline
Policy milestones
2008
Free, compulsory kindergarten education added to all public schools
2018
Establishment of the Bachelor of Education degree in Early Years
2020
Early Childhood Education Policy adopted
2025
Ghana receives funding for the ECE Scale Programme
2012
Kindergarten operational plan created
2019
Standard-based curriculum mainstreamed, with a play-based child-centred pedagogy for kindergarten
2023
National Kindergarten teacher training manual adopted
Ghana’s Goal
Nationally Scaling Quality Kindergarten Teacher Training
In 2023, Ghana reached a major milestone: the Ghana Education Service launched the national kindergarten teacher training package, co-developed by Sabre, Right To Play, Innovations for Poverty Action, and UNICEF. This scalable, impact-driven, play-based approach would train over 30,000 public school kindergarten teachers, strengthening the early childhood education system and impacting 1.2 million kindergarten children across Ghana.
