Tubakuze - Scaling-up Early Childhood Development in Rwanda Contract related to: Tubakuze - Scaling-up Early Childhood Development in Rwanda - The action aims to deliver a comprehensive support to the pre-primary sector in Rwanda (countrywide), a key priority area for education in the country. In the last 30 years, the country has established a pre-primary education (ages 3-6) sector as part of its public education system, with clear key targets enshrined in its main policy documents, to increase access and quality in this area. Several key challenges have been identified as key to address in order to uplift this sub-sector. For the expansion of access and in order to reach the government targets, there is a need to expand infrastructure, quality training for teachers, support the current national school feeding programme to reduce costs for families, and support the development and access to learning materials. As a young sub-sector, with the Early Childhood Development Policy having only been adopted in 2016, policy development, costing, curriculum, standards and assessments, still have to be further developed or implemented in order to further enhance quality. Lastly, the policy and implementation of this sub-sector also spread across several ministries and agencies, with need for further coordination. Based on the aforementioned challenges, this action will unfold into three components: a) access to pre-primary education, b) enhancing the quality of pre-primary education and c) good governance, including through promotion of integrated approaches across key sectors.In its first component, it will support classroom construction and school feeding. In its quality education component, it will support teacher-training, materials, assessments, training on inclusive education and methods, community interventions and links to key areas such as nutrition, health and parenting practices. In its good governance component, it will support better coordination amongst ministries, agencies, and better planning and strategy. Both gender equality and inclusiveness will be mainstreamed all throughout this action.This action is aligned with the European Consensus for Development, which recognises the importance of pre-primary education and quality education for long-lasting development, as well as the importance of children¿s needs, rights and aspirations, including in the context of comprehensive early childhood interventions. The intervention will also assist Rwanda to transform its education system and address deficits in teaching, training, and learning at all levels, thus contributing to implement the ¿Global Gateway¿ communication. The action will primarily contribute to SDG 4 (Quality Education), but also to 5 (Gender Equality), 10 (Reduced Inequality), 2 (Zero Hunger), 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and 3 (Good Health and Well Being). &nbsp;It will also contribute to OECD DAC codes 4.2.; 4.5; 4 a. and 4 c. under ¿Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all¿. This action is fully aligned to the government¿s priorities in this sub-sector and supports an overall increase of EU financing for education from 7% to 10%.This action should be delivered in a Team Europe approach through a twinning operation with the Ministry of Education for the governance part, as well as a blending operation with an EU development finance institution, further positioning the EU at the centre of this, mostly still unaddressed at scale, sub-sector.