Category: Tools

Profile Report template

This tool can be used to structure the data collected and analysed during the Understand phase, and to consolidate key findings related to the challenges and opportunities to early childhood development in the project site.

Care map

You can use this tool to discuss the patterns, strategies and difficulties of care, with caregivers in a specific location. This tool should be used in the initial, discovery stage of a project.

Personal diary

Personal diary is a personal reflection activity that can provide insights into the experiences of young children, caregivers and pregnant women in the everyday life in their home, neighbourhood or city.

Consent forms

Consent forms is a template that you could directly adapt to use in your project. It is also a reflection on the ethical practice in your assessment and design, and different aspects of projects that could impose ethical risk to participants.

Assessment workshop

Assessment workshop can be used to organise an assessment workshop with children, their caregivers, local educators, and community members to understand their perceptions (including needs and opportunities) about their neighbourhood. It offers a few activities that you could explore and adapt to your project.

Photo contest

Photo contest tool can support you in organising this type of exploratory activity with children and/or caregivers.

Mapping potential intervention sites

This tool advises on how to map potential intervention sites, and how to choose the one in which a new project could have the greatest impact.

Transect walk

Transect walk sheet is a tool for re-thinking the transect walk method through the Proximity of Care Framework.

Networks and gaps

This activity will help you to connect with groups of stakeholders that you may have left out of your engagement plan.

Stakeholder prioritisation

Stakeholder prioritisation is a template that can help you identify priority groups or individuals to engage with by thinking about their need for and influence on a project.

Proximity of Care and our work

The “Proximity of Care and our work” activity will help you to self-assess your understanding of the intersections of urban systems and early childhood development and identify the gaps and opportunities that you want to focus on in your projects.

Snapshot: Proximity of Care

Snapshot: Proximity of Care is a slide deck that can give you a quick overview of the Proximity of Care framework.

Inform your brief

This tool can support you in thinking about the main components of a project brief through the Proximity of Care framework.