Play Based Learning in the Global South: A Chat with BRAC

CEGA and the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies hosted BRAC for a lunch seminar on the Play Lab project, an evidence-based, playful learning intervention for young children low resource settings. BRAC’s Executive Director, Dr. Muhammad Musa and BRAC USA’s Education Director, Devon McLorg, co-presented on effective approaches to early childhood development in the context of a larger strategy for poverty eradication.

In her presentation, McLorg described how the Play Lab project is being implemented in Bangladesh, Tanzania, and Uganda and how they are engaging with governments, local communities, and implementers to promote evidence-based policy making and playful learning for children ages 3-5 in these countries. For example, in Bangladesh, BRAC has scaled the program to over 1,000 Early Childhood Development Centers. In Tanzania, BRAC is working with the government to incorporate the play labs into the national early childhood development policy and curriculum.