Rise Up is Early Start Africa’s workforce enhancement program. Through the Rise Up, Early Start Africa aims at developing high quality calibre of human resource working with children directly and indirectly. This is achieved through partnership with relevant ministries to retool and equip frontline workers and where necessary, support appropriate licensing of practitioners within the sector. Workforce mentorship identifies and promotes values of anti-discrimination, anti-bias, and respect for diversity in admission of children to programs, in classrooms and other service delivery points.

Other priority capacity aspects of Early Start Africa are those that directly impact quality of programs for children such as infrastructure, mentorship of management of pre-primary centres and increasing male involvement in early care and education and access to quality water, sanitation and hygiene. We stress the need to place children and families at the centre of any early childhood service delivery