Welcome to the Play Our Part (PoP) Learning through Play Resource Package!

Playful Futures (Uganda)	Let's Learn Through Play (Rwanda)	IT'S PLAY (Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia)	Design & Learning Partner	Funder

The Play Our Part (PoP) Community of Practice, funded by the LEGO Foundation, brings together three implementers innovating early childhood education (ECE) programs—Plan International, VVOB-Education for Development, and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)—alongside Innovations for Poverty Action’s (IPA) Right-Fit Evidence Unit as the learning partner. Working across Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia, we’ve spent over three years testing, adapting, and refining approaches through a shared learning agenda to strengthen Learning through Play (LtP) approaches.

Through this journey, we’ve identified what works, what challenges exist, and how to improve LtP implementation. The PoP Resource Package brings together key learnings, practical strategies, and tested tools to support implementers, educators, and LtP designers in embedding play-based learning into ECE systems in like-minded contexts worldwide.

Whether you are already implementing, funding or supporting LtP or exploring ways to incorporate it into your programming, this package offers actionable insights from real-world implementation across diverse contexts, practical guidance for designing and strengthening play-based learning, and resources for effective evidence-generating activities to support decision-making along a program’s journey to impact.

The resources in this package are:

Core guidance for designing and implementing Learning through Play programs

• Synthesis of Learning: Play Our Part findings and recommendations on LtP program design and implementation
• Getting Started with Playful Learning
• Building Play-Based Learning Capacity among Teachers

Tools and guidance for effective MEL of Learning through Play in ECE

• Early-Stage Program Learning to Improve Learning through Play Pedagogies
• Class Observation
• Pre-Post Training Tests

Strategies for engaging government stakeholders to support Learning through Play at scale

• Effective Government Engagement Strategies

We invite you to explore these resources and join us on the mission to use evidence to improve Early Childhood Education—supporting children with improved opportunities to develop essential skills in joyful, engaging, and meaningful ways.

Together, let us Play Our Part in creating vibrant, inclusive learning environments where every child has the opportunity to thrive!

Questions about the resource package or this kind of evidence initiative? Contact us at rightfit@poverty-action.org.