Improving young children's learning in economically developing countries - Interactive Gap Map

This Gap Map is an output from the Improving young children’s learning in economically developing countries: What works, why, and where? Scoping review It shows a rich and diverse evidence base, and includes 109 interventions that support learning for young children in economically developing countries. Studies included cover interventions between 1998 and 2017 that actively sought to improve children’s learning before the commencement of formal schooling.

The gap map provides information about types of interventions, the location of the studies, and the DFAT region where the interventions took place, as well as results of analyses on the availability of evidence by the range of publication years and distribution of interventions by the age group targeted. The size of the circles varies by the magnitude of evidence available on each criteria.

By hovering or clicking on the circles readers can find out more information about the interventions, such as the key publication details, along with links to the included studies (where available).