Knowledge by, for and about newcomers

Knowledge by, for and about newcomers

Monitoring and evaluation Himilo Foundation

Client

Municipality of Amsterdam

Duration

2023-2025

Partners

ITTA UvA

Product

Reports Measurements, Expert Pool, Learning and Design Session

Project description

As of September 2023, we are working with ITTA UvA on a monitoring and evaluation study of the Himilo Foundation's approach to "Family support for language development in low literacy and poverty." We are doing this on behalf of the Municipality of Amsterdam.

Family support low literacy and poverty

In this study, we will monitor Himilo Foundation's approach for two years and evaluate it at three points in time. With the aim of answering the main question: is the approach of the project "Family Support for Low Literacy and Poverty' effective and transferable?"

Learning research

ITTA and OpenEmbassy set up the monitoring and evaluation as "learning research." This means that we are already sharing any learning points with Himilo in the interim. In this way, the approach can be further developed and strengthened as we go along.

Results & insights

In deze gezinsaanpak werken ouders en kinderen tegelijkertijd aan taalontwikkeling. De evaluatie laat zien dat een aantal elementen hierbij cruciaal is:

• Nederlands leren met inzet van de thuistaal (Somalisch of Arabisch) als steuntaal
• Parallelle ondersteuning van ouders en kinderen: ouders werken aan hun taalvaardigheid terwijl kinderen extra onderwijs krijgen
• Brugfunctionarissen die ouders begeleiden in het contact met school
• Themabijeenkomsten waarin ouders leren hoe zij thuis taalontwikkeling kunnen stimuleren
• Een community-aanpak waarin ouders elkaar ontmoeten, ondersteunen en samen leren

De aanpak draagt niet alleen bij aan taalontwikkeling, maar ook aan meer zelfvertrouwen, zelfstandigheid en sterker contact tussen ouders, kinderen en school.

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This project was supervised by:

project manager

Sandrine Lafay

Head of research

They also participated in this project

Fatih Aktas

Researcher, Survey Panel

Josja Sanderink

Project Manager

Naya Aljoudi

Action researcher, community manager

Mahad Hussein

Action researcher, community manager

Liv Kaya Aabye - the Hope

All-round consultant

Jolien de Vries

Action Researcher