Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi

Programme Overview

Early childhood development demands an integrated, cross-sectoral operational model linking healthcare, public education, and social protection systems.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ This four-day executive training programme in Tbilisi equips public sector professionals with practical competencies to plan, deliver, and regulate foundational services for young children. Focusing on systemic alignment, participants examine evidence-based child development protocols, community nursery standards, and administrative procedures necessary to translate national policies into functional municipal and regional service delivery points.

The curriculum addresses the practical complexities of commissioning new early childhood development facilities alongside existing infrastructure. Delegates evaluate multi-sectoral service packages that combine pediatric growth screening, preventative nutrition interventions, and age-appropriate early learning methodologies. Through interactive case studies, attendees interrogate technical design guidelines, operational licencing requirements, and workforce deployment plans. The modules emphasize measurable service indicators that conform to international standards, ensuring public investments yield sustained developmental benefits for vulnerable young populations.

Delivered through a structured operational lens, this course bridges the policy-implementation gap for donor-funded projects and national line ministries. Participants develop facility commissioning protocols, dynamic quality assurance instruments, and cross-sectoral referral pathways. By benchmarking standard operating procedures against established global practices, officials acquire the technical capability to lead facility handovers, monitor operational readiness, and enforce regulatory compliance across both community nurseries and integrated early childhood centres.

Public institutions in Central Asia are increasingly prioritizing early childhood development as a core pillar of national human capital formation.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Major initiatives, such as the Early Childhood Development to Build Tajikistan's Human Capital Project, demand close coordination between education, health, and local administrative authorities. Public agencies require immediate programmatic and operational tools to commission modern facilities, establish integrated health and early stimulation practices, and build robust quality assurance mechanisms across dispersed rural and municipal jurisdictions.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Tbilisi, Georgia, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Analysis of multi-sectoral frameworks: Integrating health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, and early learning
• Operational structures of the Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development
• Inter-ministerial coordination models: Aligning Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health responsibilities
• Standardized growth monitoring, micronutrient interventions, and early pediatric health screening
• Mapping community-level vulnerabilities and defining minimum service delivery packages
• Physical infrastructure parameters: Spatial planning, accessibility, WASH, and community nursery layout norms
• Facility commissioning lifecycles: From construction handover to initial operational licencing
• Procurement, validation, and safe installation of age-appropriate learning and play equipment
• Fraud risk assessment and fraud risk registers
• Design and testing of internal controls
• The Three Lines model and the role of oversight
• Audit planning, evidence and documentation

It is designed for programme officers from national Ministries of Education overseeing pre-primary education, technical specialists from Ministries of Health leading maternal and child health portfolios, municipal and district social service directors responsible for early childhood programmes and others who want practical, current skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

The Growing Importance of Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi

Public bodies and donor-financed projects are expected to show that funds are used for their intended purpose. Auditors, oversight bodies and financiers increasingly look beyond the financial statements to the controls, records and behaviours behind them.

Fraud and control weaknesses rarely come from one failure. They grow where roles are unclear, records are incomplete and warning signs are not followed up. Teams that understand how fraud happens, and how controls stop it, protect both their institution and the people it serves.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design controls that are proportionate and testable
• Gather and document reliable audit evidence
• Recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly
• Turn findings into practical, agreed actions

Strong fraud, audit and internal control systems help organisations:

• Reduce losses and ineligible expenditure
• Pass external audits with fewer findings
• Strengthen trust with financiers and citizens
• Respond to allegations in a fair and documented way

This Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Programme officers from national Ministries of Education overseeing pre-primary education
• Technical specialists from Ministries of Health leading maternal and child health portfolios
• Municipal and district social service directors responsible for early childhood programmes
• Project Implementation Unit (PIU) directors executing donor-funded human capital initiatives
• Infrastructure and commissioning engineers managing early childhood educational facilities
• Pediatric health coordinators managing community-level nutrition and screening schemes
• Pre-service and in-service early childhood educator training coordinators
• Monitoring and evaluation officers tracking multisectoral child development indicators
• Public procurement and regulatory specialists responsible for facility licencing and accreditation
• Internal auditors and audit managers
• Finance managers and accountants
• Compliance and risk officers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Training, participants will be able to:

• Assess multisectoral early childhood intervention strategies linking pediatric health, nutrition, and early learning
• Apply technical standards and architectural briefs for commissioning safe, inclusive community early childhood facilities
• Design cross-sectoral referral pathways between primary health care centres, community nurseries, and social services
• Evaluate early learning curricula using established child development milestones and developmental assessment tools
• Develop comprehensive quality assurance inspection checklists for newly operational public early childhood centres
• Formulate operational risk management protocols covering facility handover, child safeguarding, and hygiene standards
• Establish institutional monitoring matrices aligned with World Bank, ADB, and UN project reporting requirements
• Explain how and why fraud happens, using recognised fraud risk models
• Carry out a fraud and control risk assessment for a real process
• Map controls to risks using the Three Lines model

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Training Methodology

The training applies adult-learning methodologies targeted at public sector executives and project implementation professionals.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Instruction combines technical lectures, peer review of national case materials, and hands-on simulation exercises. Working in inter-ministerial syndicates, delegates interrogate architectural specifications, run readiness diagnostics on model early learning centres, and audit pediatric screening mechanisms. Facilitated discussions guide participants to draft concrete operational documents that resolve implementation bottlenecks in their specific institutional contexts.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Training, participants will be able to:

• Direct mastery of integrated operational frameworks combining early education, maternal-child health, and child protection
• Competency to execute standard operating procedures for the handover and commissioning of public early childhood facilities
• Ability to conduct technical quality reviews of pre-primary pedagogical materials and learning environments
• Proficiency in developing cross-sectoral screening, referral, and intervention pathways for vulnerable children
• Capacity to lead institutional compliance inspections using objective quality assurance tools and regulatory metrics
• Delivery of a personalized facility commissioning checklist ready for deployment in national or donor-financed projects
• Assess fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design and test proportionate controls

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Fraud and corruption risk management
• Internal control frameworks
• Audit and oversight arrangements
• Follow-up of audit findings
• Integrity and reporting channels

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk registers and control maps
• Audit planning and testing
• Evidence and documentation
• Reporting to management and boards
• Prevention of ineligible expenditure

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply fraud, audit and internal control within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in fraud, audit and internal control increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on fraud, audit and internal control. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to fraud, audit and internal control that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Tbilisi, Georgia brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how fraud, audit and internal control is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Georgia

Programmes, Workshops, Exposures, Training Courses in Tbilisi, Georgia by Risalat Consultants International

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Readiness Assessment
• Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi Training Manual
• Fraud Risk Register Template
• Control Mapping Matrix
• Audit Evidence Checklist
• Findings and Follow-up Tracker
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Fraud Risk Self-Assessment Guide
• Control Testing Checklist
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Cross-Sectoral Foundations and Integrated Policy Protocols), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design controls that are proportionate and testable?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Facility Commissioning, Design Standards, and Environmental Safety), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions gather and document reliable audit evidence?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Early Learning Curricula Evaluation and Workforce Deployment), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Quality Assurance Systems, Monitoring, and Institutional Governance), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions turn findings into practical, agreed actions?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Cross-Sectoral Foundations and Integrated Policy Protocols), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Early Childhood Development Interventions and Facility Commissioning in Tbilisi programme take place?

It runs from 9 Aug 2027 to 12 Aug 2027, in Tbilisi, Georgia. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for programme officers from national Ministries of Education overseeing pre-primary education, technical specialists from Ministries of Health leading maternal and child health portfolios, municipal and district social service directors responsible for early childhood programmes, project Implementation Unit (PIU) directors executing donor-funded human capital initiatives, and others who want practical skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in fraud, audit and internal control?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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