Where we’ve worked

Multiple countries, 40+ municipalities, one method

Primokiz has been used in city districts of over a hundred thousand people and in villages of under seven hundred. In municipalities with well-resourced services and in municipalities where the nearest paediatrician is nine kilometres away. In communities where half the population lives in a marginalised settlement and in communities where the biggest problem is that nobody knows what’s on offer.

A small Central European town of red-roofed houses among green hills.

The method is the same everywhere. What each community does with it is entirely its own.

Each country tab below sets out the same five things: the context, what the situation analyses found, what municipalities chose to prioritise, what changed, and what the people involved said about it.

Four countries, and more joining

The countries

  • Completed

    Romania

    Romania Grows with You

    Lead partner
    Step by Step Centre for Education and Professional Development
    Years
    2018–2022
    Municipalities
    22 entered, 21 completed

    Strategies, funding and new services across the board; 18 PrimoHubs

  • Completed

    Slovenia

    Slovenia Grows with You

    Lead partner
    Educational Research Institute — Centre for Quality in Education Step by Step
    Years
    2019–2023
    Municipalities
    8

    8 analyses, 7 strategies, coordination bodies in all 8

  • Completed

    Hungary

    Children First

    Lead partner
    Partners Hungary Foundation
    Years
    2023–2024
    Municipalities
    9 entered, 8 completed

    8 analyses, 8 strategies drafted, 3 fully adopted; new services in every municipality

  • Under way

    Slovakia

    Two small municipalities, two firsts

    Lead partner
    Škola dokorán — Wide Open School
    Years
    2023–2024
    Municipalities
    2

    First-ever municipal early childhood strategies in both

Side by side

Side by side
Measure Romania Slovenia Hungary Slovakia
Years 2018–2022 2019–2023 2023–2024 2023–2024
Duration 4 years 43 months ~1 year ~1 year
Municipalities entered 22 8 9 2
Completed 21 8 8 2
Situation analyses 21 8 8 2
Analyses adopted by council 20 8 completed, 6 confirmed approved 8 Confirmed by mayoral mandate
Strategies developed 16 7 3 completed 2
Strategies adopted by council 16 7 3 pending
Coordination body established 21 Local Action Teams (LAT) 8 LATs 8 LATs 2 LATs
New non-formal services 18 PrimoHubs Multiple Every municipality pending
External evaluation Baseline + endline Baseline + endline Internal evaluation Baseline only