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                                                                   ABSTRACT

This study examined the impact of international organizations in the development of early childhood education programmes in River South East Senatorial District. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. Two hundred and eighty-nine (289) teachers in 189 Early Childhood Centres within the study area were purposively sampled. Three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated. The instrument for data collection was titled: “Impact of International Organization in Development of Early Childhood Education Programmes Questionnaire (IIODECEPQ)”. The reliability index of the instrument was 0.75. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer each research question. The independent sample t-test was used to test the three hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings from hypotheses one and two revealed non-significant difference in the impact of the International organizations in the curriculum development and the provision of instructional materials in the development of early childhood education programmes in urban and rural areas of the district, depicting that these impacts were equally across the district. Hypotheses three revealed significant difference in the provision of infrastructural materials in the development of early childhood education programmes in the areas. Based on these findings, it was recommended that the distribution of infrastructural facilities from these organizations should be equitably distributed across the urban and rural areas of the district. The organizations should also increase their impacts and the indigenous Government agencies should endeavor to pay their counterpart funds to attract these organizations participate in these activities across the Senatorial District.

KEYWORDS: International organizations, Development, Early childhood Education Programmes, River South East Senatorial District.