Number of caregivers who are responsive to children's needs and who are employed by the organization as of the end of the reporting period.
Organizations should footnote details about the types of caregivers employed and how the organization measures responsiveness. See usage guidance for further information.
This metric is intended to capture the number of individuals who provide responsive early childhood care to children in preschools, daycare, or other settings. Examples of caregivers include preschool teachers and parents. Responsive care is the process of watching and tuning into a child’s cues, thinking about what they might mean, and then sensitively responding to those cues; for more, see Zero to Three (https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/212-responsive-care). Caregivers need not necessarily be certified or licensed.
To assess responsiveness, organizations may use tools such as the Infant Toddler Responsive Caregiver Checklist (ITRCC) or the Healthy Families Parenting Inventory (HFPI).
This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact. It may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.
This is a submetric of Caregivers Employed: Total (OI5323), which has 1 other related submetrics.
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
Immaterial change. Minor revisions to definition and usage guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released
New metric. Caregivers Employed: Responsible (OI3115) was developed via the IRIS+ Education Expert Subgroup.
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