The objective of this activity was to develop the capacity of service providers who are directly involved in pre-school program (teachers and supervisors) in different NGO's on quality early childhood care and education. After the training, the trainees would be able to  Explain the process of child development, Identify the ways of how children learn, Recognize play as main way of children's learning, Explain developmentally appropriate pre-school program, Arrange child-friendly environment in pre-school centers, Play and do different activities with children, Manage children maintaining positive ways of disciplining children, Identify the importance of story telling and Adapt different ways of story telling including the traditional way. 80 service providers and teacher trainers were trained in 4 batches in 2005.