The project Strengthening the capacities of the Step by Step Programme organisation as a promoter of child-centred education builds on the three previous phases of the project A Good Start in Life for Rural Children in Moldova. In the first phase, the Step by Step Education Programme (PEPP) provided technical assistance (seminars and mentoring activities) to 65 newly created pre-school institutions and Community Centres (by MoE through international grants), as well as to 33 district kindergartens where resource centres were created, guiding the staff of these institutions to approach quality child-centred education (building on the PEPP experience since 1994); in the second phase, further supporting the professional development of teachers and managers in 38 pre-school institutions, the project focused on new issues, promoting a systemic approach to change, based on the principles of child/learner-centred education as a basis for expressing quality: Ensuring continuity of quality educational practices and facilitating children’s transition from kindergarten to school (30 schools – primary institutions, gymnasiums, high schools), as well as linking pedagogical practices at the preschool and primary levels based on the holistic approach to child development. For a greater impact of the changes in the system, in supporting the early education sector, it was seen necessary that the initial training of the DCs should keep pace with these changes, and the Step by Step Programme, as a member of ISSA, had to contribute to this modernization through the comprehensive package of materials as an expression of quality in the child-centred education formula, linking theory and practice. Supporting the process of modernisation of teacher training in initial training institutions (4 universities and 3 pedagogical colleges), building on the many years of experience of practitioners in the Programme and the ISSA resource materials in promoting quality. In the third phase, the project continued the training of the team of national experts – promoters of child-centred education – practitioners, trainers, mentors – who apply and promote the principles of learner-centred education. To amplify changes in the system, the project supported the organisation of new ways of professional development in the workplace and the improvement of initial teacher training provision.