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Adaro Foundation has conducted Early Childhood Education (ECE) Quality Enhancement Program from 2017 – 2018 in the operational area of Adaro Group (South and Central Kalimantan) with focus on Character-Based Holistic Education (CBHE). The Program involved 63 ECE schools selected from 128 ones assessed with tight parameter by Adaro Foundation together with its partner, Indonesia Heritage Foundation (IHF). The program is implemented by IHF for 3 years under Adaro Foundation-s supervision. At least 2 teachers from selected ECE schools were trained intensively to understand and be ready to implement CBHE. The teachers- performance change were measured using 14 indicators divided into 5 levels of ECE management performance improvement category. Monitoring result shows that even though almost all program outputs have been delivered in the forms of teachers capacity building (100%), learning facility support (75%), and facilitating ECE community (100%), 28,57% teachers were not able to understand CBHE concept and how to teach it. The inefficiency of this program was also contributed by parents- and elementary school teachers- opinion that ECE students should be able to read, write, and count (14,29%), internal conflicts (6,35%), lack of learning facilities (6,35%), the influence of local community and culture (6,35%), the trained teachers quit or were moved (4,76%), and teachers- expectation for incentive (3,17%). There were 78% ECE schools which successfully raised to level 5, 17% to level 4, while only 5% raised to level 3. By using the tight monitoring system with measured parameter and indicator, Adaro Foundation could evaluate the program from the previous year and formulate improvement steps which focused on each ECE schools.