In their piece titled ‘Holistic development and assessment in early childhood education,’ Umamaheswara Rao Jaggena and Kinnari Pandya discuss the Early Learner Assessment (ELA) tool developed by Azim Premji Foundation (APF) in the context of its ECE interventions, that allows for integrating learnings from assessment at the levels of both the children and the program for enhancing quality of learning.