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Examples include: Senegal: The Senegal Investing in the Early Years for Human Development Project is a multisectoral project that will reach 2.5 million children and their parents through integrated community-based nutrition, early stimulation and parenting education programs; enroll more than 210,000 children into formal preschools, Koranic preschools and community-based early learning ...
The Toolkit provides a practical, “how-to” guide for selection and adaptation of child development measurements for use in low- and middle-income countries. Users can follow the proposed step-by-step process to select, adapt, implement, and analyze early childhood development data for diverse purposes and projects. Researchers, evaluators ...
Investing in the early years helps to break the cycle of poverty, address inequality, and boost productivity. Despite the central importance of the early years, children today face a human capital crisis. The World Bank’s Human Capital Index estimates that globally, a child born today would only reach 56% of their full adult productivity due ...
AIM-ECD includes two free tools of early childhood development that measure early literacy, early numeracy, executive functioning, and social-emotional development of children between the ages of 4 and 6: Child Direct Assessment (DA). Along with the Teach ECE resources to measure the quality of early childhood education (ECE), AIM-ECD is part ...
The Early Learning Partnership (ELP) is a multi-donor trust fund, housed at the World Bank. ELP leverages World Bank strengths—a global presence, access to policymakers and strong technical analysis—to improve early learning opportunities and outcomes for young children around the world. ELP is associated with the World Bank’s ...
Evaluation: Proper infant and early childhood development is critical to give children a healthy start to life. The challenge is especially profound in sub-Saharan Africa, where millions of young children are at risk of cognitive and physical delays because of poverty, poor nutrition and lack of stimulation.
Investments in early childhood development (ECD) are thus critical. They are known to positively impact school attendance, retention, learning and lifetime earnings. Recognizing the relevance of strengthening their investments in ECD, India in 2012 restructured their Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program framework to focus more ...
MAJURO, April 23, 2019 – Today the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the World Bank launched a US$13 million Multisectoral Early Childhood Development Project in Majuro. The project will support areas such as reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition services, with a focus on the first 1,000 days of ...
Systems that deliver quality early learning at scale are built intentionally and progressively over time through careful planning and multiple investments, including in the home environment and in other factors that influence early learning outside of school, especially for the most disadvantaged children. Saavedra concluded, “The task is ...
To develop to their full potential, children need nurturing care – the conditions that promote health, nutrition, security and safety, responsive caregiving and opportunities for early learning. “The period from pregnancy to age 3 is key for a child’s development. That’s when the brain grows fastest,” said WHO Director-General Dr ...