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In November last year, we took around 40 designers, engineers and other professions on an all-day walking tour of urban public space for play in East London. In this short… Read more

Over the next four years, up to 80,000 children in an estimated 150 cocoa-growing communities in the Côte d’Ivoire will get a better quality education thanks to a USD 8.5… Read more

The Financial Times today published the first part of a special report on early childhood development, with reporting funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, to coincide with the World… Read more

Congratulations to Sesame Workshop and the IRC, who have won a $100m grant from the MacArthur Foundation to scale up early childhood development for the youngest refugees in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. An incredible achievement by both… Read more

A child in the Pari district of São Paulo is almost 17 times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than one raised in the district of Pinheiros, a… Read more

The closing event of the 'Informed Families, Healthy Generations' project was widely covered in the Turkish media this week. The Mayor of Beyoğlu Municipality, Ahmet Misbah Demircan – who helped… Read more

Booking an appointment with a well baby clinic, finding out about local facilities such as childcare and public events such as storytelling, getting discounts from local shops and service providers,… Read more

Indian media are reporting on plans for a new playground in Bhubaneswar, with play equipment specifically designed for children who have special needs. An initiative of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited… Read more

A new white paper by the Open Data Institute and Oxford Insights, How dashboards can help cities improve early childhood development, explores how developing data dashboards can help city leaders… Read more

Follow a new blog written by child journalists from slum areas of Hyderabad, India. The blog was launched with the help of BvLF partner Divya Disha, which – among other… Read more