Early Childhood Matters 2016
The 2016 edition of Early Childhood Matters features contributions from UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake; WHO Assistant Director General Flavia Bustreo; Alice Albright and colleagues at the Global Partnership for Education; and Susan L. Bissell of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children. Other articles address issues from measuring child development at population level to scaling up the early childhood workforce and the use of innovative finance mechanisms. There are looks at early childhood initiatives in countries such as South Africa, Uruguay, Liberia and the Republic of Georgia.
Articles
Gaining momentum: advancing early childhood development 2016
On 25 September 2015, countries around the world adopted a set of goals to end… Read more
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Applying the science - How what we are learning about brain development should shape policies, practical action, and public advocacy
Science is redefining how we think about brain development during early childhood. Now it must… Read more
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Early child development and the global strategy for women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ health
Early childhood development is crucial to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Target 4.2 of Goal… Read more
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The global partnership for Education 2016–2020: enhancing early childhood care and education
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has developed a new Strategic Plan 2016–2020 which provides… Read more
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Ending violence against children and the new global partnership – a compelling platform for action
Many of the Sustainable Development Goals are relevant to the aim of ending violence against… Read more
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Measuring development in children from birth to age 3 at population level
As early childhood development (ECD) is identified as an important target of the global development… Read more
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Monitoring the development of all children: the Early development instrument
Developmental health at school entry is strongly associated with children’s future school achievement and well-being. Read more
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The Early Childhood workforce – a powerful force for scaling-up quality services for young children and their families
With growing interest in how to improve and scale-up systems that deliver services to families… Read more
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A call for public financing: innovative finance is welcome, but not enough
Early childhood development, especially for the poor and disadvantaged, should be financed from public revenues,… Read more
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Impact bonds and their potential for use in early childhood interventions
Impact bonds have emerged as one of the most talked-about new tools to increase the… Read more
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Side by side with responsive parents in the Care for Child development intervention
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF intervention on Care for Child Development (CCD) helps… Read more
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Women’s work: Mothers, children and the global childcare crisis, a summary
The world is facing a hidden crisis in childcare. It is leaving millions of children… Read more
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Scaling-up early childhood centres for migrant construction workers’ children in india
As India rapidly urbanises, more and more parents are migrating from villages to live and… Read more
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The Early Years: Child wellbeing and the role of public policy (2015)
Children are the future of Latin America and the Caribbean, and how they are raised… Read more
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The Transatlantic Forum on inclusive Early Years: a dialogue on high-quality ECEC for all
Researchers continue to find overwhelming evidence of the beneficial effects of high-quality early childhood care… Read more
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More needs to be done to reap multiple benefits of monitoring quality
Rising investments in early childhood education and care (ECEC) have made it increasingly important to… Read more
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Providing education opportunities for Syria’s youngest refugees
Hundreds of thousands of young children have had their education interrupted by the ongoing civil… Read more
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Quality rating and improvement systems: what they are and why they matter
The BUILD Initiative was established by the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative in 2002 with a… Read more
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Transforming early learning through social innovation
What do blockchain technology, savings groups, social impact bonds, smartphone apps and supermarket signage have… Read more
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Supporting the development of all children: towards a national early childhood intervention system in the republic of Georgia
In the last decade, the Republic of Georgia has made major progress in developing a… Read more
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Building an early childhood development system from scratch: the Liberian experience
Despite facing major human development challenges, Liberia has made encouraging progress in recent years towards… Read more
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Uruguay’s programa de acompañamiento familiar
Since starting in September 2012, the acompañamiento familiar (‘family accompaniment’) programme of ‘Uruguay Crece Contigo’… Read more
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The Lancet Breastfeeding series
Despite many of the benefits of breastfeeding having been clearly established for years, rates of… Read more
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What we can learn from the Cuban Early Childhood development system
Cuba has made a strong commitment to holistic early childhood development (ECD), setting up a… Read more
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Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood documentation of early childhood development noteworthy practices
The Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) documents ‘noteworthy practices’ to help build a… Read more
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Publication details
- Date: June 23, 2016
- Author: Various
- Early Childhood Matters
- Issue: 125
- Pages: 115