Investing in Early Childhood - What can be done?
So much has been written recently about the individual, economic and social benefits of investing in early childhood development (ECD), that it is becoming a challenge to summarize these studies....
View ArticleNew Reasons Why School-Based Deworming is Smart Development Policy
In the complex world of education policy, some experts comment that school-based deworming may be the closest we have come to finding a "magic bullet." In regions of the world with high worm burdens,...
View ArticleEducate to fight HIV this World AIDS Day
This content is abstracted from the HIV/AIDS and Education topic page.The positive impact of education reforms are greatly reduced by the presence of HIV/AIDS. This epidemic is damaging education...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Development: As Latin America/Caribbean Countries Invest,...
The stimuli that children are exposed to from the beginning of life to age 5 have the greatest impact on development, and they define the health, personality and intellectual capacity of each child....
View ArticleMeasuring the Economic Cost of Child Marriage
Today the U.K. government and UNICEF jointly hosted the first Girl Summit to mobilize efforts to end child, early, and forced marriage as well as female genital mutilation. According to a 2013 report...
View ArticleExtreme Poverty is More than Just Living on $1.25 a Day
“I want my children to be able to go to school. I don't want them to suffer like me.” Little by little this dream disappears as a piece of sugar, as water that runs through your hands. The long lists...
View ArticleSchool nutrition programs are the first line of defense against diabetes
Children having meals in school in Ghana. Photo: © Arne Hoel/The World Bank April 7th is World Health Day, a day to highlight emerging global health concerns. The focus this year is raising awareness...
View ArticleThe impact of Ebola on education in Sierra Leone
Also available in: EspañolWith the contribution of Kali Azzi-Huck, Anusha Ramakrishnan, and Yinan Zhang A portrait of Selina Dougas, lost her old sister, Hawa Komo to Ebola, at the Cape Community...
View ArticleGlobally, periods are causing girls to be absent from school
Also available in: Español | Francais Student at primary school in Freetown Sierra Leone. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank A UNESCO report estimates that one in ten girls in Sub-Saharan Africa...
View ArticleWhat we can learn from school feeding programs from around the world
Photo Credit: Charlotte Broyd Peel, Imperial College London, Partnership for Child Development The world is still recovering from the financial and food crises of 2008. A key response, especially in...
View ArticleSchool enrolment in Liberia is higher today than it was before the Ebola...
Post-Ebola recovery has been marked by a significant recovery and enrollment is up to the 2011 – 12 levels. (Photo credit: Katie Meyler/More Than Me) In March 2014, Liberia announced that there were...
View ArticleWorking on early childhood development in Mali
An evaluation measuring the impact of daily micronutrient supplements combined with parent education on children’s development is underway. (Photo by: Curt Carnemark / World Bank) Natalie Roschnik...
View ArticleThe power of art: A call to action on the Early Years
View a slideshow of photos by Lieve Blancquaert hereEd’s note: This guest blog is by Dirk Wouters, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to the United States of America in Washington DC A Kenyan...
View ArticleThe rippling economic impacts of child marriage
A new study finds that child marriage could cost developing countries trillions of dollars by 2030, with the largest economic cost coming from its impact on fertility and population growth. Globally,...
View ArticleGlobal Hunger? School Feeding Offers Double Dividend of Healthier Children...
Co-authored by Lesley Drake, Director of the Partnership for Child DevelopmentAs leaves crackled and autumn closed in on Washington DC at this time last year, the Brookings Institution played host for...
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