Early Childhood Matters 2018

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Editorial

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Towards nurturing care: advancing early childhood development in 2018

Joan Lombardi

Leadership

Bold leadership – or as we see it, the ability to mobilise people to solve important problems collectively – is crucial to achieving results for young children. In this section, leaders from governments, international organisations and funders around the world talk about why they have chosen to put babies, toddlers and the people who care for them high on their agenda.

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Violence prevention must start in early childhood

Marta Santos Pais

Changing the humanitarian system for young children living in conflict and crisis

David W. Miliband, Sarah Smith and Katie Murphy

Placing nurturing care at the centre of global initiatives to improve child health and development

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

‘De Cero a Siempre’, a commitment to our children’s early years

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón

Scaling

There are many pathways to scale – taking a successful small programme, and making it work for hundreds of thousands of children – but the challenges are complex. In this section, practitioners and policymakers explore issues such as coordinating across different parts of government, financing, recruiting and training large numbers of workers, testing and learning, and putting systems in place that deliver consistent, cost-effective quality.

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Building country ownership and investments through the Global Partnership for Education

Christin McConnell

Policy lessons for strengthening and supporting the early childhood workforce

Michelle Neuman and Mark Roland

Learning from Saving Brains: informing policies and scale-up for early childhood

Kate Milner, Pia Britto, Tarun Dua and Joy E. Lawn

Every Woman Every Child: investing in the early years for sustainable development

Nana Taona Kuo

Latin America and the potential of the Nurturing Care Framework as a platform for scale

Leonardo Yánez and Cecilia Vaca Jones

Reaching the youngest children: an approach for health system integration

Katelin Gray, Matthew Frey and Debjeet Sen

Parenting for happiness: blending child well-being and Gross National Happiness

Karma Gayleg

‘Criança Feliz’: A programme to break the cycle of poverty and reduce the inequality in Brazil

Halim Antonio Girade

Innovations

Before good practices can be taken to scale, we first need good ideas. In this section, we focus on innovations – new or emerging programmes, policies or services which have the potential to meet the needs of young children and their caregivers in a wider range of contexts.

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It takes a city: making early childhood a strategic priority in Tel Aviv

Daniella Ben-Attar

Urban95: creating cities for the youngest people

Patrin Watanatada

A Better Start: tackling inequity through community-wide action on early childhood development

Chris Cuthbert

Using technology to train health workers to treat maternal depression at scale: a new model from Pakistan

Shamsa Zafar

Training caregivers to transform children’s lives

Erica Salomone, Brian Reichow, Laura Pacione, Stephanie Shire, Andy Shih and Chiara Servili

Supporting refugee, internally displaced and marginalised host community parents in the Arab region

Ghassan Issa, Lara Aoudeh, Cosette Maalouf and Youssef Hajjar

Lifelong impact of nutrition in the first thousand days after conception

Jaap Seidell and Jutka Halberstadt

Short takes on current issues

In this section, we present brief summaries of initiatives, publications or other resources which have come to our attention in the past year and which we believe deserve a wider audience.

Issue details

The views expressed in Early Childhood Matters are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Van Leer Foundation. Work featured is not necessarily funded by the Van Leer Foundation.

Reproduction of articles by photocopying or electronic means for non-commercial purposes is permitted. However, it is requested that the author, Early Childhood Matters and Bernard van Leer Foundation are cited as the source of the information. Permission must be obtained to use photos. ISSN 1387-9553

Cover: Peruvian woman with her toddler. The Sacred Valley, Cuzco, Peru.

Photo: Hadynyah/E+/Getty Images

This 2018 issue of Early Childhood Matters is no. 127 in the series.

Also published in Spanish: Espacio para la Infancia (ISSN 1566-6476)

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Guest editor

Joan Lombardi

Current-Principal Advisor and Adjunct Professor, Stanford Center on Early Childhood, Guest Editor from 2015-2019, Early Childhood Matters

Production editor

Teresa Moreno

Consultant editor

Andrew Wright

Text editing

Margaret Mellor

Graphic design

Laura de Jongh

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