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Giving countries the evidence to invest in early childhood development at scale. Focus countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kiribati, Sierra Leone and Tanzania
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#whattoread A detailed narrative of an emerging scaling success: The Early Journey of Life (EJOL) programme in Vietnam. It supports parents through community centre-based group sessions during the first 1,000 days of children’s lives. link.springer.com/article/10.100… Munk School
#whattoread A success story from Mozambique where research by Bassi et al. evaluated the effectiveness of an at-scale preschool construction programme for ages 3 to 5 in rural Mozambique: bit.ly/4cUQlUR Marina Bassi Lelys Dinarte-Diaz World Bank Research Saravana Ravindran
Do government subsidies for early learning service providers in South Africa improve access & quality? A new paper by @KikaMistry and Wills uses the Dep. Basic Education 2021 ECD Census and 2021 Thrive by Five survey to explore this trade-off bit.ly/3WCI4yU
How do community health workers in large areas decide who to visit? Research from Owoputi et al. Nutritional Sciences at Cornell provides a rare glimpse of community health worker coverage and targeting factors in the context of the ASTUTE health and nutrition programme bit.ly/3YgJS1N
How can community health worker capacity be strengthened to deliver quality child services at scale? Ekpin et al. found that successful interventions rely on many factors including ongoing training and supervision bit.ly/3zfAEc9 Henry Eziefule Nwankwo University of Uyo
A new handbook edited by Durning, Baker and Ramchandani, published by Routledge Books has recently been released. Topics of ‘Empowering Play in Primary Education’ include inclusive practices of play and the pedagogy of play bit.ly/4grkIUL Aimee Durning MBE Paul Ramchandani