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1 Introduction and Overview
1 Introduction and Overview
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The result is a rich arena for policy analysis and change and a complex challenge for public- and private-sector organizations that are seeking to improve the lives of children. To examine the science and policy issues involved in coordinating investments in children and their caregivers, the Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally held a workshop in Hong Kong on March 14–15, 2015, titled "Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Invest 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop.
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In his introductory remarks at the forum, the founding master of Wu Yee Sun College, 2 Forum activities highlight the science and economics of integrated investments in young children living in low-resourced regions of the world across the areas of health, nutrition, education, and social protection. Moreover, given that caregivers of young children are key to children's access to health, education, nutrition, and social protection, the forum takes a life course approach and addresses issues related to reproductive health, economic opportunity, and access to quality child care and education programs for caregivers.
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This creates a complicated policy challenge for governments in supporting the multiple domains of early childhood development, said Hiro Yoshikawa, Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University. Typically, the services associated with these domains of development have their own disciplinary perspectives, their own organizational and institutional structures, and often their own ministries within government.
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Over the course of the workshop, workshop participants called attention to several prominent topics that arose in the presentations and discussions. These topics, which have been identified by the rapporteur based on the remarks of workshop participants, are listed here not as the conclusions of the workshop or of the sponsoring organizations, but as an introduction to the variety of issues covered at the workshop: • Coordination and integration of early childhood development programs can create both benefits and risks.
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Chapter 4 examines governance, finance, and accountability issues that can facilitate or impede coordinated or integrated services for children and their caregivers at the national, subnational, or local levels. Chapter 5 looks at examples of how existing platforms can be used to set up, implement, and scale integrated or coordinated services.
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