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Supporting Family and Community Investments in Young Children Globally - Workshop in Brief
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... In addressing the specific circumstances of acute disruptions, workshop participants discussed lessons learned from examples across natural disasters, human-induced disasters, and outbreaks and suggested targeted areas for policy action aimed at strengthening investments and minimizing the negative impacts of acute disruptions on the health and well-being of children in the future. This brief summary of the presentations and discussions at the workshop highlights the major issues raised by individual workshop participants, including suggestions for future discussion and action.
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... The workshop topics were designed to highlight financing models and policies for supporting family and community investments; provide perspectives from programs; bring in voices from the ground; explore the specific situation of making investments in families and communities during and after acute disruptions; and lay out aspirations expressed by workshop speakers to further connect the financing and policies back to impacts for young children and their caregivers across the globe. With 75 percent of workshop speakers coming from sub-Saharan Africa, the workshop provided the space to highlight regional issues and hear from those working in the region.
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... Bill Guyton, President of the World Cocoa Foundation, introduced the supply side of cocoa and the complexity surrounding production, which includes the nexus of poverty and children. CocoaAction is a platform by which all partnering entities have agreed to a common method of measuring success meant to better align cocoa production and community development issues such as primary education, child labor prevention, and women's empowerment for, ultimately, a greater impact.
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... According to Heymann, such comparative policy tools help countries see how their peers are performing, linked to specific health, education, nutrition, and social protection outcomes. Quentin Wodon, Lead Economist with the Education Global Practice at the World Bank, presented the economic impacts and costs of child marriage, which he stated is a multisectoral issue, much like early childhood development, that affects young children.
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... Coutinho did stress the important role survivors -- and particularly children -- continue to play in the Ebola-impacted communities of West Africa. Janna Patterson, Senior Program Officer at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, stressed that the examination of acute disruptions from multiple perspectives provides dimension to the human complexities that may not be evident 5
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... Janice Cooper, Country Lead of the Liberia Mental Health Initiative at the Carter Center, provided her perspective on service delivery after the recent Ebola outbreak, particularly around mental health and disabilities, where in Liberia there are few trained mental health providers. Cooper laid the foundation for the Ebola outbreak by presenting some of the challenges surrounding systems that supported young children in Liberia prior to the outbreak.
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... Kuku aspires for all African governments to have viable and comprehensive early childhood development policies. The aspiration of the Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally is to assist decision makers around the world to use the best science and evidence for investing to optimize the well-being of children and their lifelong potential.
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... Programme, Kilifi, Kenya Mark Miller Division of International and Population Lola Adedokun Studies, Fogarty International Center African Health Initiative, This workshop was jointly hosted with the Ethiopian Academy of Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helia Molina Milman Past Minister of Health, Chile Sciences. Constanza Alarcón Intersectoral Commission for Early Ariel Pablos-Mendez Childhood, Presidency of the Republic, USAID Colombia Janna Patterson SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by Accordia Raquel Bernal The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Center for Research on Economic De- Alan Pence Global Health Foundation; Autism Speaks; the Bernard van Leer velopment, Universidad de los Andes School of Child and Youth Care, Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Doris Duke Pia Rebello Britto University of Victoria Early Childhood Development Unit, Ruth Perou Charitable Foundation; the Fraser Mustard Institute for Human UNICEF Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Development; Grand Challenges Canada; HighScope Educational Helena Choi Global Development and Population Cheryl Polk Research Foundation; the Inter-American Development Bank; Program, The William and Flora Hewlett HighScope Educational Research Foundation Foundation the Jacobs Foundation; Lumos; the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Pamela Y


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