Publications

Assessing the Prevalence of Young Children Living in Households Prepared for COVID-19 in 56 Low-and Middle-Income Countries

9 January 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and governments’ attempts to contain it are negatively affecting young children’s health and development in ways we are only beginning to understand and measure. Responses to the pandemic are driven largely by …

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Recognizing Early Childhood Education as a Human Right in International Law

9 January 2023

There is incontrovertible evidence that early learning opportunities shape long-term development and health. Nevertheless, early childhood care and education (ECCE) is not expressly mentioned as part of the right to education in the Convention on …

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Parenting amid COVID-19: Challenges and Supports for Families with Young Children in South Africa

9 January 2023

National response mechanisms, including lockdown regulations and financial and food aid, have exacerbated adversity and provided support. They have also exposed existing inequalities, with individuals and families able to cope and recover to varying degrees. …

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Global Estimates of the Implications of COVID-19-Related Preprimary School Closures for Children’s Instructional Access, Development, Learning, and Economic Wellbeing

9 January 2023

Observational data collected prior to the pandemic (between 2004 and 2019) were used to simulate the potential consequences of early childhood care and education (ECCE) service closures on the estimated 167 million preprimary-age children in …

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Measuring and Forecasting Progress in Education: What about Early Childhood?

9 January 2023

A recent Nature article modelled within-country inequalities in primary, secondary, and tertiary education and forecast progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets related to education (SDG 4). However, their paper entirely overlooks inequalities in achieving …

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A Data-Free Digital Platform to Reach Families With Young Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic

9 January 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and containment measures have severely affected families around the world. It is frequently assumed that digital technologies can supplement and perhaps even replace services for families. This is challenging in conditions of …

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Data for Action on Early Childhood Development

27 July 2021

A Lancet Commentary summarizing the progress made to date in collecting global data on early childhood development

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Economic Costs of Pre-primary Program Reductions Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

27 July 2021

Hundreds of millions of children are losing learning opportunities resulting in potentially large losses in their lifetime education, health, income, and productivity.

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What the ODA Cuts Mean for Us

27 July 2021

The outcry about Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget cuts from research institutions, scientific societies, and concerned groups in the UK is heartening.

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