This regional study provides an overview of 17 targeted Asian countries' legislative responses to online child abuse and exploitation, with a particular focus on activities related to child pornography (also known as "child abuse images"), online grooming, and cyberbullying.
... Vea más + This regional study pays special attention to: 1) analyzing legislative measures to address violence against children committed by, with, and through the use of Information and communication technologies (ICTs) in alignment with relevant international instruments; 2) presenting examples of good practice in a legal enabling environment for child online protection at a national level in compliance with relevant international standards; and 3) highlighting recommendations for strengthening the national legal framework to handle ICT-facilitated child abuse and exploitation amongst the 17 Asian countries analyzed. ICTs have rapidly developed over the last two decades. Recent rapid advances in ICTs have allowed adults, as well as children, to enjoy unprecedented opportunities and benefits in terms of socialization, education, and entertainment. In particular, the development of ICTs has provided children and adolescents using the Internet and associated technologies with new spaces to interact and form social relationships with others, such as chat rooms, peer-to-peer (P2P) websites, and social networking sites. This regional study is based on information on domestic law, regulation, and policy available in English online, offline, or both based on information collected from research conducted, verified, and updated between April 2013 and January 2015.
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The World Bank is actively supporting early childhood development based on demand from governments and convincing evidence on the benefits of investing early for children, families, and society.
... Vea más + This portfolio review provides an overview of Bank investments in early childhood development (ECD) from 2001 to 2013 within the three global practices of education (ED), health, nutrition, and population (HNP), and social protection and labor (SP).1 In this report, we will consider the three global practices together as the Human Development (HD) portfolio of the World Bank. The report summarizes trends in operational and analytical investments in early childhood, including lending and trust-funded operations at the country, regional, and global levels. We present findings on the overall level of finance during this 13-year period, the number of ECD investments, and regional and sectoral trends. A series of case studies are presented to highlight lessons learned to inform future Bank support to ECD and to promote better planning across sectors and regions. We then present trends in analytical and advisory activities, including economic sector work, technical assistance, partnership activities, impact evaluations, programmatic approaches, and knowledge products. Finally, the paper discusses recent new approaches to support ECD within the World Bank and in client countries
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This report presents an analysis of the early childhood development (ECD) programs and policies which affect young children in Tuvalu and recommendations to move forward.
... Vea más + It is part of a series of reports prepared by the World Bank using the systems approach for better education results (SABER)-ECD framework and includes analysis of early learning, health, nutrition, and social and child protection policies and interventions in Tuvalu, along with some regional and international comparisons.
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Increasing recognition that investments in early childhood development (ECD) are essential for children to reach their full potential has led development agencies, including the World Bank, to place a higher priority on young children in their partnership with countries.
... Vea más + A recent review of the World Banks experience in ECD suggests rapidly increasing commitments and provides selected lessons from operations and documents promising new initiatives (Sayre et al., 2014). The review considered ECD activities for the period June 2000 to July 2013 within the Education (ED), Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP), and Social Protection and Labor (SP) Global Practices. This brief summarizes key findings and messages from the review.
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Investing in young children is one of the best investments that countries can make. A childs earliest years present a unique window of opportunity to address inequality, break the cycle of poverty, and improve a wide range of outcomes later in life.
... Vea más + A growing body of literature demonstrates that the returns on investments in young children are substantial, particularly when compared to investments made at later stages in life. Yet while there is an emerging consensus that investments in early childhood development (ECD) should be a priority and can have high returns, countries continue to fall short in their investments in ECD. This is due in part to budget constraints, but also to the fact that ECD is complex and multi-sectoral. There is still lack of awareness of how countries can design successful policies and scalable programs in this area. This note, which is based on Denboba et al. (2014), provides an accessible introduction to key interventions and broader principles that can help policy makers and practitioners think about how to effectively invest in ECD.
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Among the various investments in human capital that countries can make, those related to early childhood development (ECD) may have the largest returns later in life.
... Vea más + The rate of return on investments in ECD depends on a number of factors, including the focus, length, and quality of an ECD program. But these rates of return have been shown to be as high as 17:1 (Heckman, 2008). By one estimate, increasing preschool enrollment to 50 percent in low- and middle-income countries could result in additional lifetime earnings ranging from $15 billion to $34 billion (Engle et al., 2011). During a childs early years, there are four critical domains of development: physical, cognitive, linguistic, and socio-emotional. Neurological studies have shown that synapses develop rapidly during a childs first few years, forming the basis of cognitive and emotional functioning. Adequate nutrition and stimulation, especially during a childs first 1,000 days, play a critical role in brain development. Malnutrition in the early years not only leads to poor physical growth, but can also impede brain development; it is linked with delayed cognitive development and low academic achievement throughout a childs life. By contrast, early investments that reduce the risk of malnutrition can have long-term impacts on the individual, the community, and society as a whole. Similarly, early childhood education provides building blocks to ensure that children learn the skills necessary to succeed throughout life, from primary school through tertiary education and into the labor market.
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Resumen 93205 NOV 01, 2014
Denboba, A.; Devercelli, A.; Neuman, M.; Sayre, R.; Wodon, Q.
A child's earliest years present a window of opportunity to improve outcomes later in life. A growing body of literature demonstrates that lack of investments in children in early years can have dramatic negative consequences for their future ability to learn and lead healthy and productive lives.
... Vea más + The opposite also holds: Investing in young children can generate very high returns, particularly when compared to equivalent investments made at later stages in life. The course builds on face-to-face training workshops implemented over the last two years and consists of three interactive web-based modules with 15 topics and a total learning time of approximately four to five hours. The three modules are devoted to three simple questions: (1) why invest in ECD? (2) What matters for ECD? (3) How should ECD interventions be implemented? At the end of each module, participants are invited to take a quiz with questions related to the materials covered in the module, and upon completion of the three quizzes with at least 80 percent of correct answers, participants receive a certificate of completion for the course.
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Resumen 93787 NOV 01, 2014
Denboba, A.; McLin, M.; Neuman, M.; Sayre, R.; Wang, Y.; Wodon, Q.
SABER, ECD collects, analyzes and disseminates comprehensive information on ECD policies around the world. In each participating country, extensive multisectoral information is collected on ECD policies and programs through a desk review of available government documents, data and literature, and interviews with a range of ECD stakeholders, including government officials, service providers, civil society, development partners and scholars.
... Vea más + The SABER ECD framework presents a holistic and integrated assessment of how the overall policy environment in a country affects young childrens development. This assessment can be used to identify how countries address the same policy challenges related to ECD, with the ultimate goal of designing effective policies for young children and their families.
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Investing in young children is one of the best investments that countries can make. A childs earliest years present a unique window of opportunity to address inequality, break the cycle of poverty, and improve a wide range of outcomes later in life.
... Vea más + Recent brain research suggests the need for holistic approaches to learning, growth, and development, recognizing that young childrens physical and intellectual well-being, as well as their socio-emotional and cognitive development, are interrelated. To fully benefit from future opportunities in life and become productive members of society, by the end of early childhood, young children must be: healthy and well-nourished; securely attached to caregivers; able to interact positively with families, teachers, and peers; able to communicate in their native language; and ready to learn throughout primary school. This document draws on these existing frameworks and broad evidence on the impacts of ECD interventions. It summarizes some of the existing literature on this topic with the aim to identify key interventions needed for children. The document is intended to provide an easily accessible introduction to interventions and integrated services that could help policymakers and practitioners think about how to effectively invest in ECD. In addition to identifying key interventions, the document outlines four principles that can help countries design and implement strong ECD policies and programs. Countries should: (i) prepare an ECD diagnostic and strategy; (ii) implement widely through coordination; (iii) create synergies and cost savings through integrated interventions; and (iv) monitor, evaluate, and scale up successful interventions. In terms of interventions, within the ECD period, 25 key interventions are identified as essential for a childs growth and development. For each intervention, illustrative costs and impacts are provided. These are based on existing evidence and are only intended to be indicative. The document suggests that these interventions can be delivered through five integrated packages at different stages in a childs life. The five packages of interventions include: (a) the family support package, which should be provided throughout the ECD period, (b) the pregnancy package, (c) the birth package (from birth to six months), (d) the child health and development package, and (e) the preschool package.
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Documento de trabajo 92988 OCT 01, 2014
Denboba, Amina D.; Sayre, Rebecca K.; Wodon, Quentin T.; Elder, Leslie K.; Rawlings, Laura B.; Lombardi, Joan Inglés,
Portugués,
Español
Investing in young children is one of the best investments that countries can make. A childs earliest years present a unique window of opportunity to address inequality, break the cycle of poverty, and improve a wide range of outcomes later in life.
... Vea más + Recent brain research suggests the need for holistic approaches to learning, growth, and development, recognizing that young childrens physical and intellectual well-being, as well as their socio-emotional and cognitive development, are interrelated. To fully benefit from future opportunities in life and become productive members of society, by the end of early childhood, young children must be: healthy and well-nourished; securely attached to caregivers; able to interact positively with families, teachers, and peers; able to communicate in their native language; and ready to learn throughout primary school. This document draws on these existing frameworks and broad evidence on the impacts of ECD interventions. It summarizes some of the existing literature on this topic with the aim to identify key interventions needed for children. The document is intended to provide an easily accessible introduction to interventions and integrated services that could help policymakers and practitioners think about how to effectively invest in ECD. In addition to identifying key interventions, the document outlines four principles that can help countries design and implement strong ECD policies and programs. Countries should: (i) prepare an ECD diagnostic and strategy; (ii) implement widely through coordination; (iii) create synergies and cost savings through integrated interventions; and (iv) monitor, evaluate, and scale up successful interventions. In terms of interventions, within the ECD period, 25 key interventions are identified as essential for a childs growth and development. For each intervention, illustrative costs and impacts are provided. These are based on existing evidence and are only intended to be indicative. The document suggests that these interventions can be delivered through five integrated packages at different stages in a childs life. The five packages of interventions include: (a) the family support package, which should be provided throughout the ECD period, (b) the pregnancy package, (c) the birth package (from birth to six months), (d) the child health and development package, and (e) the preschool package.
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Documento de trabajo 92988 OCT 01, 2014
Denboba, Amina D.; Sayre, Rebecca K.; Wodon, Quentin T.; Elder, Leslie K.; Rawlings, Laura B.; Lombardi, Joan Inglés,
Español
Investing in young children is one of the best investments that countries can make. A child’s earliest years present a unique window of opportunity to address inequality, break the cycle of poverty, and improve a wide range of outcomes later in life.
... Vea más + Recent brain research suggests the need for holistic approaches to learning, growth, and development, recognizing that young children’s physical and intellectual well-being, as well as their socio-emotional and cognitive development, are interrelated. To fully benefit from future opportunities in life and become productive members of society, by the end of early childhood, young children must be: healthy and well-nourished; securely attached to caregivers; able to interact positively with families, teachers, and peers; able to communicate in their native language; and ready to learn throughout primary school. This document draws on these existing frameworks and broad evidence on the impacts of ECD interventions. It summarizes some of the existing literature on this topic with the aim to identify key interventions needed for children. The document is intended to provide an easily accessible introduction to interventions and integrated services that could help policymakers and practitioners think about how to effectively invest in ECD. In addition to identifying key interventions, the document outlines four principles that can help countries design and implement strong ECD policies and programs. Countries should: (i) prepare an ECD diagnostic and strategy; (ii) implement widely through coordination; (iii) create synergies and cost savings through integrated interventions; and (iv) monitor, evaluate, and scale up successful interventions. In terms of interventions, within the ECD period, 25 key interventions are identified as essential for a child’s growth and development. For each intervention, illustrative costs and impacts are provided. These are based on existing evidence and are only intended to be indicative. The document suggests that these interventions can be delivered through five integrated packages at different stages in a child’s life. The five packages of interventions include: (a) the family support package, which should be provided throughout the ECD period, (b) the pregnancy package, (c) the birth package (from birth to six months), (d) the child health and development package, and (e) the preschool package.
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Documento de trabajo 92988 OCT 01, 2014
Denboba, Amina D.; Sayre, Rebecca K.; Wodon, Quentin T.; Elder, Leslie K.; Rawlings, Laura B.; Lombardi, Joan Inglés,
Portugués,
Español
This policy note shows how accessible childcare services can increase young women's participation rates in training, their productivity (in terms of decreased absenteeism and retention), and there may also be benefits for children's development outcomes.
... Vea más + Increasingly, the potential for packaging childcare into economic interventions for poor vulnerable women is being considered, for example into agricultural extension services. Youth employment projects in Latin America have traditionally included childcare in the program design. Similarly, some of the AGI pilots, mainly the Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (EPAG) project in Liberia, integrated childcare into the package of services designed to increase young women's employment and earnings. Lessons learned from these pilots include how: 1) projects can do their demographic homework to make informed decisions about offering childcare; 2) to design a childcare delivery model that fits the local context; 3) to encourage the use of existing care and support systems; 4) to establish clear eligibility criteria for participants and qualifications for childcare providers; 5) to define quality assurance mechanisms and do routine monitoring; 6) childcare can be included in youth employment projects at a relatively low-cost; 7) childcare provides an opportunity to intervene and benefit children at early ages; and 8) youth employment projects working with young parents may be an entry-point for cultivating good parenting skills.
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This report presents an analysis of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and policies that affect young children in Guinea and recommendations to move forward.
... Vea más + This report is part of a series of reports prepared by the World Bank using the SABER-ECD framework and includes analysis of early learning, health, nutrition and social and child protection policies and interventions in Guinea, along with regional and international comparisons.
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The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), WHO, and the World Bank co-hosted a global consultative meeting on Civil Registration And Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Addis Ababa on April 28-29, 2014 to discuss and obtain input on a draft investment plan.
... Vea más + Civil registration is the act of recording and documenting of vital events in a persons life (including birth, marriage, divorce, adoption, and death) and is a fundamental function of governments. The goal of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) plan is to register births, deaths and other vital events, including reporting cause of death, and access to legal proof of registration for all individuals by 2030. This global plan has three key components concerning the following: 1) national CRVS strengthening that removes the barriers to birth registration, improving reporting of deaths and determining cause of death, strengthening CRVS institutions and ICT systems, strengthening national ID mechanisms, and improving the response to deaths and vital statistics; 2) international support for CRVS that will focus on strengthening international standards for CRVS, and preparing and sharing guidance based on country experience; and 3) sharing knowledge and building the evidence base that analyzes barriers and programs of implementation research, together with rigorous impact evaluation, that will share lessons on what works in different situations.
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This report presents a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of Bulgaria's workforce development (WfD) policies and institutions. The results are based on a new World Bank tool designed for this purpose, SABER-WfD.
... Vea más + SABER-WfD is part of the World Bank's initiative on Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) whose aim is to provide systematic assessment and documentation of the policy and institutional factors that influence the performance of key areas of national education and training systems. The SABER-WfD tool encompasses initial, continuing and targeted vocational education and training that are offered through multiple channels and focuses largely on programs at the secondary and post-secondary levels.
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This report presents an analysis of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and policies that affect young children in Yemen. This report is part of a series of reports prepared by the World Bank using the SABER-ECD framework and includes analysis of early learning, health, nutrition, and social and child protection policies and interventions in Yemen, along with regional and international comparisons.
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The objectives of the Early Childhood Development Project for Jamaica are to: 1) improve the monitoring of children's development, the screening of household-level risks, and the risk mitigation and early intervention systems; 2) enhance the quality of early childhood schools and care facilities; and 3) strengthen early childhood organizations and institutions.
... Vea más + This paper pertains to the provision of an additional loan for the project, as well as a restructuring of the project. The additional loan is to help scale-up activities of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Project in line with the ECD National Strategic Plan (NSP). Changes to be incorporated in this restructuring include modifications to the project development objectives, results framework, an extension of the loan closing date to September 28, 2018, changes in disbursement estimates and reallocation between disbursement categories, alterations to components and cost, and modification of the implementation schedule.
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