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Early Child Education

Making Programs Work for Brazil's Most Important Generation

By: David K. Evans,Katrina Kosec

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Early Child Education

Making Programs Work for Brazil's Most Important Generation

By: David K. Evans,Katrina Kosec

In the past fifteen years, Brazil has made great strides in increasing its population's access to early child education, with both preschool and creche enrollment increasing by over fifty percent. Education programs for young children have consistently been shown to have long-term positive effects on life outcomes of participants. In Brazil, these programs have demonstrated positive impacts on, for example, income, length of schooling, and test scores. However, the quality of pre-schools and creches is essential in achieving these improvements, and even in capital cities, very few centers are rated as high-quality centers. Representation of the poorest and most vulnerable children among those attending pre-school and creche still lags considerably behind that of more privileged children, although poorer children stand to gain the most from early child education programs. Additionally, large rural-urban and regional disparities exist. This book details the literature on the effects of early child education and the importance of quality, and gives a comprehensive view of the quality, regional, and socioeconomic gaps in early child education in Brazil. It further examines existing public and private initiatives in Brazil, and discusses how they can be leveraged to effectively and efficiently provide quality pre-school and creche care. A central aim of the book is to provide policymakers with specific recommendations of policies to improve the quality and equity of the early child education experience in Brazil. Given the difficulty in reaching children in remote areas and the need to expand coverage to the poorest segments of the population, Brazil will need to be strategic in how and where it invests. It should target new centers and allocate existing spaces to the poorest people and areas. Municipal policymakers should allocate public spaces in a transparent manner, provide guidelines to institutions, and monitor them. Teachers need guidance on the best activities to use, to improve child outcomes. The use of participatory budgeting could potentially improve access and equity by involving the poor directly in the budgeting process. Increased cross-sectoral coordination could improve child welfare in cost-effective ways, and public-private partnerships could stretch existing resources further and expand coverage more quickly.

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0821389319

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Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

Results from a Randomized Trial

By: David Evans,Stephanie Hausladen,Katrina Kosec,Natasha Reese

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Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

Results from a Randomized Trial

By: David Evans,Stephanie Hausladen,Katrina Kosec,Natasha Reese

The Government of Tanzania piloted a conditional cash transfer program in 2010, providing cash to poor households if they kept children in school and ensured that the elderly and children visited health facilities regularly. After 2.5 years, transfer recipients were healthier, had better education outcomes, and had more productive assets.

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1464801428

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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

By: Bleck, Jaimie,Gottlieb, Jessica,Kosec, Katrina,Boss, Lindsey

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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

By: Bleck, Jaimie,Gottlieb, Jessica,Kosec, Katrina,Boss, Lindsey

Tremendous optimism prevails around bottomup accountability — a situation in which citizens effectively hold their government to account. This contrasts with top-down accountability, whereby higher tiers of governments, donors, or nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) fulfill this role by restraining, monitoring, and rewarding or sanctioning government. Bottom-up accountability can involve direct citizen participation (often involving efforts to provide them information, voice, and involvement in policymaking) or can be mediated through civil society organizations (CSOs) that monitor and potentially reward or sanction government. A large variety of different types of CSOs exist, distinguished both by their organizational purpose and the composition of their membership, possibly with different willingness and ability to hold government accountable.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

Results from a Randomized Trial

By: David Evans,Stephanie Hausladen,Katrina Kosec,Natasha Reese

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By: David Evans,Stephanie Hausladen,Katrina Kosec,Natasha Reese

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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

By: Bleck, Jaimie,Gottlieb, Jessica,Kosec, Katrina,Boss, Lindsey

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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

By: Bleck, Jaimie,Gottlieb, Jessica,Kosec, Katrina,Boss, Lindsey

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Early Child Education

Making Programs Work for Brazil's Most Important Generation

By: David K. Evans,Katrina Kosec

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Making Programs Work for Brazil's Most Important Generation

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2020 Global food policy report: Building inclusive food systems: Synopsis [in Russian]

By: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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2020 Global food policy report: Building inclusive food systems: Synopsis [in Russian]

By: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Продовольственные системы всего мира подошли к переломно- му моменту — масштабы и темпы изменений, происходящих в глобальных, региональных, национальных и местных продоволь- ственных системах, имеют беспрецедентный размах. Продовольственные системы быстро эволюционируют, чтобы удовлетворить растущий и изменяющийся спрос, но они не обеспечивают потребности всех слоев населения. Когда настоящий отчет уже был передан на печать, вспышка коронавирусной инфекции привела к возникновению новой глобальной угрозы. Пока весь мир борется с пандемией, а экономика стран и источники средств существования населения дестабилизированы, в такой ситуации, по-видимому, больше всего пострадают бедные и уязвимые слои населения. Устранение последствий этого потрясения — от нарушения производственно-сбытовых цепочек и тор- говли до значительного роста безработицы и увеличения уровня бедности — настоятельно требует принятия в краткосрочной перспективе эффективных целевых мер социальной защиты наиболее уязвимых слоев населения. Для обеспечения долгосрочной устойчивости необходимо создавать инклюзивные продовольственные системы. В процессе модернизации продовольственных систем в целях их трансформации в климатические оптимизирован- ные, ориентированные на поддержание здоровья населения и устойчиво развивающиеся структуры необходимо также стремиться вовлечь в эти структуры мелких фермеров, молодежь, женщин, лиц, пострадавших в результате конфликтов, а также представителей других бедных и маргинальных слоев населения.

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Early Child Education

Early Child Education

Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

Early Child Education

Early Child Education

2020 Global food policy report: Building inclusive food systems: Synopsis [in Russian]

2020 Global food policy report: Building inclusive food systems: Synopsis [in Russian]

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