Symposium on Early Child Development - A Priority For Sustained Economic Growth & Equity World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. – Washington, DC
Preston Auditorium The Symposium brought together 150 participants from about 30 countries from the Latin and Central America and the Caribbean, East Asia Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern and Central Asia, and Sub Saharan Africa; with the largest representation coming from LAC. This learning event was the third international event sponsored by the Bank on Early Child Development. In 1996 the Bank hosted the first International ECD Conference “Early Child Development Investing in the Future,” at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Four year later, in April 2000, a second conference entitled “Investing in Our Children’s Future – From Science to Policy” held at the World Bank in Washington. The symposium objectives were to: (i) Continue to build awareness of ECD as an important investment that nations can make to inform policymakers about the returns on ECD; (2) Highlight progress in the implementation of policy and program responses; (3) Identify and explore alternative mechanisms to finance effective early child development interventions that reach the beneficiaries, and (4) Learn from existing evaluations so that in the future, better-designed evaluations will respond to questions posed by policy makers and project managers to continue funding ECD. The pre-symposium event organized in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Organization of the American States (OAS) focused on ECD Evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Agenda and Materials Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks Jean-Louis Sarbib Senior Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank 9:15 - 10:30 Investment in ECD: The Economic Argument
Chair: Hon Minister Omar Davies (Minister of Finance Jamaica) [Live audio and ppt. Aprx.13 min] 10:30 - 12:00 Alternative Financing Mechanisms for ECD interventions
Chair: Vinod Thomas (World Bank) Nina Sardjunani (Minister of National Planning/Bappenas, Indonesia) & Ace Suryadi (Ministry of National Education, Indonesia) - "Public-Private Financing Schemes For Early Childhood Education Services" Osmar Terra (Secretary of Health RGS, Brazil) - "ECD Millenium Fund"
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break / Launch “Children & Youth Framework for Action” at InfoShop 13:00 - 13:45 Science of ECD: Biological Embeddings of Early Child Development
Chair: Elaine Wolfensohn 13:45 - 15:15 Measuring ECD Outcomes in the Developed World: Learning from Longitudinal Studies
Chair: Joan Lombardi (Georgetown Univ.) [Live audio and ppt. Aprx. 5 min] 15:15 - 17:00 ECD Investment in Developing Countries: Learning from Existing Evaluations
Chair: Jacques van der Gaag (Univ of Amsterdam) Tatiana Romero (ICBF Colombia) - "Community Welfare Homes in Colombia: Evaluation Routes, Lessons and Challenges" Sarah Klaus (ISSA-OSI) - "The Step by Step Program:Investing in ECD in the Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS and the Baltics" Flavio Cunha (Univ. of Chicago) - "The Evaluation of Early Chilhood Intervention Programs"
17:00 - 17:15 Closing Remarks by Mary Eming Young (World Bank) 17:30 - 19:30 Open Exchange & Reception – MC Atrium
Thursday, September 29th, 2005 Technical Workshops 9:00 - 10:30 Using Media to Raise Public Awareness and to Develop ECD Programs
Chair: Deepa Grover (UNICEF) Charlotte Cole (Sesame Workshop) - "Using Media to Raise Awareness and Develop ECD Programs: Sesame Street International Coproductions" Terrence R. Meersman (Talaris Research Institute) - "Parenting Counts"
10:30 - 12:00 Monitoring Community Progress on School Readiness
Chair: Kathleen Guy (Council for Early Child Development and Parenting, Canada) 13:00 - 15:00 Professional Development & Quality Assurance
Chair: Marito Garcia (World Bank) Alan Pence (ECDVU) - "Promoting Capacity in ECD" Vilma Williams (CDA, USA) - "Council for Professional Recognition CDA National Credentialing Program" Marilou Hyson (NAEYC, USA) - "Professional Development Systems: What, Why, and How" Adriana Muñoz Barrientos (JUNJI, Chile) - "Quality Accreditation System for Nursery Schools and Kindergartens"
15:15 - 17:00 Reaching Young Children with Disabilities Through ECD Interventions
Chair: Deborah Zigler (Council for Exceptional Children, USA) Ahmed Al Damrawy (Egypt) - "Inclusive Child Care: Disability and Inclusive ECD in Egypt" Natalia Soify (Ukraine) - "Step by Step Program in Providing Quality Education for Children with Disabilities" Eneida Ferrer (Panama) - "Reaching Young Children with Disabilities through ECD Interventions"
Friday, September 30th, 2005 Site Visits • CentroNia Bilingual Multicultural Learning Center • Rosemount Early Head Start and Head Start Center • School for Friends • DC Developing Families Center
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