Our Mission
World Bank's Early Child Development (ECD) team is administratively located in Human Development Network (HDN) within the Child and Youth Group. The team's primary mission is to improve World Bank's staff and client's knowledge of ECD programming and to improve the quality of World Bank's lending for ECD.
The ECD team accomplishes this mission by:
- Maintaining a knowledge base on ECD to support World Bank's operational staff in designing ECD projects and increasing the lending for ECD as part of World Bank's Education For All (EFA), Health and Social Protection (HD) portfolio.
- Extending the knowledge base on ECD and building capacity among World Bank's task managers and field practitioners in the design and preparation of ECD interventions.
The ECD team fulfills these roles by:
- Responding to just-in-time requests from operation staff. Proactively providing technical assistance and support for policy dialogue with governments.
- Preparing analytical, economic and sector studies, and regional strategy papers.
- Designing, supervising, and evaluating ECD projects.
- Providing analytical frameworks, tools and resources for effective implementation of ECD projects.
- Closely monitoring ECD projects for best practices and lessons learned.
In addition to providing technical assistance for colleagues inside World Bank, the ECD team works to strengthen partnerships with international experts and policymakers and to share knowledge outside World Bank with client countries and the international community. |
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