Encouraging better financing of early childhood development programs
Launch of the “Standardized ECD Costing Tool (SECT): A global good to increase and improve investments in young children”
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Early Childhood Development (ECD) costs are often complex and there is an urgent need for accurate cost data of ECD services across different interventions across the world. On September 5, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings launched a report on the standardized ECD costing tool (SECT), a tool developed in collaboration with the World Bank Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund. SECT can be utilized to encourage both more and better financing for ECD, by allowing stakeholders to budget, plan for implementation at scale and perform cost-effectiveness analyses on ECD interventions. It also has the capacity to cost a range of ECD interventions from parenting to pre-primary programs as well as integrated programs including nutrition. The tool has been piloted in Bangladesh, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, and Mozambique.
The event included two panels. The first panel convened stakeholders from the first round of pilot countries where the tool has already been tested. Second, a group of ECD experts laid out the state of play and the opportunities and challenges for costing early childhood interventions.
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Agenda
Welcome Remarks & Presentation
Conrad Barberton
Economist - Cornerstone
Panel One
Tamar Manuelyan Atinc
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education
Hamidou Niangaly
Researcher - Malaria Research and Training Centre
Sara Poehlman
Senior Director, Early Childhood Development - Save the Children
Romao Xavier
Director of Programmes - Aga Khan Foundation Mozambique
Janet Samara Venancio Rodríguez
Deputy Director of Institutional Planning and Evaluation - CONAFE (Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo- National Council for Educational Development, Mexico)
Panel Two
Joan Lombardi
Director - Early Opportunities
Former Chair - Playful Learning Landscapes Steering Committee
Florencia Lopez Boo
Inter-American Development Bank
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