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Kofi Marfo, professor and foundation director of the Institute for Human Development at Aga Khan University, stated that the workshop would examine contributions from the West African region, and by virtue of discussions occurring in a particular location, the workshop could push the field of early childhood development forward in other regions. In the context of Africa, and particularly West Africa, Aderemi Kuku, president of the African Academy of Sciences, pointed out inherent differences between the language of science versus the language of interventions, and he called for a united scientific language that can be translated across specific and unique contexts such as those that exist between Francophone and Anglophone West Africa.
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Lola Adedokun, program director for Child Well-Being and director for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's African Health Initiative, posed a series of questions to the various sectors representing policy, research, and program implementation on investing in young children. She began by asking the group how to ensure that early childhood is a priority for decision makers.
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RESEARCH INNOVATIONS From the Lancet Series on Early Childhood Michael Feigelson, executive director of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, introduced the 2016 Lancet series on early childhood that contains research and commentary from 45 authors representing 22 institutions globally and hailing from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, pediatrics, educational psychology, biology, global health equity, and economics. This series of three papers represents the voice of the scientific community on early childhood science, practice, and effective interventions for global progress toward sustainable development.
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He called for research from the region to be seen collectively as West Africa's contribution to the advancement of early childhood development. Anselme Siméon Sanou, medical epidemiologist at the Centre MURAZ in Burkina Faso, presented a computerized neuropsychological test of variables of attention (TOVA)
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She also cautioned that inclusive data collection is needed across all levels to integrate disability issues into the existing early childhood platform. TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT INNOVATIONS If innovation models are integrated into early childhood science, business, and program implementation, there are several different pathways by which innovation can influence early childhood outcomes and have a sustained effect, stated Dominique McMahon, program officer of targeted programs at Grand Challenges Canada.
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CAPACITY BUILDING AND INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS Alan Pence, United Nations (UN) Educational, Scientific and Cultural Orgainzation chair for Early Childhood Education, Care, and Development at the University of Victoria, provided a historical account of how capacity has evolved in the African context, beginning with the mounting interest in early childhood that emerged in the 1990s with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,1 where particularly in Africa, research agendas moved beyond survival to investigate how to ensure children thrive in specific contexts.
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Such networks that hold convening power and collaborative potential buttress research skills that have regional relevance, because they are grounded in culture, learning, human development, impact development, implementation science, and psychometric skills. In doing so, there is the potential to develop new measures that tap constructs and contextual assessments of integrated service delivery programs, which Yoshikawa argued can simultaneously keep an eye toward the effects of policy and practice.
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Tracy Costigan Prevention Research-Evaluation-Learning Unit, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Cheryl Polk SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by Autism HighScope Educational Research Gary Darmstadt Foundation Speaks; the Bernard van Leer Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Stanford University School of Medicine Eduardo de Campos Queiroz Gates Foundation; the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Angela Diaz Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai the Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development; Pia Rebello Britto Rana Hajjeh Early Childhood Development Unit, Grand Challenges Canada; HighScope Educational Research National Center for Immunization and UNICEF Foundation; the Inter-American Development Bank; the Jacobs Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jose Saavedra Foundation; the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation; the Nestlé Nutrition Jody Heymann Lorraine Sherr National Institutes of Health -- Fogarty International Center, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles University College London National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Gillian Huebner Andy Shih and National Institute of Mental Health; Nestlé Nutrition Autism Speaks Maestral International Institute; the Open Society Institute–Budapest Foundation; Venita Kaul Karlee Silver School of Education Studies and Center Grand Challenges Canada ReadyNation; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the for Early Childhood Education and Devel- Simon Sommer Society for Research in Child Development; UNICEF; U.S. opment, Ambedkar University Delhi Jacobs Foundation Agency for International Development; and the U.S.
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