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4 Policies Supporting Family and Community Investments
4 Policies Supporting Family and Community Investments
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Yet in looking to the Ethiopian example, Kuku stated it was important to first mention the challenges confronting early childhood development in sub-Saharan African countries. Kuku broadly categorized these challenges to include infectious diseases, malnutrition, lack of early childhood education, and poverty more generally.
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POLICIES SUPPORTING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS IN ETHIOPIA In her remarks, Helia Molina, Vice Dean of Research and Development, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University de Santiago de Chile, and former Minister of Health of Chile, stated that investing in young children needs to be as much a key issue on the political agenda as it is among families and communities. She noted political will is crucial, but political will alone is not enough.
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Tesfahuney pointed out the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, which includes family, penal, and civil law, aligns with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child International and Child Rights Convention and African Child Rights Charter. Furthermore, policies such as the Social Protection Policy, Comprehensive National Child Policy, Social Protection Strategies, and the Gross Transformational Plan enable national investments in children.
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Strategies addressing reproductive and adolescent health at all levels of health care are offered where participation happens because of community mobilization. The Health Development Army has been particularly helpful in improving service optics at the community level.
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POLICIES SUPPORTING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS GLOBALLY Panning out to a global view provided workshop participants the chance to visualize policy impacts by examining systems and governance structures that facilitate or create barriers to financial and human capital investments in young children by their caregivers. By simultaneously looking in-depth at individual countries and at the global level, Jody Heymann, Dean of the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, grounded arguments for resources and change in global data.
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There was global agreement on maternity leave, albeit significant diversity in length globally. Heymann emphasized the need for that same kind of global agree FIGURE 4-2 Global coverage for paid paternity leave.
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According to Heymann, comparative policy tools help countries see how they and their peers are performing, and link to specific health, education, nutrition, and social protection outcomes. She also highlighted that comparative quantitative data make possible rigorous examination of which
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ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND COST OF CHILD MARRIAGE ON YOUNG CHILDREN Quentin Wodon, Lead Economist with the Education Global Practice at the World Bank, presented the economic impacts and costs of child marriage, which he stated is a multisectoral issue, much like early childhood development, that affect young children. Wodon suggested that child marriage and early pregnancy are topics that should be given more attention when discussing investments in young children.
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REACTIONS TO GLOBAL POLICIES SUPPORTING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS Abubakar provided perspective, drawing particular attention to the implications on the aforementioned policy impacts on the informal sector. Using time as an example of a resource, Abubakar illustrated a typical schedule of a rural Kenyan woman, where time is scarce and allocations to early childhood development are not possible when such women wake up early in the morning to walk 1.5 hours to get water; walk another hour to get firewood; work in the field; quickly cook for the children so they can go back to school; and wash clothes by hand.
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Both Diaz's and Abubakar's reactions underlie the importance in ensuring the parents of tomorrow are prepared, healthy, protected, and well-educated, so that when they become parents themselves, interventions are no longer necessary. POLICY TOOLS FOR SUPPORTING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS Decision-support tools help governments measure and monitor country-level progress when the types of initiatives outlined in the section above are scaled up.
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Madhavan articulated that the goal moving forward should be to build a minimum viable model that is advanced iteratively along with data considerations and use-case scenarios in consultation with stakeholders and potential users of SMART iYCG. sota, presented a policy tool originally developed by Emily Vargas-Barón (2005)
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There are eight specific interventions prioritized for the policy to deliver to children: birth certificates, ccess a to health care with insurance, training processes for families, attending an early childhood development unit service, vaccinations, growth and development con sultation, nutritional assessment, and access to cultural materials. This provides an integrated registration system that follows each child from preconception to age 6.
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The tool facilitates an early childhood development (ECD) situation analysis that occurs in a specific context, followed by a consultation phase at the community, regional, and national levels, which involves the stakeholders who are involved or will be touched by a future early childhood policy.
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