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Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins - Workshop in Brief
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With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) for 2015–2030, the global agenda has shifted from saving lives and ensur ing basic rights to focusing on sustainability, holistic human development, and the numerous factors affecting health and well-being, said Zulfiqar Bhutta, Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
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Being open to children's insights about their lives and experiences can have a positive effect on programming. CHILDREN LIVING OUTSIDE OF FAMILY CARE Orphans and children living outside of family care are an extremely vulnerable population, often exposed to poverty, stigma, physical and sexual violence, and a lack of emotional resources, according to research cited by Vesna Kutlesic, director of the Office of Global Health at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.
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Katerina Slesingerova, head of the Department for the Protection of Children's Rights at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in the Czech Republic, highlighted the country's ongoing process of transforming the child care system using evidence. Currently, more than half of the available public funding for child care goes to institutional care, 30 percent goes to foster care, and about 9 percent goes toward prevention, she said.
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Arthur Ivatts, senior consultant with the Open Society Foundations, highlighted similar structural barriers in Romania and the Czech Republic to Romani children's access to quality, unsegregated early childhood education. He pointed out that young Romani children live in extreme poverty and dangerous living conditions, are geographically marginalized, and experience social exclusion.
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consultant from the United States, presented a global survey that sought to explore ECI services around the world, identify regional differences in programming, and make recommendations for developing and strengthening ECI systems. HixSmall referenced her work with Emily Vargas-Baron, director of the RISE Institute, in concluding that several countries are developing broad and strong ECI foundations; international, regional, and national support is needed to develop sustainable systems; countries have differing priorities and starting points; and culturally and contextually relevant examples from policy to practice are needed.6 MIGRANT, IMMIGRANT, AND REFUGEE CHILDREN According to data from the European Commission, of the several hundred thousand refugees seeking asylum in the European Union, one in four are children, said Joan Lombardi, senior advisor to the Bernard van Leer Foundation based in the United States.
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He recommended openness to dialogue with parents, colleagues, and children on the basis of reciprocity; an engagement and ability to work toward social change; the ability to reflect critically on one's own pedagogical practice and that of the team and the institution working in these hyperdiverse contexts; and the ability to create new pedagogical knowledge and practice. COMBINING THE SCIENCE OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT WITH QUALITY MEASUREMENT TO SUPPORT EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS AND POLICIES Target 4.2 of SDG Goal 4 on education explicitly recognizes early childhood development care and education as a necessary part of a child's holistic development and well-being.8 Abbie Raikes, technical development lead for the Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes Project at UNICEF, stated that several of the SDGs are linked; specifically Goal 1 addressing poverty, Goal 2 focusing on hunger and food security, Goal 3 promoting health, Goal 5 championing gender equity and women's empowerment, and Goal 16, which seeks peace and justice.
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This workshop was jointly hosted with the Open Society Foundations and the International Step by Step Association. SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by Autism Speaks; the Bernard van Leer Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; the Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development; Grand Challenges Canada; HighScope Educational Research Foundation; the Inter-American Development Bank; the Jacobs Foundation; Lumos; the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation; the National Institutes of Health -- Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and National Institute of Mental Health; Nestlé Nutrition Institute; the Open Society Institute–Budapest Foundation; ReadyNation; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Society for Research in Child Development; UNICEF; U.S.
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Collins Eduardo de Campos Queiroz Office for Research on Disparities & Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation Global Mental Health and Office of Jose Saavedra Rural Mental Health Research, National Nestlé Nutrition Institute of Mental Health, National Lorraine Sherr Institutes of Health University College London Tracy Costigan Andy Shih Research-Evaluation-Learning Unit, Autism Speaks Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Karlee Silver Gary Darmstadt Grand Challenges Canada Stanford University School of Medicine Simon Sommer Angela Diaz Jacobs Foundation Mount Sinai School of Medicine Taha E Taha Rana Hajjeh Bloomberg School of Public Health, National Center for Immunization and Johns Hopkins University Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pamala Trivedi Office of the Assistant Secretary for Jody Heymann Planning and Evaluation Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles Susan Walker Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Gillian Huebner The University of the West Indies Lumos Sara Watson Venita Kaul ReadyNation School of Education Studies and Center for Early Childhood Education and Amalia Waxman Development, Ambedkar University Delhi Consultant Sarah Klaus Quentin Wodon Early Childhood Program, London, Open Human Development Network, World Society Foundations Bank Vesna Kutlesic Hirokazu Yoshikawa Office of Global Health, National Institute New York University of Child Health and Human Development Albert Lee JC School of Public Health & Primary Care and Centre for Health and Project Staff Kimber Bogard Patrick Kelley nationalacademies.org/HMD Forum Director Director, Board on Global Health Charlee Alexander Research Associate Consultant Copyright 2016 by the National Academy of Sciences.
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