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4 How Can Stakeholders Invest in Young Children and What Are Important Considerations?
4 How Can Stakeholders Invest in Young Children and What Are Important Considerations?
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Other important strategies that were discussed include coordination of financial investments across ministries; integration of programming across different platforms to address social protection, health, nutrition, and education; and targeting investments across the life course. Individual workshop speakers addressed coordinating programs and policies between the public and private sectors; being strategic when scaling; incorporating measurement tools for determining the who, what, why, and how of investing; and communicating findings to stakeholders.
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Several individual workshop speakers stated that some problems include generating the will to scale the program, maintaining quality and integration, and making sure that investments are appropriately leveraged for impact (NASEM, 2016b)
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. and solutions GOVERNANCE Establishing institutions to Shiffman stated that these components can be facilitate collective action leveraged to increase the number of stakeholders and investments in early childhood development COALITION BUILDING Forging alliances with external actors, particularly ones outside the health sector programs.
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. Michelle Gagnon of the Palix Foundation provided an example of the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative, which disseminates research to instigate political action and is an example of how research can be compiled and used to facilitate systemic change (NASEM, 2016b)
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. Alarcon added that cross-sectoral follow-up assessment is a key component to identifying effectiveness and encouraging public commitment to create and implement sustainable and effective public policy using the quality information gathered (IOM and NRC, 2015b; NASEM, 2016d)
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. In the nationwide conditional cash transfer program in Brazil, Bolsa Familia, an impact evaluation showed decreased infant mortality and hospitalization (Rasella et al., 2013)
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Her Royal Highness Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan stated that identified priority areas will not become actionable until financial mechanisms change toward predictable long-term flexible funding that reaches the needs on the ground where different actors such as community organizers, women's groups, and religious leaders are most adept at reaching individuals and families (NASEM, 2016a)
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. Dua added that to implement early childhood development policies at a population level, metrics need to be of the same scope and scale (IOM and NRC, 2014)
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