Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development.

ABSTRACT: Building on long-term benefits of early intervention (Paper 2 of this Series) and increasing commitment to early childhood development (Paper 1 of this Series), scaled up support for the youngest children is essential to improving health, human capital, and wellbeing across the life course. In this third paper, new analyses show that the burden of poor development is higher than estimated, taking into account additional risk factors. National programmes are needed. Greater political prioritisation is core to scale-up, as are policies that afford families time and financial resources to provide nurturing care for young children. Effective and feasible programmes to support early child development are now available. All sectors, particularly education, and social and child protection, must p

SUBMITTER: Richter LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5880532 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature