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Developing Comprehensive and Responsive Systems of Early Child Development, Education, and Care

Charlotte Holland (Dublin City University), Jyotsna Jha (Centre for Budget and Policy Studies), Sean Leahy (Arizona State University), Madhusudhan BV Rao (Centre for Budget and Policy Studies), Dinah Bennett (International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise (ICE)), Neha Ghatak (Centre for Budget and Policy Studies), Huan Ni (Shanghai Green Light-Year Environmental Service Center)
This Policy Brief was first published in https://t20ind.org

Abstract

Target 4.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals specifies the need to adopt a comprehensive integrated approach to early childhood development (ECD) and early childhood education and care (ECEC). A key issue in addressing the intersectional challenges of poverty, health, wellbeing, education, and gender is the current lack of unified governmental policies and investment in ECD/ECEC in G20 partner countries. Therefore, the core recommendations for the G20 are: • To adopt a charter that seeks the commitment of G20 partners to engage in whole-systems approaches to policy and practice in ECD/ ECEC, and • To convene an ECD/ECEC forum to formulate culturally responsive frameworks for defining and costing comprehensive and responsive ECD/ECEC across diverse contexts

Authors

Charlotte Holland (Dublin City University), Jyotsna Jha (Centre for Budget and Policy Studies), Sean Leahy (Arizona State University), Madhusudhan BV Rao (Centre for Budget and Policy Studies), Dinah Bennett (International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise (ICE)), Neha Ghatak (Centre for Budget and Policy Studies), Huan Ni (Shanghai Green Light-Year Environmental Service Center)

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