G20's Initiative for Early Childhood Development

To support this call, we propose setting a minimum investment benchmark using a budget-based approach: a package of services is agreed, with the cost of delivering the package in different contexts expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). The cost of a minimum package to enhance hu...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2018-12, Vol.392 (10165), p.2695-2696
Main Authors: Richter, Linda M, Desmond, Chris, Behrman, Jere, Britto, Pia, Daelmans, Bernadette, Devercelli, Amanda E, Gertler, Paul, Hoddinott, John, Fawzi, Wafaie, Fink, Günther, Lombardi, Joan, Boo, Florencia Lopez, Lu, Chunling, Lye, Stephen, Nores, Milagros, Yousafzai, Aisha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Benchmarking
Benchmarks
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Disabilities
Early childhood education
Economic models
Expenditures
GDP
Global Health
Gross Domestic Product
Health Promotion - economics
Human capital
Humans
Investment
Low income groups
Micronutrients
Working groups
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:To support this call, we propose setting a minimum investment benchmark using a budget-based approach: a package of services is agreed, with the cost of delivering the package in different contexts expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). The cost of a minimum package to enhance human capital has been estimated,2 which, for early childhood development, includes prenatal health care, immunisations, micronutrients, parental outreach, birth registration, and 1 year of quality preschool (excluding services for children with disabilities). The Development Working Group has suggested that this additional work should be undertaken to develop investment actions required by governments to scale up early childhood development services for all children. Because the G20 launched the Initiative for Early Childhood Development as a contributor to creating fair and sustainable societies, we recommend global benchmarks to help operationalise the initiative and track progress.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)33058-7