Transcript THE WORLD BANK INVESTS IN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT (ECD)

THE WORLD BANK INVESTS IN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT (ECD)
The World Bank :
• Lends funds to client countries to support ECD projects and offers technical assistance to
governments to effectively conduct the project implementation, and
• Develops and disseminates knowledge on lessons learned from the implementation of ECD projects
around the world [www.worldbank.org/children]
Early Child Development Portfolio FY1995-2005*
THE WORLD BANK ECD PORTFOLIO
The World Bank has increased its investment in
ECD programs from approximately US$ 126 million
in 1990 to a total of about US$ 1.5 billion in 2005.
The World Bank has supported a total of 74 projects
in about 47 countries. Of these projects, 15 have
been freestanding operations and 59 have been
human development projects with an ECD
component.
Active ECD Portfolio: Today the World Bank is
supporting 42 projects, 7 of which are freestanding
ECD operations.
Number of Projects with
ECD component
Total Lending in USD
160
12
Lending in US$
140
10
# of Projects
120
8
100
80
6
60
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40
2
20
0
0
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1996
1997
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1999
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2002
2003
2004
2005
Contact information: Mary Eming Young + (202) 473 3427
[email protected]
Erika Dunkelberg +(202) 473 6733
[email protected]
Marie Madeleine Ndaw+ (202) 473 3464
[email protected]
THE WORLD BANK INVESTS IN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT (ECD)
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
•About 60 percent of children are enrolled in some form of pre-primary
education (WDI 2004).
•50 percent of the total Word Bank financing has gone to countries in this
region.
•Today, the Bank has 1 active freestanding ECD project in the Dominican
Republic and 11 country operations where ECD is a component of a larger
education, health, or social protection project (this includes projects in
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Peru, and Uruguay).
•Recently the Bank has been interested in Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT)
as new mechanisms to deliver ECD services to children and their parents in
LAC. CCT are becoming an important tool to improve young children
nutrition and health outcomes.
•The Bank is interested in comparing the impact of CCT on children’s
outcome vis a vis alternative community interventions.
SUB SAHARAN AFRICA
EAST ASIA PACIFIC
•12 active projects: two freestanding ECD
projects (in Uganda and Eritrea), and 9
Human Development projects with an
ECD component (in Burkina Faso, Chad,
Guinea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali,
Mauritania, Rwanda, and Senegal).
•Total Lending amounts to US$151
million.
•A randomized baseline evaluation was
conducted for the Uganda project.
Results showed no noticeable change on
cognitive development after children
received ECD education but improved
nutritional status for younger children
and knowledge and practices of mothers.
•The Bank also supports capacity building
activities. The Bank sponsored the Third
International ECD Conference in Ghana
as well as several regional workshops.
•Provides technical assistance and grants
to support young children affected by
HIV/AIDS. In this effort, an Operational
Guidelines for Supporting ECD in Multisectoral HIV/AIDS Programs was
published in collaboration with UNICEF
and UNAIDS
•Bank portfolio is fairly
recent in East Asia Pacific
region and amounts to
US$ 48 million
•2 of the current 14
freestanding ECD projects
are in the region: in
Indonesia and the
Philippines
•Other active projects
with an ECD component
include China & Vietnam.
•One of the few
thoroughly evaluated
World Bank ECD projects
is in the Philippines
SOUTH ASIA
•Total lending for
US$492.7.
•Three large freestanding
operations in India since
1990.
EASTERN & CENTRAL
ASIA
•Relatively small portfolio for
a total lending of US$ 28
million.
•Projects focus on making
ECD services available to the
disadvantaged, particularly
Roma children.
•Supported three pilot
community-based ECD
programs in Kosovo,
Macedonia, and Albania, with
post conflict grants
•The region put together a
knowledge product: “the
rationale for investing in ECD
in ECA” which reviews the
status of children ages 3 to 6
in the region.
MIDDLE EAST &
NORTH AFRICA
•Low coverage of preprimary EDUCATION
(only 19%).
•Total lending of US$
118
•Active operations
include: 2 freestanding
ECD project in Egypt
and Yemen, and 2
education projects
with an ECD
component in Turkey
and Jordan