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Early Childhood Matters
Early Childhood Matters 2018
This edition features high-level contributions on innovations, the path to scale, and emerging initiatives in early childhood development.
Announcement
Growing up in the city: Putting children first creates cities for all
A child-friendly city is a city for everyone, young and old. This is because a place that works for children needs to…
Research report
How Dashboards Can Help Cities Improve Early Childhood Development
This report explores how data dashboards could help guide city leaders and their teams to make better policy decisions about early childhood…
Story
The risk of not supporting risks
‘Children learn to love where they are, by playing in it’, said Adrian Voce in his opening presentation at the Child in…
Story
Playgrounds: more than just grounds to play on?
Playgrounds. I learned so much about them over the last couple of days. To be honest, it turned out that I have…
Research report
Building Better Cities with Young Children and Families
This publication offers strategies, principles, and best practices on how to engage our youngest citizens and families in city building.
Early Childhood Matters
Small Children, Big Cities
With the world rapidly urbanising, more and more childhoods are being lived in big cities. This ECM explores issues ranging from playground…
Early Childhood Matters
Community Violence and Young Children: Making Space for Hope
This edition of Early Childhood Matters looks at the effects of community violence on young children.
Early Childhood Matters
Early learning: Lessons from scaling up
This edition of Early Childhood Matters looks at the question of how to scale up early learning provision without sacrificing quality. Articles…