2017
Announcement
BvLF partners awarded $100m for work with refugee children and families
Congratulations to Sesame Workshop and the IRC, who have won a $100m grant from the MacArthur Foundation to scale up early childhood development for the youngest refugees in Syria,…
News
Digitaf, a digital platform for parents of young children, launches in Tel Aviv
Booking an appointment with a well baby clinic, finding out about local facilities such as childcare and public events such as storytelling,…
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…
Case
Case study on Roma inclusion published in Italian
Now available to download: Rom: empowerment e sostegno per l’inclusione (an Italian translation of Roma empowerment and support for inclusion). It is a…
Announcement
CityLab Paris 2017 – Placing young children on the stage of global urban innovation
The mayors of Bogotá, Austin, Quito and Tulsa were among high-profile city leaders who participated in BvLF’s Urban95 breakfast at CityLab Paris…
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…
Announcement
Watch, Listen, Ask, Imagine, Create
Under the theme of “reconquering public space”, Placemaking Latinoamérica was held from November 6th to 10th in Valparaíso, as part of the…
Announcement
Early Childhood Development and the Future of Latin America
The early childhood development agenda just received a major boost in Latin America. On November 15 and 16, the First Latin American…
Story
Activating urban public space with the help of PLAYBOXes
I’m Dounia Belmazouar and I’m working on a PLAYBOX for toddlers at Cultureghem with the support of the Bernard van Leer Foundation’s…
Q & A
Managing Urban95 in Tel Aviv-Yafo: An interview with Bosmat Sfaadia-Wolf
Bosmat Sfaadia-Wolf manages the Urban95 programme in Tel Aviv-Yafo, and has been employed by Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality since May 2017. In this…
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…
Q & A
Global Teamwork – An interview with Joan Lombardi
Read the interview with Joan Lombardi, international expert on child development and social policy, for the Global Practices issue of NAEYC’s Young…