To see a full list of related work please see the Early Childhood Policy Academy and Early Years Fellow pages.
Fellow Capstones
- Guidance Note on Home-Based Childcare for Low-Income Communities [PDF] (November 2024): provides guidance for policymakers, World Bank country teams, and development practitioners to enhance the quality, affordability, and sustainability of home-based childcare (HBC) services in low-income settings.
- Guidance Note on Designing and Implementing Early Childhood Parenting Programs [PDF] (November 2024): provides digestible information about parenting programs to World Bank teams and government partners so they may optimize the design and implementation of parenting programs.
- Guidance Note on Designing and Implementing Quality Early Learning Environment Principles in Low-and Middle-Income Countries [PDF] (November 2024): guides teachers and schools on ways to design and implement quality learning environments in ECE settings. It outlines key principles of quality in the learning environment and illustrates elements of quality that can be implemented in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
- The Effects of ECD Programs on the Socio-emotional Well-being of Children and Caregivers in Refugee and Forced Displacement Settings [PDF] (January 2025): examines the effect of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs on the psychosocial and socioemotional well-being of forcibly displaced caregivers and children.
- Early Years Fellowship Capstone Publication (Cohort 2) [PDF] (August 2023): fellows individual research or writing project on an ECD topic of their choice to expand and apply the knowledge and skills acquired during the Fellowship.
Country Case Studies
Country-level case studies provide more detail on specific ways that the Early Childhood Policy Academy supported policymakers to strengthen their early childhood systems:
Blogs
- Common challenges and tailored solutions: How policymakers are strengthening early learning systems across the world (April 23, 2024)
- Investing in Liberia’s human capital through early childhood education (December 6, 2022)
- Morocco's experience in ensuring quality preschool education (September 21, 2022)
- The challenges of repetition and dropout in primary school: quality early childhood education (ECE) in Senegal (May 25, 2022)
- Through the magnifying glass: Understanding the quality of ECE in South Africa (May 3, 2022)
- Measurement: The missing puzzle piece in early childhood education in North Macedonia (March 22, 2022)
- Scaling up quality early childhood education: What gets measured gets done (June 11, 2021)
- Engaging policymakers in early childhood development: Promoting joint learning to improve quality (February 15, 2022)
- Celebrating impact of the second cohort of Early Years Fellows (September 2, 2021)