![]() Launched last June, the competition is designed to identify a project with the potential to deliver real progress toward solving a critical problem affecting people, a place, or the entire planet and will award that project a grant of $100 million, to be distributed over a number of years. MacArthur Foundation has announced the semi-finalists in its global 100&Change competition. A global data collaborative, convened around an international multi-stakeholder platform such as the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, could mobilize regional efforts for the collection of data on vulnerable children including those in institutional care across countries.The John D. ![]() It is thus critical to collect sex- and age-disaggregated data on children systematically and continuously, and to promote development of innovative methods for collecting such data. This is a gross underestimate, because many institutions are unregistered and lack either the capacity or willingness to report on their activities. At least 8 million children worldwide are living in orphanages. ![]() : Children living outside of family care, including institutionalized children, are most likely to be missed in national statistics, although those vulnerable children would gain the most from ECD interventions. Identify a new monitoring system for quantifying institutionalized children.An international community of practice could further serve to strengthen partnership between organizations and governments, which is critical for implementing any policies and interventions in situ. Lessons learned form a crucial knowledge base that helps other countries tackle similar issues and develop guidelines and best practices for alternative care systems. Countries with ongoing efforts on deinstitutionalization need to share not just scientific evidence but also their experiences in ending institutional care. : Deinstitutionalization has not yet risen to the national agenda in most countries, especially outside of Europe. Convene international communities around the task of deinstitutionalization.To provide specialized policy trainings for ECD workers on children outside of family including institutionalized children, we can utilize global education platform such as the exciting step put forward by the Sustainable Development Goals Academy that offers free online courses by world experts on different areas of sustainable development. Public campaigns should facilitate changes in people’s attitude and consequently in their common choice to donate to orphanages. : ‘Myths’ related to institutional care persist among experts and the public alike and continue to sustain the practice of institutional care. Support education on deinstitutionalization.One ECD intervention with strong evidence for cost-effectiveness in improving family-based nurturing care includes parent-directed programs especially for 0-3 years olds with a combined focus on breastfeeding, complementary feeding and nutrition, and early stimulation and responsiveness. Specifically, we may focus on preventing unnecessary family-child separation among vulnerable families, helping institutionalized children to reunite with families, and supporting quality family-like alternative care by supporting adoption and foster care. Using this as a guiding principle, governments and stakeholders should reroute their funding pipeline towards protecting and advocating family-based nurturing care. Scientific evidence strongly supports that nurturing care mediates development of key brain regions during critical periods, thereby laying a groundwork for one’s lifetime. Here, caretakers who are committed to a lifelong relationship with a child provide a safe and stable environment – a care setting that most closely resembles a family. : We now have strong evidence that family-based nurturing care is a necessary condition for ECD to reach its full potential. Advocate family-based nurturing care as the best environment for ECD.
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