Planning Policies and Programs for
Education and Early Childhood Development

Projects Completed:

Planning Policies for Early Childhood Development: Guidelines for Action UNICEF, UNESCO and ADEA, Paris, 2005. (Published in English, French, Spanish and Russian.)
Final Report, Project to Support National Policy Planning for Early Childhood Development in Three Countries of West Africa, for the Working Group for Early Childhood Development, Association for the Development of Education in Africa, UNICEF/WCARO, Senegal, 2004 (Available in English and French).
Policy Analyses and Recommendations on Early Childhood Development and HIV/AIDS in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, Analyses prepared for UNICEF and the Country Support Team for ECD and HIV/AIDS, 2004.
Impact Evaluation of the Early Childhood Development Virtual University in Sub-Saharan Africa (ECDVU), World Bank report, 2005.
“Health Promotion and Early Childhood Development: Some Emerging Global Research Issues,” in Combating Disease and Promoting Health, third volume of the series, Global Forum Update on Research for Health, Pro-Book Publishing, 2006.
Formative Evaluation of Parenting Programmes in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and Kazakhstan, UNICEF, (2006).

Preparing Your Children for Success in School: A Planning Guide for Neighborhoods.
“Policy Options for Early Childhood Development” a chapter in Policymaking for Education Reform in Developing Countries, for Save the Children USA and George Washington University.
White Paper on ECD Costs and Finance with Alejandro Acosta and Robert Myers for the Consultative Group for Early Childhood Care and Development, to be published in 2007.
Study on the Early Childhood Intervention Programs of Belarus, for UNICEF.
Going to Scale: Early Childhood Development in Latin America, a study for the World Bank on how national ECD programmes go to scale in contrast to pilot programs in the same countries.