Centre-based day care for children younger than five years of age in low- and middle-income countries

Brown, Taylor; Urk, Felix C van; Waller, Rebecca; Mayo‐Wilson, Evan

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd010543.pub2

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“…For example, in the education sector, child development can be supported through various early learning opportunities, including early child day care, 67,68 preschools, and parent education. 59,69 Interventions can also be provided through child and social protection services, including cash transfer programmes.…”

Section: Essential Elements To Accelerate Scale-up Of Programmes For mentioning

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Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development

Richter

Daelmans

Lombardi³

et al. 2017

The Lancet

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Building on long-term benefits of early intervention (Paper 2 of this Series) and increasing commitment to early childhood development (Paper 1 of this Series), scaled up support for the youngest children is essential to improving health, human capital, and wellbeing across the life course. In this third paper, new analyses show that the burden of poor development is higher than estimated, taking into account additional risk factors. National programmes are needed. Greater political prioritisation is core to scale-up, as are policies that afford families time and financial resources to provide nurturing care for young children. Effective and feasible programmes to support early child development are now available. All sectors, particularly education, and social and child protection, must play a role to meet the holistic needs of young children. However, health provides a critical starting point for scaling up, given its reach to pregnant women, families, and young children. Starting at conception, interventions to promote nurturing care can feasibly build on existing health and nutrition services at limited additional cost. Failure to scale up has severe personal and social consequences. Children at elevated risk for compromised development due to stunting and poverty are likely to forgo about a quarter of average adult income per year, and the cost of inaction to gross domestic product can be double what some countries currently spend on health. Services and interventions to support early childhood development are essential to realising the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Section: Essential Elements To Accelerate Scale-up Of Programmes For mentioning

confidence: 99%

Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development

Richter

Daelmans

Lombardi³

et al. 2017

The Lancet

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645

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“… 9 While day care has the potential for significant impact on a wider range of health outcomes, there has been limited research in this area. A Cochrane systematic review 20 assessing the impact of day care in LIC on diarrhoea and respiratory infections found only one study eligible for inclusion. This study found centre-based day care in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania/Zanzibar (256 children) had positive effects on the cognitive development of children, but did not report effects on children’s psychosocial development, the incidence or prevalence of infectious diseases, parental employment or household income.…”

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Protocol to develop sustainable day care for children aged 1–4 years in disadvantaged urban communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Das

Elsey

Shawon³

et al. 2018

BMJ Open

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IntroductionLack of safe, stimulating and health-promoting environments for children under-5 hinders their physical, social and cognitive development, known as early childhood development (ECD). Improving ECD impacts on children, and can improve educational attainment for girls, who often care for younger siblings, and employment prospects for mothers. Developing and evaluating the impacts of ECD programmes within childcare needs to assess a range of social, health, educational and economic impacts, including women’s empowerment.Children living in slums are at high risk of poor early development and holistic, sustainable interventions are needed to address ECD in these contexts. This study will be undertaken in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city where over 8.5 million inhabitants live in slums. In collaboration with government, non-governmental organisations and communities, we are developing and testing a sustainable day-care model for low-income communities in Dhaka.Methodology and analysisA sequential mixed methods approach is being used in the study, with qualitative work exploring quantitative findings. Two hundred households with children under-5 will be surveyed to determine day-care needs and to assess ECD (parent-reported and direct assessment). The feasibility of four ECD measuring tools Caregiver-Reported Early Development Index, Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes, The Early Human Capability Index and International Development and Early Learning Assessment will be assessed quantitatively and qualitatively. Qualitative methods will help understand demand and perceptions of day care while mothers work. Participatory action research will be used to develop a locally appropriate and potentially sustainable model of day care for under-5 children. A ward in the south of Dhaka has been selected for the study as this typifies communities with slum and non-slum households living next to each other, allowing us to explore potential for better-off household to subsidise day care for poorer households.Ethics and disseminationFindings will be published and inform decision makers at the national, regional and the local actors in order to embed the study into the policy and practice on childcare and ECD. Ethical approvals for this study were obtained from the School of Medicine Research Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Leeds (ref: MREC16-106) and the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (ref: BMRCAIREC/20 I 6-20 I 9 I 250).

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“…Research on ECC and maternal employment in sub-Saharan Africa is sparse and draws mixed conclusions (Leroy 201;Brown et al 2014). In Kenya, the cost of local day cares is negatively associated with maternal employment (Lokshin et al 2014), but another study found no significant association between the price or proximity of local child care and women's employment in Accra, Ghana (Quisumbing et al 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Mothers are likely to be reluctant to send their children to centers if they hear anecdotal reports of unsanitary conditions, minimal food provision, limited learning and educational materials, and, in extreme cases, neglect and abuse (Githinji and Kanga 2011). Whether the lack of affordable child care options or concerns about low-quality services restricts maternal employment and earnings is largely unknown (Leroy 2011;Brown et al 2014).…”

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The Effects of Child Care Subsidies on Women’s Economic Opportunities in the Slums of Nairobi

Clark¹

2015

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

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Centre-based day care for children younger than five years of age in low- and middle-income countries

Cited by 29 publications

References 83 publications

Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development

Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development

Protocol to develop sustainable day care for children aged 1–4 years in disadvantaged urban communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh

The Effects of Child Care Subsidies on Women’s Economic Opportunities in the Slums of Nairobi

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