Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge : Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book seeks to achieve a balance, describing challenges that are being faced as well as developments that are underway. It seeks a balance in terms of the voices heard, including not just voices of the North commenting on the South, but voices from the South, and in concert with the North. It seeks to provide the voices of specialists and generalists, of those from international and local organizations, from academia and the field. It seeks a diversity of views and values. Such diversity and complexity are the reality of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) today. The major focus of this book is on SSA from the Sahel south. Approximately 130 million children between birth and age 6 live in SSA. Every year 27 million children are born, and every year 4.7 million children under age 5 die. Rates of birth and of child deaths are consistently higher in SSA than in any other part of the world; the under-5 mortality rate of 163 per 1,000 is twice that of the rest of the developing world and 30 times that of industrialized countries (UNICEF 2006). Of the children who are born, 65 percent will experience poverty, 14 million will be orphans affected by HIV/AIDS directly and within their families and one-third will experience exclusion because of their gender or ethnicity.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Garcia, Marito, Pence, Alan, Evans, Judith L.
Format:	Publication biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC : World Bank 2008
Subjects:	AIDS EPIDEMIC, AIDS ORPHANS, BABY, BASIC NEEDS, BASIC SERVICES, BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING, CAREGIVERS, CHILD CARE, CHILD CARE FACILITIES, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILD HEALTH, CHILD MORTALITY, CHILD NUTRITION, CHILD POVERTY, CHILD PROTECTION, CHILD SURVIVAL, CHILD WELFARE, CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES, CHILDREN IN CONFLICT, CHILDREN IN PRESCHOOL, CHILDREN UNDER AGE, CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES, CHURCHES, CLEAN WATER, COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, CONDITIONS FOR CHILDREN, CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, CURRICULUM, DECISION MAKING, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN, DISPLACED CHILDREN, DISSEMINATION, DROPOUT, DROPOUT RATES, EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT, EARLY CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT POLICIES, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, EARLY CHILDHOOD ENVIRONMENT RATING SCALE, EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION, EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS, EARLY EDUCATION, EARLY LEARNING, ECCD, ECCE, ECD, ECD POLICIES, ECD PROGRAMS, ECERS, EDUCATION SECTOR, EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, ENROLLMENT, ENROLLMENT RATE, EXTENDED FAMILY, FAMILY HEALTH, FAMILY LIFE, FAMILY MEMBERS, FAMILY STRUCTURE, FAMILY WELFARE, FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION, GENDER, GENDER EQUALITY, GER, GIRLS, GIRLS IN SCHOOL, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, GROSS ENROLLMENT, GROSS ENROLLMENT RATES, GROSS ENROLLMENT RATIO, GROSS ENROLLMENT RATIOS, GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT, GROWTH MONITORING, HEALTH CARE, HEIGHT FOR AGE, HIV, HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURES, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEXES, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENT, ILLNESS, IMMUNIZATION, INDEXES, INFANT, INFANT MORTALITY, INFANT MORTALITY RATE, INFANT MORTALITY RATES, INFANTS, INSTRUCTION, INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, INTERNATIONAL LAW, INTERVENTIONS, IODINE DEFICIENCY, KINDERGARTENS, LABOR FORCE, LEADERSHIP, LEARNING, LEGAL STATUS, LIFE EXPECTANCY, LIFE SKILLS, LITERACY, LITERACY RATES, LIVE BIRTHS, LIVING STANDARDS, LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES, MALARIA, MALNUTRITION, MEASLES, MENTAL DEVELOPMENT, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, MORTALITY RATE, MOTHER, MOTHER-TO-CHILD, MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION, NATIONAL PLAN, NATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION, NATIONAL POLICY, NATIONAL PRIORITY, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, NUMBER OF AIDS ORPHANS, NUMBER OF CHILDREN, NUMBER OF ORPHANS, NUTRITION, OLDER CHILDREN, ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY, ORPHAN, ORPHAN ESTIMATES, ORPHAN POPULATION, ORPHANHOOD, ORPHANS, PANDEMIC, PARENT SUPPORT PROGRAMS, PARENTING, PARITY, PARTICIPATION RATES, PLAN OF ACTION, POLICY CONCERN, POLICY DEVELOPMENT, POLICY FRAMEWORK, POLICY IMPLICATIONS, POLIO, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, PRACTITIONERS, PREPRIMARY EDUCATION, PREPRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, PRESCHOOL ENROLLMENT, PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS, PRESCHOOLS, PRIMARY COMPLETION, PRIMARY COMPLETION RATES, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY EDUCATION SYSTEM, PRIMARY GRADE, PRIMARY GRADES, PRIMARY GROSS ENROLLMENT, PRIMARY GROSS ENROLLMENT RATE, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL COMPLETION, PRIMARY SCHOOL PARTICIPATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, PRIMARY YEARS, PURCHASING POWER, RADIO, REPETITION RATES, RURAL CHILDREN, SANITATION, SANITATION FACILITIES, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, SCHOOL CHILDREN, SCHOOL READINESS, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLS, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL SERVICES, SPECIAL EDUCATION, SPECIAL NEEDS, STATE UNIVERSITY, SURVIVAL RATE, TEACHER EDUCATION, TEACHERS, TETANUS, UNIVERSAL ENROLLMENT, URBANIZATION, VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY, VULNERABILITY, VULNERABLE CHILDREN, WARS, WORKING MOTHERS, WORLD CONFERENCE, WORLD CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION, WORLD SUMMIT FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG CHILD, YOUNG CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUTH,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/9054499/africas-future-africas-challenge-early-childhood-care-development-sub-saharan-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6365
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