Research Catalog

Title

Africa's future, Africa's challenge : early childhood care and development in Sub-Saharan Africa / editors, Marito Garcia, Alan Pence, Judith L. Evans.

Publication

Washington, DC : World Bank, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Garcia, Marito, 1951-
• Pence, Alan R., 1948-
• Evans, Judith L.

Description

xxix, 525 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Directions in development. Human development

Uniform Title

Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development

Subject

• Health Policy
• Health Planning
• Early Intervention, Educational
• Child, Preschool
• Child Health Services
• Child Welfare
• Child care > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Early childhood education > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Child development > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Africa South of the Sahara
• Africa, Sub-Saharan

Genre/Form

• Statistics
• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Statistics.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The state of young children in sub-Saharan Africa / Marito Garcia, Gillian Virata, and Erika Dunkelberg -- Positioning ECD nationally : trends in selected African countries / Agnes Akosua Aidoo -- Early childhood care and education in sub-Saharan Africa : what would it take to meet the millennium development goals? / Adriana Jaramillo and Alain Mingat -- Brain development and ECD : a case for investment / Mary Eming Young and Fraser Mustard -- New threats to early childhood development : children affected by HIV/AIDS / Jodie Fonseca [and others] -- ECD in Africa : a historical perspective / Larry Prochner and Margaret Kabiru -- (Mis)understanding ECD in Africa : the force of local and global motives / A. Bame Nsamenang -- Fathering : the role of men in raising children in Africa-- holding up the other half of the sky / Linda M. Richter and Robert Morrell -- ECD policy : a comparative analysis in Ghana, Mauritius, and Namibia / J.K.A. Boakye [and others] --^
• Participatory ECD policy planning in Francophone West Africa / Emily Vargas-Barón -- Responding to the challenge of meeting the needs of children under 3 in Africa / Kofi Marfo [and others] -- Introducing preprimary classes in Africa : opportunities and challenges / Linda Biersteker [and others] -- Inclusive education : a Mauritian response to the inherent rights of the child / Gilberte Chung Kim Chung and Cyril Dalais -- Parenting challenges for the changing African family / Judith L. Evans, Chalizamudzi Elizabeth Matola and Jolly P.T. Nyeko -- ECD and HIV/AIDS : the newest programming and policy challenge / Patrice L. Engle and Erika Dunkelberg with Shireen Issa -- Supporting young children in conflict and postconflict situations : child protection and psychosocial well-being in Angola / Michael Wessells and Carlinda Monteiro -- Strategic communication in early childhood development programs : the case of Uganda / Cecilia Cabañero-Verzosa and Nawsheen Elaheebocus --^
• The synergy of nutrition and ECD interventions in sub-Saharan Africa / Harold Alderman and Patrice L. Engle -- The impact of ECD programs on maternal employment and older children's school attendance in Kenya / Michael M. Lokshin, Elena Glinskaya and Marito Garcia -- Madrasa early childhood development program : making a difference / Peter Mwaura and Bishara T. Mohamed -- Linking policy discourse to everyday life in Kenya : impacts of neoliberal policies on early education and childrearing / Elizabeth Swadener [and others] -- Community-based approaches that work in eastern and southern Africa / Jane E. Lucas [and others] -- Can early childhood programs be financially sustainable in Africa? / Adriana Jaramillo and Alain Mingat -- A tri-part approach to promoting ECD capacity in Africa : ECD seminars, international conferences, and ECDVU / Alan Pence with Abeba Habtom and Francis R.W. Chalamada.

ISBN

• 9780821368862
• 0821368869
• 9780821370544
• 0821370545

LCCN

^^2007008823

OCLC

• 85830712
• SCSB-12344681

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library