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POLICY PAPER
December 17, 2024
Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Rwanda, and Senegal invest less than 0.2 percent of GDP and about 2 percent of their education budgets on pre-primary education, below international recommendations. We recommend policies to enhance transparency, prioritize early childhood funding, and use international aid to ...
Blog Post
December 17, 2024
Childcare and early childhood development (ECD) are essential drivers of gender equity and economic resilience, yet they remain critically underfunded in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Our new CGD policy paper Childcare and Early Childhood Development Expenditures in Africa: Comparat...
Blog Post
November 07, 2024
When Brazil assumed the G20 presidency in 2024, it was encouraging to see an immediate emphasis on issues important to gender equality, including social inclusion and sustainable development. This, coupled with the advent of the new ministerial Women’s Empowerment Working Group, signaled a promising...
Blog Post
October 29, 2024
The insinuation that the informal work of bringing up families, cultures, and values is less real than the formal work of paid employment reflects a crucial mindset shift that still needs to happen. Care work is real work. It may be informal and undervalued, but it is real work.
Blog Post
October 22, 2024
Now is an opportune time for bilateral and multilateral donors to invest in early childhood development and childcare in fragile, conflict, and violence settings, as the International Development Association replenishment, IDA21, is underway. Unfortunately, the proposed IDA21 policy package reflects...
Blog Post
October 22, 2024
The Center for Global Development has been working to inform an innovative approach to addressing challenges in settings affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), which brings together the early childhood development (ECD), childcare, and gender equality sectors to center FCV investments ...
Blog Post
September 19, 2024
In an effort to drive policy change and support global coordination efforts on the care economy, a new Global Roadmap for Action on the Care Economy (GRAC) has been developed by Center for Global Development, The Asia Foundation, CIPPEC, Women Deliver, and the International Center for Research on Wo...
CGD NOTE
September 19, 2024
The Global Roadmap for Action on the Care Economy (GRAC) provides a strategic framework that maps the global care landscape and its opportunities, highlights existing data and gaps in measurement, supports coordination and de-siloing efforts, and provides insights to inform future advocacy, research...
Blog Post
May 09, 2024
As many countries around the world prepare to celebrate Mothers’ Day weekend, including in the United States, care is at the top of many people’s minds. This theme resonates from intimate household spaces to the broad corridors of global policy. The G20 is one global policy space where, each year, i...
