Global research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era : a CHNRI exercise Early childhood development

dc.contributor.authorTomlinson, Mark (Mark R.)en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDarmstadt, Gary L.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorYousafzai, Aisha K.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDaelmans, Bernadetteen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBritto, Piaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorGordon, Sarah L.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorTablante, Elizabethen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDua, Tarunen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-15T11:58:41Z
dc.date.available2021-10-15T11:58:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionCITATION: Tomlinson, M., et al. 2019. Global research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era : a CHNRI exercise. Journal of Global Health, 9(2):020703, doi:10.7189/jogh.09.020703.
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dc.description.abstractBackground: Approximately 250 million children under the age of five in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) will not achieve their developmental potential due to poverty and stunting alone. Investments in programming to improve early childhood development (ECD) have the potential to disrupt the cycle of poverty and therefore should be prioritised. Support for ECD has increased in recent years. Nevertheless, donors and policies continue to neglect ECD, in part from lack of evidence to guide policy makers and donors about where they should focus policies and programmes. Identification and investment in research is needed to overcome these constraints and in order to achieve high quality implementation of programmes to improve ECD. Methods: The Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) priority setting methodology was applied in order to assess research priorities for improving ECD. A group of 348 global and local experts in ECD-related research were identified and invited to generate research questions. This resulted in 406 research questions which were categorised and refined by study investigators into 54 research questions across six thematic goals which were evaluated using five criteria: answerability, effectiveness, feasibility, impact, and effect on equity. Research options were ranked by their final research priority score multiplied by 100. Results: The top three research priority options from the LMIC experts came from the third thematic goal of improving the impact of interventions, whereas the top three research priority options from high-income country experts came from different goals: improving the integration of interventions, increasing the understanding of health economics and social protection strategies, and improving the impact of interventions. Conclusion: The results of this process highlight that priorities for future research should focus on the need for services and support to parents to provide nurturing care, and the training of health workers and non-specialists in implementation of interventions to improve ECD. Three of the six thematic goals of the present priority setting centred on interventions (ie, improving impact, implementation of interventions and improving the integration of interventions). In order to achieve higher coverage through sustainable interventions to improve ECD with equitable reach, interventions should be integrated and not be sector driven.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://jogha.org/documents/issue201902/jogh-09-020703.htm
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent19 pages ; illustrations
dc.identifier.citationTomlinson, M., et al. 2019. Global research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era : a CHNRI exercise. Journal of Global Health, 9(2):020703, doi:10.7189/jogh.09.020703
dc.identifier.issn2047-2986 (online)
dc.identifier.issn2047-2978 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.7189/jogh.09.020703
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123237
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherInternational Society of Global Health
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dc.subjectEarly childhood development -- Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectEarly childhood educationen_ZA
dc.subjectCHNRI methoden_ZA
dc.titleGlobal research priorities to accelerate programming to improve early childhood development in the sustainable development era : a CHNRI exercise Early childhood developmenten_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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