In 2021, WORLD formed an advisory group of leaders from civil society, intergovernmental organizations, and research-based institutions to help guide a global initiative on measuring returns to investments in early childhood in lower- and middle-income countries. The group, supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, provides input on best practices for developing and using rigorous causal evidence of what feasible, actionable change at scale could do to transform individual lives and national economies today and into the future.
We are immeasurably grateful to the advisory group for its contributions:
- Gary Barker, CEO and Founder, Promundo
- Aluisio J.D. Barros, Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
- Jere Behrman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- Yehualashet Mekonen, Director, African Child Observatory Programme, African Child Policy Forum
- Verónica Montúfar, Equalities Officer, Public Services International
- Rajakumari Michaelsamy, Program Manager, Early Childhood Care and Education, Right to Education Initiative
- Faiza Mohamed, Africa Regional Director, Equality Now
- Deprose Muchena, Regional Director, East and Southern Africa, Amnesty International
- Arijit Nandi, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Institute for Health and Social Policy, and Interim Director, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University
- Dominic Richardson, Chief, Social and Economic Policy, Office of Research - Innocenti, UNICEF
- Wessel Van Den Berg, Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, Sonke Gender Justice
- Shekufeh Zonji, Global Technical Lead, ECDAN (Early Childhood Development Action Network)
