Join us to launch the World Bank’s new report, Better Jobs and Brighter Futures: Investing in Childcare to Build Human Capital. The report highlights the transformative potential of investments in childcare to increase women’s employment and productivity, create new jobs, improve child outcomes, drive economic growth and support a more resilient and inclusive recovery from the pandemic.
The event will include an opening by Mamta Murthi, Human Development VP, and a short presentation on the report followed by a panel discussion with World Bank Directors from Education, Social Protection and Gender, policymakers, childcare providers and other experts on the challenges with childcare worldwide and how countries can support families to access quality, affordable childcare.
Join the event to get answers to these 3 questions:- Why is childcare key for building human capital?
- What is the status of childcare provision worldwide?
- What do governments need to do to ensure families have access to quality, affordable childcare that meets their needs, especially the most vulnerable families.
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DETAILS
- DATE: March 4, 2021
- TIME: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST
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from Florencia Lopez Boo to everyone: 9:12 AM
Contragts for this work! Could you share the paper in the chat please? Thanks!
from Ella Victoria Humphry to all attendees: 9:12 AM
The full paper can be accessed at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35062
from Florencia Lopez Boo to everyone: 9:13 AM
Thanks!
from Ella Victoria Humphry to all attendees: 9:14 AM
You're welcome. The event page also has a link to the paper as well as additional paper resources, including translated versions, a short video and blogs: www.worldbank.org/childcarereport More will be added to this in the coming days
from Dominique LALLEMENT to all attendees: 9:24 AM
Have you looked at the trend in men becoming childcare providers?
from Abir Chebaro to everyone: 9:25 AM
geographical location affects affordability and access to childcare
from George Owino to everyone: 9:27 AM
We hope we can be able to receive the slides after the presentation
from Isang Awah to all attendees: 9:30 AM
Fantastic presentation. I hope we will get recordings
from christopher macrae to all attendees: 9:30 AM
very useful - are there any circulation lists/blodg/zooms for those whowant to share practices - i am interested i sharing fazle abed childcare approaches - after 15 visitsto bangldesh i unerstand lego and tencent partners are replicating in many countries -happy to share maps chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk www.2025report.com washington dc and glasgow uni
from George Owino to everyone: 9:31 AM
Thanks for a wonderful presentation
from Meera Shekar to everyone: 9:32 AM
Well done Amanda and team! Excellent job.
from Tina-Marie Assi to everyone: 9:32 AM
Thank you for a terrific presentation
from Lynette Okengo to all attendees: 9:33 AM
Excellent presentation!!!
from Tindara Addabbo to all attendees: 9:33 AM
Thanks a lot for the clear presentation!
from Amanda Epstein Devercelli to all attendees: 9:35 AM
Full report is available here www.worldbank.org/childcarereport
from Amanda Epstein Devercelli to all attendees: 9:35 AM
exec summary is available in French and Spanish so far, with more languages coming!
from Carina Lupica to everyone: 9:35 AM
Congrats for this well documented and detailed document and presentation. Both very useful!
webex notes taken launch 3/4/from Amanda Epstein Devercelli to all attendees: 9:36 AM
we wil find a way to get the PPT up on the report page too.
from Amanda Epstein Devercelli to all attendees: 9:36 AM
thanks everyone for these kind remarks!
1 Caren, and thanks to the team for this super insightful and comprehensive report and presentation
from Caren Grown to all attendees: 9:41 AM
Establishing clear career paths and professional growth is critical to improving quality and raising wages!
from Joe Qian to everyone: 9:43 AM
Please find the news release for the report which has the video embedded as well as a link to the full report: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/03/04/nearly-350-million-children-lack-quality-childcare-in-the-world
from Caren Grown to all attendees: 9:47 AM
Parental leave is critical - see our new Women Business and the Law Report, released just last week at: https://wbl.worldbank.org/en/wbl
from Moses Abiero to all attendees: 9:48 AM
very good points especially inclusion of ChildCare in Social Protection Innitiatives as one of the stratetegies of improving access
from Dominique LALLEMENT to all attendees: 9:49 AM
Thanks Michael for the information on mobile crèches in Burkiina Faso and including childcare in public works program, which answered one of my questions for 'infrstructure programs'. I hope these are well documented in the report so that I can share them with my teams.
from Dominique LALLEMENT to all attendees: 9:51 AM
Do the figure of 349 million children not having access to childcare covers ages 0-5 or 0-3 (pre-school).
from Katy Anis to everyone: 9:53 AM
Fantastic presentation! Implementing these efforts will have profound effect! However, I liked how you raised some of the fundamental conceptual questions. For several millennia it has been families that do child care, who shape who children become, how culture is transmitted, how values that are imparted, provide early exposure to families’ livelihoods that in previous centuries provided a kind of apprenticing. As the world’s women have gone into the workforce, no one has gone home…. How can grandparents and older family members time, caring, and contributions be built upon? How can we train or upgrade skills of family members? How can we change how economies are organized so that not all members of the family need to work, or… better yet so that contribution to child care is quantified as an economic contribution to the home and an economic contribution to the GDP. These are not short term questions with quick solutions but more longer long term systemic questions to raise…..
from Rachel Hinton to all attendees: 9:57 AM
To Philip - there is excellent work going on with the SPACE programme on cash transfers in C-19 context
from Meera Shekar to everyone: 9:57 AM
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from Caren Grown to all attendees: 9:57 AM
Apologies but I have to go to a Board meeting - wish I could stay to listen to our other panelists!
from Kathy Stohr to everyone: 9:59 AM
Great webinar--so inspriational to hear from all parts of the globe about this issue that is so pressing for all of us.
from Rachel Hinton to all attendees: 9:59 AM
Thank you for this excellent report and great speakers
from Ella Victoria Humphry to all attendees: 9:59 AM
Thank you everyone for these great comments and questions. The team will try to follow up on these after the event but please feel free to contact Frances Beaton-Day fbowen@worldbank.org if you have any further questions or comments.
from christopher macrae to all attendees: 10:00 AM
is there a case study of sabrina- how do mommapreneurs make profit on $1 a day fees
from Florencia Lopez Boo to everyone: 10:01 AM
Thanks for the presentation and for panelist insights. Above all, thanks for highlighting the importance of quality that is what really drives the impacts on child development.
rom Florencia Lopez Boo to everyone: 10:01 AM
Thanks for the presentation and for panelist insights. Above all, thanks for highlighting the importance of quality that is what really drives the impacts on child development.
from Florence Naluyinda - Kitabire to everyone: 10:02 AM
great example from Kidogo
from Esther Goh to everyone: 10:02 AM
I agree. This is a great conversation on the quality - financing dichotomy. Kudos to Amanda and Frances on this publication! I hope we can keep this conversation in the limelight.
from Helen Elsey to everyone: 10:03 AM
Fantastic points Sabrina - government funding is vital to ensure sustainability and quality
from Meera Shekar to everyone: 10:03 AM
Thanks again -- excellent session. I also really want to emphasise the issue of maternity leave as part of the child-care opportunities. We have estimated costs and benefits of maternity leave --albeit only in the formal sector for now. It is important for all of us to push this agenda through the informal sector as well in order to boost not just women's workforce partiicpation, but also their own health and welfare, as well as of course the first 1000 days of a child's life that is so critical for nutrition, early brain development and future productivity and human capital.
from Tindara Addabbo to all attendees: 10:04 AM
Yes I agree it is a pity that I have to leave now. In Italy there was an interesting programme I am aware of involving and training mothers in poorest areas of Naples called Nidi di Mamme having an important direct effect on empowering mothers and increasing the opportunity for families to access services of good quality. Thanks a lot for the webinar really stimulating.
from Dominique LALLEMENT to all attendees: 10:05 AM
Just a reminder of history: it took 17 years for the World Bank to finally agree to open the Child Care Center! So encouraging to see that the World Bank is moving big times on this critical issue.
from Rob Hughes to everyone: 10:08 AM
Thanks Amanda, Fran and team for a wonderful report; really vital contribution to this long neglected agenda. It's really exciting to see so much energy and ambition around addressing the global childcare crisis. I hope we can (perhaps working with/through ECDAN and/or the WBG ELP) build an active community of practice/knowledge sharing on this.
rom Dominique LALLEMENT to all attendees: 10:09 AM
Has the World Bank considered putting mandatory childcare provision in procurement documents for infrastructure construction (of whatever type: energy, roads, water supply, telecoms etc.). Is the Bank working on this with the ILO ?
