Getting to Know your International Contacts Part 2

The article that I explored from “The Global Children’s Initiative” website titled “Zambian Early Childhood Initiative Project” is what I would like to share; because it gave me new insight and about Zambian, early childhood system.  The Zambian Project (ZECDP) was a collaborative effort to measure the effects of a ongoing anti-malaria initiative measured the development of Zambian children. The article spoke little about the “Anti-Malaria Initiative (campaign)”. To mark the full effect of the anti-malaria iniiative, the ZECDP created a tool for assessing children’s physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive development before and throughout their educational years; this was the first assessment tool in Zambia.  Zambian Child Assessment Test (ZamCAT) used  combination of child development measures with current developed assessment tools in order to provide a clear assessment of preschool children in Zambian. Although there has been countless studies, research, and data that investigates the impact of early childhood experiences in developing countries; there is practically no evidence available regarding the development, health, and educational outcomes on early childhood in Sub-Saharan Africa.  There were 1,686 children born in 2004 assessed between July and December 2010 with successful follow-up.  In 2011, another successful follow-up occurred with 1,250 of those children, follow-up scheduled for June-August 2012.  The beginning stages of this project demonstrate that comprehensive child assessments are possible within standard population-based household surveys”.

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative.            Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/