This webinar focuses on early childhood growth and development, an important topic that includes issues of health, nutrition and education. Participants discussed how journalists can use measurements of children's health and development to report on poverty and the negative, lasting impacts into adulthood. (Webinar ran live March 17, 2016)
Experts: Leslie K. Elder, a World Bank Senior Nutrition Specialist in the Health, Nutrition and Population Group + Emanuela Galasso, a World Bank Senior Economist in the Development Research Group
Moderator: Brenda Wilson, former NPR health journalist and International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Knight Fellow
Full webinar:
Early Childhood Development (1:12:49)
Quick clips:
- How can journalists and policy experts work together? (1:06)
- Are there stories that go unreported about early childhood health in Africa? (5:04)
- Recap of impactAFRICA webinar — Surviving and Thriving: Early Childhood Development (2:20)
Resources mentioned in this Webinar:
Slides:
About the webinars
SIEF partnered with Code for Africa and the International Center for Journalists to produce a webinar series to improve journalists’ understanding of key development issues being reported on in low-income countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. These webinars provide journalists with background information to help them more effectively report on education, health, early childhood development and water and sanitation issues, using evidence from impact evaluation research. The webinars provide reporting resources and give participants the opportunity to ask questions.