Informing Policy, Practice and Public Opinion
NCPI Executive Leadership Program in Early Childhood Development The Executive Leadership Program in Early Childhood Development (ELP) immerses policymakers, public managers and changemakers in the science, economics, and public policy of early childhood development and prepares them to advance ECD agendas in Brazil.
The program begins with a week at Harvard in which participants learn about ECD through the lenses of neuroscience, psychology, economics, public policy, evaluation, design thinking and leadership. The schedule includes site visits and group work sessions facilitated by Brazilian technical advisors. At end of the week, groups propose an action plan
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Participants have completed the program,
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ACTION PLAN DEVELOPMENT 3 MONTHS
WORKSHOP AT INSPER 2 DAYS
Over the next few months, the action plan groups work with one another and their technical advisers to further develop their plans, which maybe aim to strengthen existing ECD policies and services or to start something new.
The program concludes with a workshop in São Paulo in which participants dive deeper into the local context in sessions with Brazilian experts, present their action plans and use the feedback from their colleagues for fine-tuning.
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of which come from Brazil
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COURSE AT HARVARD 1 WEEK
ACTION PLANS were developed through the program
