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Acknowledgements
● These profiles have been prepared by the Data and Analytics section of UNICEF, under the direction of Mark Hereward, in collaboration with Countdown to 2030. The data compilation and production was coordinated by Claudia Cappa and Nicole Petrowski, with inputs and support from Yuliang Cheng, Allysha Choudhury, Enrique Delamonica,
Chika Hayashi, Vrinda R. Mehra, Khin Wityee Oo, Jennifer Requejo and
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Cecilia Silva Venturini.
● Assistance in accessing relevant data was provided by Venturini Valeria Nesterenko and Fabio Duran Valverde of the International Labour Organization.
● The preparation of these profiles was carried out in collaboration with the Nurturing
Care for Early Childhood Development Metrics Joint Technical Working Group of the
Countdown to 2030. Members of the working group include: Maureen Black, Ties
Boerma, Pia Britto, Claudia Cappa, Bernadette Daelmans, Chris Desmond, Amanda
Devercelli, Tarun Dua, Günther Fink, Joan Lombardi, Chunling Lu, Dana Charles
McCoy, Jennifer Requejo, Linda Richter (chair), Kate Strong and Emily Vargas-Baron.
● The original design concept and production of the first set of country profiles was carried out by Jive Media Africa. Design modifications, data updates and profiles for 47 additional countries were undertaken by the HUB Collective in 2019.
● The first phase of the early childhood development Countdown work was hosted by the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Foundation’s Centre of
Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, under the directorship of Linda Richter.
● The first phase was funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. This phase of profile development was made possible through core funding from UNICEF.
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Contents
Acknowledgements 2 Introduction 4
How the profiles were developed 4
Countries 5
Indicators 6
How the profiles are organized 6
Next steps 7 Country profiles 8 Technical appendix 147