Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge : Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book seeks to achieve a balance, describing challenges that are being faced as well as developments that are underway. It seeks a balance in terms of the voices heard, including not just voices of the North commenting on the South, but voices...
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Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2012
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/9054499/africas-future-africas-challenge-early-childhood-care-development-sub-saharan-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6365 |
Summary: | This book seeks to achieve a balance,
describing challenges that are being faced as well as
developments that are underway. It seeks a balance in terms
of the voices heard, including not just voices of the North
commenting on the South, but voices from the South, and in
concert with the North. It seeks to provide the voices of
specialists and generalists, of those from international and
local organizations, from academia and the field. It seeks a
diversity of views and values. Such diversity and complexity
are the reality of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) today. The major
focus of this book is on SSA from the Sahel south.
Approximately 130 million children between birth and age 6
live in SSA. Every year 27 million children are born, and
every year 4.7 million children under age 5 die. Rates of
birth and of child deaths are consistently higher in SSA
than in any other part of the world; the under-5 mortality
rate of 163 per 1,000 is twice that of the rest of the
developing world and 30 times that of industrialized
countries (UNICEF 2006). Of the children who are born, 65
percent will experience poverty, 14 million will be orphans
affected by HIV/AIDS directly and within their families and
one-third will experience exclusion because of their gender
or ethnicity. |
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