Getting to know your international contacts-Part 2

     The Zambian Early Childhood Development Project was launched in 2009 with the objective to 
not only identify the key determinants for child development in the medium- to long-run in a 
sub-Saharan African context, but also to generate the first comprehensive assessment of child 
development in Zambia today. As has been pointed out by many researchers in this field, measuring child development is a complicated task: child development is a multi-faceted construct, and the multitude of developmental domains explored in the literature makes it difficult to identify the right tool for child assessment. The task is challenging in even the most tightly-controlled and technologically advanced testing environments in developed countries; it is even more complicated for field researchers within the developing world, where societal norms differ substantially across regions 
and change rapidly over time. In this project, we have made a major effort to combine as many 
measures and aspects of child development as possible in a single survey tool, while ensuring 
that the tool is appropriate for, and respectful of, local culture. The results of the first such 
comprehensive assessment are presented in this report.  From a policy and child developmental perspective, the results of this study highlight the large  differences among Zambian pre-school children both within and across regions. We hope that the data collected as part of this project as well as future work in this area will not only improve our understanding of child development in this context, but also help identify key interventions towards improved outcomes in a rapidly changing developing world (Zambian Early Childhood Development Project)."  Zambia children are facedwith so many obsicles including diseases  in their early years.  The main factor in this study that affects a child's development is their economic status.  Most children live in poor, unsaitary homes with out even clean drinkning water.  
       " The Global Children's Intiative,  launched Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância, its first major programmatic effort outside the United States. In collaboration with local experts, this project aims to use the science of child health and development to guide stronger policies and larger investments to benefit young children and their families in Brazil. 
This program with other organizations engage in the following activities: 

• Building a scientific agenda and community of scholars around early child development;
• Synthesizing and translating scientific knowledge for application to social policy. This will include working with the Center’s longtime partner organization, Frameworks Institute, to effectively communicate the science of child development in the Brazilian cultural context;
• Strengthening leadership around early childhood development through an executive leadership courses for policymakers;
• Translating and adapting the Center’s existing print and multimedia resources for a Brazilian audience (Applying the Science of Early Childhood in Brazil)".

Social Economic status affects how a child develops no matter what region of the world they live in.  This is a global issue and the local, state and federal goverments need to make sure that their are policies in place and proper funding for early childhood educational programs.