Building and Strengthening National Systems for Early Childhood Development

Handbook of Early Childhood Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vargas Barón, Emily ^a  

^a The RISE Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Early childhood; Evaluation and advocacy; Implementation; Monitoring; Multisectoral coordination and integration; Policy planning; Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923002967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199922994.003.0024     Document Type: Chapter

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