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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.

Appendix B

Workshop Agenda

Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally (iYCG)
Workshop 4: Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate
Investments for Children

Held in partnership with the
Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion and
Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lecture Theater
Wu Yee Sun College
Chinese University of Hong Kong
March 14 and 15, 2015

Workshop Objectives

Discuss the science and economics of coordinating investments in children and their caregivers using existing platforms across areas of health, education, nutrition, and social protection.

  1. Identify and define a set of platforms that include settings, such as schools and community-based centers as well as other types of platforms such as community outreach, child rights, and funding streams.
    1. Examples will be drawn from low, middle, and high income countries and focus on vulnerable populations, such as children who are indigenous, migrating, or with disabilities.
  2. Highlight public and private sector efforts in financing, governance, and accountability.
    1. Uncover systems and governance issues that facilitate or create barriers to coordinating investments and service delivery.
    2. Present data on costing and financing service integration within existing platforms.
Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
  1. Explore questions about what it takes to set up, implement, and scale integrated or coordinated services within existing platforms.
    1. Special attention will be paid to diverse cultural contexts within which children and families access and receive services.

Planning Committee

Pamela Collins, U.S. National Institute of Mental Health

Divya Lata, Plan International

Albert Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chemba Raghavan, UNICEF

Nirmala Rao, University of Hong Kong

Lorraine Sherr, University College, London

Andy Shih, Autism Speaks

Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University

Saturday, March 14, 2015

5:30 pm Welcome
  Rance Lee, Master of Wu Yee Sun College,
  Chinese University of Hong Kong
   
5:35 pm Keynote Talks
  Chow Chun Bong, University of Hong Kong
  Helia Molina, Past Minister of Health, Chile, and Consultant
   
  Discussant
  Sophia Chan, Food and Health Bureau, Government of Hong Kong
   
7:00 pm Adjourn

Sunday, March 15, 2015

8:00 am Networking Breakfast
   
8:30 am Welcome
  Kimber Bogard, Director, Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally
   
Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
8:45 am Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally (iYCG) Overview
  Zulfiqar Bhutta, SickKids Toronto and the Aga Khan
  University, iYCG Co-Chair
  Ann Masten, University of Minnesota, iYCG Co-Chair
   
9:00 am Workshop Goals and Objectives
  Albert Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Workshop Co-Chair
  Andy Shih, Autism Speaks, Workshop Co-Chair
   
9.15 am SESSION 1: Perspectives on Coordination and Integration of Early Childhood Development Programs and Policies
  Objective: Discuss coordination and integration of services, programs, policies, systems, and investments across sectors, particularly using existing platforms.
 
  • Jan van Ravens, Affiliated with Yale School of Medicine
  • Emily Vargas-Barón, The RISE Institute
   
  Moderated by Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University
   
10:30 am Break
   
10:45 am BREAKOUT SESSIONS
 

1. Barriers to financing investments across sectors

  • Nicholas Burnett, Results for Development
  • Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University (moderator)
   
 

2. Harnessing the transformative power of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) to advance disability rights

  • Divya Lata, Plan International
  • Chemba Raghavan, UNICEF (moderator)
   
 

3. Preliminary findings from the East Asia-Pacific Early Child Development Scales (EAP-ECDS)

  • Nirmala Rao, University of Hong Kong
  • Karlee Silver, Grand Challenges Canada (moderator)
   
11:40 am Report Out
   
12:00 pm Lunch
   
Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
1:00 pm SESSION 2: Coordinating Investment in Children Across Sectors from a Policy Perspective
  Objective: Identify governance, financing (both public and private), and accountability issues that facilitate or create barriers to providing a set of coordinated/integrated services for children at the subnational and local levels.
 
  • Hailiang Guo, China Women’s Development Foundation
  • Yasmin Hussain, Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization
  • Howard Sobel, World Health Organization
   
  Moderated by Andy Shih, Autism Speaks
   
2:00 pm SESSION 3: Integrated Services Come Together on the Ground: Examples of Platforms and Their Unique Contexts
  Objective: Discuss how to set up, implement, and scale integrated/ coordinated services in the areas of health, education, nutrition, social protection within existing platforms.
 
  • Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, BRAC
  • Zulfiqar Bhutta, SickKids Toronto and the Aga Khan University
  • Angela Diaz, Mount Sinai Hospital
   
  Moderated by Pamela Collins, U.S. National Institute of Mental Health
   
3:00 pm Break
   
3:30 pm SESSION 4: Issues in Program Development, Implementation, and Sustainability
  Objective: Identify methods, measures, and outcomes of costing and financing service integration within existing platforms.
 
  • Emma Pearson, University of Brunei
  • Min Zhou, Nanyang Technological University
  • Najma Shaikh, Kheth’Impilo
   
  Moderated by Nirmala Rao, University of Hong Kong
Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
4:30 pm SESSION 5: Addressing Inequality with Vulnerable Populations
  Objective: Examine integration for vulnerable children in existing platforms.
 
  • Claire Diana Runciman, Australian Nurse–Family Partnership Program
  • Nicholas Burnett, Results for Development
  • Kalana Peiris, Plan International
   
  Moderated by Amina Abubakar, Centre for Geographic
  Medicine (Coast), KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research
  Programme, Kilifi, Kenya
   
5:30 pm Closing Remarks
  Albert Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
  Workshop Co-Chair
  Andy Shih, Autism Speaks, Workshop Co-Chair
   
6:00 pm Adjourn
Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Using Existing Platforms to Integrate and Coordinate Investments for Children: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and Wu Yee Sun College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21799.
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