Ms. Adjei is a program officer at Results for Development (R4D) for the innovation portfolio where she provides technical leadership and program management for new and ongoing projects. Supporting ecosystem-strengthening and public sector scaling, she manages existing stakeholder relationships and cultivates new country and global partnerships.

Prior to R4D, Ms. Adjei was a technical advisor at GIZ, Ghana where she provided technical assistance for the design and programmatic support of innovation hubs across the country with a pan-African focus. In this work, she built relationships with cross-sectoral partners to promote innovations and entrepreneurship. Ms. Adjei was also a trainer at ActionAid, Ghana focusing on social entrepreneurship and advocacy training for women, youth, and community groups.

Ms. Adjei holds a master’s degree in economic policy management from the University of Ghana, a BSc in business administration (banking and finance) and certification in professional consulting from the Chartered Management Institute, UK. She speaks fluent English and her native language Twi.

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As a managing director at R4D, Dr. Jones provides strategic and operational leadership for roughly half of the organization’s portfolio of programs and serves on the R4D executive team. Dr. Jones work with R4D’s practice area leads to create and fund a robust pipeline of programs, oversee the design and execution of high-quality, cross-cutting programs and she also leads efforts to ensure systematic institutional learning at R4D.

Dr. Jones is a published academic author and has written a book manuscript and journal articles on community-based health care delivery, including a 200-page sociological study of community-based care in Ghana.

Prior to joining R4D, Dr. Jones served as the president and founder of Aya Global, a philanthropic consulting practice, for seven years. In this role, she advised foundations and non-profit organizations in the global health and education fields on institutional strategy, program development and fundraising. She helped develop new portfolios for her clients, including a digital health practice and an early childhood education practice, in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

In previous roles, Dr. Jones led the Global Health portfolio at the Barr Foundation, and worked on programs that expanded access to primary health care at Pathfinder and Population Council. While working at Population Council, Dr. Jones was embedded within the Ghana Health Service/Ministry of Health to support the agency as it scaled-up the Community-Based Health and Planning Services (CHPS) model from a pilot project to robust initiatives in ten demonstration districts. Two decades later, CHPS is a global model for community-based service delivery and is at national scale in Ghana.

Dr. Jones holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, a master’s degree in public administration from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in American Studies and Africana Studies. In addition, she has held post-doctoral appointments at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Dr. Jones serves on the Board of Directors of PRX, World Education and on the Advisory Board of Nurturing Minds.

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• How are parenting programs reorienting their services in response to COVID-19?
• How are parenting programs supporting their personnel to deliver these critical services?

This brief seeks to shed light on these questions. Developed by the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative (ECWI), a multi-stakeholder global initiative co-led by Results for Development (R4D) and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA) that works to support and empower those who work directly with young children, the brief highlights common approaches parenting programs are using to continue engaging with families, including transitioning to deliver services virtually and adapting to provide enhanced psychosocial support. We use the five priority actions to support the early childhood workforce outlined in ECWI’s COVID-19 Position Statement as a light guide and explore how some parenting programs are prioritizing the health, safety, and psychosocial well-being, expanding training and guidance, and recognizing the workforce delivering these critical services. Several short case studies provide context and detail to these programs’ efforts and the brief concludes with a set of reflections on the challenges and possibilities ahead.

Authors

Kavita Hatipoglu with support from Michelle Neuman and Denise Bonsu (R4D) and Konstantina Rentzou and Zorica Trikic (ISSA)

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• What does the early childhood workforce need to know and be able to do in order to carry out their roles?
• What types of training opportunities are most effective for building the knowledge and skills that the workforce needs?
• What types of feedback does the workforce receive on their work on a daily basis?
• What financial and non-financial incentives impact the job satisfaction of personnel?

In an effort to address these questions, the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative (ECWI), a multi-stakeholder global initiative co-led by Results for Development (R4D) and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA) that works to support and empower those who work directly with young children, is carrying out a series of global landscape analyses to illustrate the size and scope of the challenges faced by the early childhood workforce, while also highlighting promising practices countries have adopted in response to these challenges. Spanning a range of roles including professionals and paraprofessionals, paid and unpaid workers, and frontline workers, supervisors, and managers, from the education, health and nutrition, social protection and child protection sectors, these analyses aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of the workforce worldwide.

Downloads

• Landscape-Analysis-Continuous Quality-Improvement.pdf (format PDF / 2 MB)
• Brief-Landscape-Analysis-Continuous-Quality-Improvement-English.pdf (format PDF / 253 KB)
• Brief-Landscape-Analysis-Continuous-Quality-Improvement-French.pdf (format PDF / 2 MB)
• Brief-Landscape-Analysis-Continuous-Quality-Improvement-Spanish.pdf (format PDF / 2 MB)

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• What does the early childhood workforce need to know and be able to do in order to carry out their roles?
• What types of training opportunities are most effective for building the knowledge and skills that the workforce needs?
• What types of feedback does the workforce receive on their work on a daily basis?
• What financial and non-financial incentives impact the job satisfaction of personnel?

In an effort to address these questions, the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative (ECWI), a multi-stakeholder global initiative co-led by Results for Development (R4D) and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA) that works to support and empower those who work directly with young children, is carrying out a series of global landscape analyses to illustrate the size and scope of the challenges faced by the early childhood workforce, while also highlighting promising practices countries have adopted in response to these challenges. Spanning a range of roles including professionals and paraprofessionals, paid and unpaid workers, and frontline workers, supervisors, and managers, from the education, health and nutrition, social protection and child protection sectors, these analyses aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of the workforce worldwide.

Downloads

• Landscape-Analysis-Working-Conditions.pdf (format PDF / 2 MB)
• Landscape-Analysis-Working-Conditions-Brief-English.pdf (format PDF / 306 KB)
• Strengthening-and-Supporting-the-Early-Childhood-Workforce-Working-Conditions-Spanish.pdf (format PDF / 2 MB)
• Strengthening-and-Supporting-the-Early-Childhood-Workforce-Working-Conditions-French.pdf (format PDF / 2 MB)

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Ms. McDougal is the controller on the finance and accounting team at Results for Development (R4D). She utilizes leadership, problem-solving, interpersonal and diplomacy skills to lead the accounting team and oversee daily accounting activities. She works closely with the chief financial officer to improve finance and accounting services at R4D.

Throughout her career, Ms. McDougal has focused on leading teams effectively, with her major accomplishments focused on working with staff to understand and learn as much about the accounting and finance process as possible.  She considers “light bulb moments” with her staff to be the most rewarding experiences in her career.  Prior to joining R4D, Ms. McDougal worked in government contracting.

Ms. McDougal holds a master’s degree in accounting from Walden University and a BS in accounting from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

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Mr. Vickers joins R4D from Plan International UK where he worked on development programs and supported the monitoring and evaluation of education and WASH programs. Prior to this, he spent six years working as a consultant on human-centered design projects in the public sector as a product owner and analyst. He worked across a range of central government departments in the UK, and helped deliver new programs, policies and services in both the education and justice sectors. Prior to his consulting work, he spent a year in Nepal as an intern at the European Commission.

Some of his career achievements (in the UK) include:

• Helping deliver a number of new digital products and services for the prisons and probation service.
• Completing ambitious research projects in central government, which service-mapped the education and justice systems, and identified opportunities for digital transformation.
• Working in small multi-disciplinary teams, tasked with designing national level policy and services for teachers and for adult education.

Mr. Vickers holds an MPhil in development studies from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. (with honors) in history from Durham University.

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This workshop served as a targeted discussion on the needs of the home visiting workforce and provided valuable insight on the integration of nurturing care into the County’s CHV services. Representatives from the national Ministry of Health, the Siaya County Government, Smart Start Siaya, and the County’s home visiting services, among others, engaged in targeted discussions to:

• Gain insight into the delivery of nurturing care by CHVs during home visits
• Increase understanding and alignment among those engaged in the policy planning, management, and delivery of these services about the role of CHVs and their needs
• Identify the strengths, weaknesses, and country priorities regarding nurturing care by CHVs which can be used to support the workforce and inform future policy decision

This report summarizes the workshop by providing a brief overview of the home visiting services for nurturing care in Siaya County, Kenya along with the structure of the workshop, and then highlights the policy recommendations and key takeaways that emerged.

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As the director of recruitment at Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Chatham leads a team responsible for hiring for all U.S.-based and international positions. He acts as a strategic partner for hiring teams, developing sourcing strategies and providing full life cycle recruiting support for candidates searches from executive to entry-level roles.

Before joining R4D, Mr. Chatham served for twelve years as senior international recruiter and global recruitment manager at PSI, an international health organization with over 8,000 staff and operations in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. While at PSI, he managed a team responsible for filling headquarters and international positions and completed short-term staffing assignments in South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Somaliland, Kenya and Nepal.

Mr. Chatham holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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As a senior fellow within the Scaling Innovation practice at Results for Development. Ms. Khan works within R4D and with the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) — a coalition of bilateral, multi-lateral and philanthropic agencies — to promote innovation as a critical driver to achieving sustainable development. She collaborates with IDIA members to increase the understanding and visibility of innovation, to encourage partnership through development of common platforms, systems and tools, and to help strengthen innovation ecosystems. She leads IDIA’s Gender and Innovation Working Group, which seeks to encourage technical, institutional and social innovation to advance gender equality. Previously at R4D, she worked in support of the UN/World Bank high-level panel on water to spur innovation in the water sector by launching two global challenges to identify breakthroughs and address inadequate water supply and sanitation facilities, and poor water data and governance policies.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Khan served as a consultant specializing in program development and knowledge management issues, working together with philanthropic, non-profit and academic institutions on social change initiatives. Programmatically, her work has focused on asset-building: developing education, skills-building and economic opportunities in marginalized communities. Projects ranged from coordinating Living Cities’ initiative to support equitable rebuilding following Hurricane Katrina to launching the Ford Foundation’s GrantCraft initiative on the practice of grant-making for scale and impact. Her interests in innovation and systems change grew from a collaboration with the Harvard Business School, where she conducted research and co-authored resources for MBA/MPA courses focused on leadership, social entrepreneurship and organizational and societal change; and earlier community development work in India, the Philippines and elsewhere.

Ms. Khan also served as the director of the U.S. Office for IIRR, an international research and training NGO focused on participatory rural development. Her interest in international development and systems change began when she worked as an engineer for AT&T and Lucent Technologies providing global telecommunications solutions to public and private sector partners in 40+ countries. Ms. Khan holds an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an MS in interdisciplinary telecommunications from the University of Colorado, and a BS in engineering from the University of New Hampshire. She speaks English and French.

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