Putting Home-Based Childcare on the Global Agenda
About Event
Home-based childcare is where most young children around the world are actually cared for, yet it remains underfunded and largely invisible in global conversations on childcare, early childhood development, and the care economy. From a family member watching neighborhood children in a refugee camp to a licensed childminder in London, home-based childcare spans an enormous range of contexts and deserves recognition to match its scale.
Can the evidence, the funders, and the policy moment align to change that?
Join us for a program that puts the evidence for home-based childcare front and center, alongside the funders and practitioners shaping what comes next: what makes home-based childcare effective, why it remains underfunded and underrecognized, and what it will take to secure real investment and policy support.
Speakers include:
Joan Lombardi, Adjunct Professor and Principal Advisor, Stanford Center for Early Childhood
Representatives from the Global Home-Based Childcare Alliance, presenting evidence from their home-based childcare programs across high- and low-income contexts
Home-based childcare provider
Who this is for
Funders and development finance actors interested in childcare, early childhood development, and women's economic empowerment
Policymakers and global institutions shaping the childcare and ECD agenda
Practitioners and researchers working on childcare
What you will get out of it
Hear directly from Alliance members on the evidence base for home-based childcare across diverse contexts
Understand why home-based childcare has been underfunded and what is holding back greater investment and recognition
Get candid answers to the most common questions and doubts about home-based childcare's safety, quality, and impact
Leave with concrete ways to support home-based childcare
Global Home-Based Childcare Alliance website: https://hbccalliance.org/