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For the past year, Patricia Cabrerizo has been engaging in a study, led by the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child and in partnership with UNESCO’s Horizontes program, on understanding local perceptions of social and emotional skills in rural communities of two regions in Peru (Cusc

The group of women sat in the quiet courtyard, six feet apart, and looked around in silence: some avoided eye contact, while others did their best to catch another’s eye, trying to gauge the energy in the room and who would speak first.

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child is pleased to announce the publication of Hannah Chandler and Dr. Neil Boothby’s manuscript, “Causes of family separation and barriers to reunification: Syrian refugees in Jordan” in the Journal of Refugee Studies.

When it comes to assessing whole child development (WCD), there are countless factors involved. Vyjayanthi Sankar, from CSSL in India, sat down with the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), to share some of her experience around the assessment of WCD in India.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a complex term with different meanings and understandings across cultures and contexts.

Michael Ward is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a member of the Measuring What Matters Learning Partnership  which the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) chairs.

As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the lives and livelihoods of families around the world, Haitian parents, in particular, struggle to find hope amid the pandemic.

The GC-DWC chairs the Measuring What Matters Learning Partnership (MWM-LP), which brings together senior policymakers and practitioners to create strategies and applied tools to improve whole child development efforts in low and middle income countries, and is excited to share the report from this y