IPA recherche 01 Pediatrician or Early Child Development Consultant

Pour accompagner sa croissance, IPA recrute pour ce poste. Cote d'Ivoire IPA recrute 01 Pediatrician or Early Child Development Consultant IPA recrute 01 Pediatrician or Early Child Development Consultant Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA Yopougon/Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Terms of ReferencePediatrician or Early Child Development ConsultantInnovations for Poverty ActionIPA is a research and policy Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates and refines these solutions and their applications together with researchers and local decision makers, ensuring evidence is used to improve the lives of the world’s poorest populations. Since it was founded in 2002, IPA has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over 800 evaluations in 51 countries.BackgroundWhile the importance of early childhood development is well recognized globally, universal measures to quantify early childhood development (ECD) are lacking. Research in neuroscience, biology, genetics and social sciences over the past two decades hasunequivocally demonstrated that the first 1000 days (from conception to 24 months of age) and the period up to the end of the third year of life are critical for brain development. The Global Early Development Scale (GSED) is a newly developed scale for early childhood development for children aged 0-3 years. The GSED is the culmination of the work of three groups of researchers who brought together three existing independent initiatives to measure ECD in children under three years of age: (i) the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI), (ii) the Global Child Development Group (GCDG), and (iii) the Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD). These organizations have joined forces to create a set of tools that can be used for monitoring child development at the population level and evaluating programs or interventions. The scale consists of three different tools: (1) a short Caretaker Report Form; (2) a psychosocial Caretaker Report Form; and (3) a long directly administered form. A validation study administered by the World Health Organization is currently being conducted in six countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, the Netherlands, Pakistan and Tanzania) to establish the psychometric properties of the scale.In the long term, the study will benefit children and families by providing simple and reliable tools for collecting epidemiological data on early development that could be used to monitor progress and changes in policy and program evaluation. The data will be useful to policymakers and governments to guide funding and intervention priorities. Global organizations will also be able to use the data for cross-country comparisons and trend analysis. It is hoped that the instruments will provide countries with an indication of how the youn...