Education and Early Childhood Development Costing

The education and early childhood development (ECD) costing project at Brookings aims to build global momentum to generate quality, comparable cost data on programs seeking to improve the nutritional, health, cognitive, and psycho-social development of young children. With this goal at the center, the project strives to identify the barriers to costing data and put solutions into practice through the development of tools and resources for cost collection and analysis. This work draws on years of Brookings research on data and transparency, innovations, and outcome-based financing to identify and document key principles for effective data collection and use in ECD and education, as well as on the depth and breadth of knowledge of other key stakeholders in the ECD and education sectors.