Continuing the cycle of international meetings initiated in 2007, FMCSV will address, in the 2011 edition, scheduled to take place on October 20 and 21, the importance and impact of financial investments in the promotion of Early Childhood Development.
This year, some features of the event have changed. The most visible is that it ceases to be a workshop and will now be a symposium, that is, a meeting in which scientific information is given more emphasis.
In addition, it is being organized by FMCSV in partnership with three major institutions: the Center for Child Development of Harvard University, the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Education and Research Institute (Insper).
The main theme for the International Child Development Symposium is the challenge to get the funds for Early Childhood to actually reach the children. The federal government has a policy of releasing funds targeted at early childhood education. However, local city governments, which have the right to invest in this area, often do not know how to or do not even know that there are credit lines available. The meeting's objective is to make communication easier between these two spheres of public power with regard to Child Development and also to make the public policy makers understand the importance and impact of Early Childhood for the formation of a society.
To bring the latest scientific advances in terms of Early Childhood, the Symposium will include a presentation by Jack Shonkoff, director of the Center for Child Development at Harvard University. And to show where and how federal funds are spent for Early Childhood, the Symposium invited the NGO Contas Abertas (Open Accounts) to prepare a detailed study of the Federal Budget, which will be presented during the event.