This MELQO Brief provides practical guidance on adapting the Measure of Development and Early Learning (MODEL) Literacy tasks to new languages and contexts. Provides practical guidance on adapting the Measure of Development and Early Learning (MODEL) Literacy tasks to new languages and contexts.

Results from Four MELQO Pilot Countries: Evidence of Within-Country Validity and Cross-Country Comparison of Child Development data.

Beginning in 2014 and led by UNESCO, UNICEF, Brookings Institution and World Bank, the Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes project (MELQO) brought together a consortium of experts, multi-lateral organizations and stakeholders to assess the feasibility of cross-national measurement of early childhood development and quality of learning environments in low-and middle-income countries. This project is now completed. A report on the feasibility of cross-national measurement of early childhood development and quality of learning environments in low-and middle-income countries.

This Social Policy Report describes the central role of supporting child and youth development in achieving the vision behind the U.N. Sustainable Development Agenda. It addresses the importance of developmental science in achieving the aims of the Sustainable Development Agenda through generating knowledge of child and youth development in diverse contexts, monitoring and measurement to reveal patterns of success and inequity, and building capacity for developmental science in all countries. New Social Policy Report on the SDGs and child development available now, addressing the critical role of measurement in tracking global and national progress.