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I chose worldbank.org. The area I selected to search is Early Child Development. I found that World Bank's Early Child Development (ECD) is part of the Child and Youth Group in Human Development Network (HDN).Their primary mission is to  improve World Bank's staff and clients' knowledge of ECD programming and to improve the quality of World Bank's lending for ECD. Two ways in which they accomplish this mission is by: 1) Maintaining a knowledge base on ECD to support World Bank's operational staff in designing ECD projects and increasing the lending for ECD as part of World Bank's Education For All (EFA) and Health and Social Protection (HD) portfolio. 2) Extending the knowledge base on ECD and building capacity among World Bank's task managers and field practitioners in the design and preparation of ECD interventions. This website did add to my understanding by making me aware that worldbank is part of the Child and Youth Group In Human Development Network (HDN). I learned that the most common source of financing for early childhood programs is the regular budget of the government. Budgets for ECD usually come out of Health, Education or Social Services budgets. Other financial options are : Families, social organizations, private sector and international organizations.

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http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTCY/EXTECD/0,,contentMDK:20259114~menuPK:527328~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~