Jan van Ravens, Doctorandus
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Jan van Ravens’ present area of work is the development of strategies and scenarios to expand and improve early childhood services in low and middle income countries. The emphasis is on policy, planning and finance. Partners include UNICEF, World Bank, UNESCO, as well as ministries and non-governmental organisations in the respective countries. His mission is (i) to draw lessons from country projects; (ii) to develop tools and methodologies; and (iii) to arrive at more general recommendations for consensus building and policy development. Formerly, he was Senior Policy Analyst in a UNESCO-based team that issues the annual Education for All Global Monitoring Reports, and Head of Multilateral Affairs in the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Having participated in OECD- and EU-networks, he values international comparison as a means to understand and improve the functioning of education, health and other public service systems.
Select Publications
Van Ravens, J. (2009). Holistic early childhood development for all in Indonesia: supporting communities to close the gap. UNICEF Office, Jakarta (forthcoming)
Van Ravens, J. (2009). Early Childhood Development in Nepal: Expansion, Inclusion, Quality. A study to support the further development of Nepal’s national policy for early
childhood. UNICEF Office, Kathmandu (forthcoming)
Van Ravens, J. (2008). Scenarios for Early Childhood Development in Armenia. Financial and Legal Analysis of National Preschool Education Programmes, Policies and Strategies in the Republic of Armenia. UNICEF Office, Yerevan
Van Ravens, J. (2008). Expanding ECCE in Bangladesh: It can be done. UNESCO Office, Dhaka
Van Ravens, J., & Aggio, C. (2008) Expanding Early Childhood Care and Education: How
Much Does it Cost? A Proposal for a Methodology to estimate the costs of ECCE at macro-
level, applied to the Arab States. Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Hague.
Van Ravens, J., & Aggio, C. (2006) The Costs and the Funding of Non-formal Literacy
Programmes in Brazil, Burkina Faso and Uganda, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning,
Hamburg
Van Ravens, J., & Aggio, C. (2005) The Costs of Goal 4 and LIFE. Estimation of the Costs of Improving Literacy Rates by 50%. Commissioned paper for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (4th edition).
Van Ravens, J. (2002) Towards a Framework for Assessment Practices in the Context of Work and Learning: Measuring Human Competence. In: Lifelong Learning: Which Ways Forward? Ed. Danielle Colardyn, Lemma, Utrecht
Van Ravens, J. (2001) Adult Learning in the Knowledge Society. In: the Economics and Financing of Adult Learning. Ed. Madhu Singh, UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg
Van Ravens, J. (1998) The Franchise Model: Refinancing Higher Education for Lifelong
Learning. In: European Journal of Education (33,1) Paris
