The Global Child Development Group (GCDG) is an international, non-governmental organization founded in Bellagio, Italy in 2007, with a focus on the promotion of research, practice and policies focused on child development.
The organization has a particular emphasis on children's social, cognitive, emotional, behavioural and motor development.
The organization has released a variety of studies which have documented the risks that young children face in low and middle income countries, and the characteristics of interventions that are most likely to be effective.
These include the Early Childhood Development Lancet Series of 2007 and 2011 as well as the D-Score Group.
[citation needed] GCDG has received financial and operational support from UNICEF and UN Sustainable Development.