2023 Country Profiles for Early Childhood Development Published
The 2023 Country Profiles for Early Childhood Development, developed by UNICEF in collaboration with Countdown to 2030 Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health, are an attempt to compile the available data on ECD for 197 countries. How is your country doing, compared to others? How have things progressed since 2018? Translations into Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish are forthcoming.
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Celebrating 5 Years Since the Launch of the Nurturing Care Framework!
This Progress Report looks back on the last five years since the launch of the Nurturing Care Framework. It documents achievements and presents areas for future action. Annotated with stories of change, the Report provides a snapshot of progress in relation to each of the five strategic actions of the Framework and shows the breadth of activities that have been undertaken.
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The WHO Guideline for complementary feeding of infants and young children 6-23 months of age considers the needs of both breastfed and non-breastfed children. It supersedes earlier guidelines on the same topic. Responsive feeding is one of the recommendations.
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Launch event (6 Dec 23).
Global Report on Children with Developmental Disabilities: From the Margins to the Mainstream
The WHO and UNICEF have released a global report on children with developmental disabilities. It provides principles and approaches to intentionally include the needs and aspirations of children and young people with developmental disabilities in policy, programming and public health monitoring. It makes the case for greater accountability and proposes 10 priority actions to accelerate changes towards inclusive environments and responsive multisectoral care systems for children with developmental disabilities.
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This collection of interventions and tools compiles resources for strengthening and supporting families in humanitarian settings. Resources range from programming interventions and campaigns to evaluation tools and evidence reviews and covers multiple sectors including child protection, gender-based violence, mental health and psychosocial support, education, and nutrition. More.
Helping children in Kenya reach their full potential
PATH’s Beatrice Oyugi is at the forefront of integrating Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development into existing health systems in Kenya. Learn how her work is giving thousands of children the opportunity to live fuller and healthier lives. More.
Ahlan Simsim supports 1,000,000+ children
Ahlan Simsim is the world’s largest early childhood development program in a humanitarian setting. It has now reached more than one million children with direct services across Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. More.
Bebbo app
This free app developed by UNICEF and national partners is designed to lend a helping hand to parents, with easy tips on topics like breast pumps, baby weaning, learning, toys, child protection and much more. The app is available in 14 languages and can be used both online and offline. You can download it for free for both Android and iOS. Find out more here.
Children in Humanitarian Settings
Nurturing care can mitigate risks for young children in humanitarian settings and support them to have a healthy development. But, in humanitarian settings, our youngest children are being left behind. Moving Minds Alliance provides you with the facts and solutions to turn this situation around in a series of thematic briefs:
1) How the youngest children are left behind in humanitarian response
2) The developing brain in crisis contexts
3) Nourish the body, nourish the bond: early care and nutrition in emergencies
4) How early childhood development in emergencies promotes gender equality.
