“If we change the beginning of the story,
we change the whole story.”
 — The beginning of life


NEW: Revised Country Experience Pages

We've revised our country experience section to provide a glimpse into how different nations and groups are advancing each of the strategic actions of the Nurturing Care Framework. The materials include case studies, peer-reviewed articles, blogs, and websites. You can take a look here.

Tools to Integrate Responsive Care and Early Learning into Nutrition Counselling

Recognizing the importance of integrating nutrition and caregiving interventions in nutrition and health services, USAID Advancing Nutrition has developed the Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum. The RCEL addendum has been piloted in Ghana and the Kyrgyz republic. Explore the resources and the country adaptations at the links below.
Overview video
RCEL addendum resource collection
RCEL addendum video series


Early Childhood Matters : The Well-being Issue

The 2023 issue of the Early Childhood Matters publication from the Van Leer Foundation puts a spotlight on caregiver well-being. The 24 articles in the journal explore why caregiver well-being is important, offer insights from parents today as well as diverse traditions policies and programmes that can inform how we can better support caregiver well-being.
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Recording of launch event

Collecting Data on Early Childhood Development in Household Surveys

This publication from UNICEF is meant to guide the collection of reliable, internationally comparable data on key ECD indicators, the selection of which was informed by the Nurturing Care Framework. While data on ECD come from different sources, this publication focuses on those that can be produced through household surveys. Detailed information on the selected indicators is provided along with guidance for the collection, analysis, monitoring and reporting on these indicators at national and global levels.
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New WHO Guideline

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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28 February 2024
Pediatricians as ECD Advocacy Champions: Kenya and Tanzania
Join the American Academy of Pediatrics to learn more about how pediatricians can advocate for nurturing care and early childhood development, drawing on lessons learned from Kenya and Tanzania.
Online
11 to 14 March 2024
East African Conference on Early Childhood
The Africa Early Childhood Network and partners are hosting this conference in Dar es Salaam this year.
Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania
27 to 30 May 2024
2024 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Early Childhood Development
CALLING FOR PAPERS NOW.

Join ARNEC and the ECCE Council of Malaysia to discuss how ECD is an important building block to building overall resilience and reinforcing SDG targets, especially those for young children under Target 4.2.
Penang, Malysia

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.