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. More.
What is "responsive feeding"? What does it have to do with nurturing care? How can we support caregivers to responsively feed their children? These are some of the questions addressed in our new thematic brief: Nurturing Children Through Responsive Feeding.
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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.
Promoting Nurturing Care in Ethiopia
Ethiopia's capital city, Addis Ababa, has launched a major program aimed at providing intensive support to 330,000 vulnerable families and children and access to comprehensive ECD services for all children by 2025. "The Future Hope of Addis" program is designed to deliver parental coaching and house visits in order to improve the provision of nurturing care, child health, and nutrition, as well as reduce the stunting rate within the city. Download program.
This implementation guidance aims to support USAID missions and operating units in understanding how they can operationalize the Global Child Thrive Act. More.
Ahlan Simsim - Research Findings
Ahlan Simsim is an initiative of the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop to support the development of children living in crisis across the Middle East. Three studies by the Global TIES for children explore how remote learning, mass media, and phone-based support to caregivers impacts children's development, caregiver skills and caregiver well-being. The studies are available in English and Arabic. 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.
