Health and Well-being of Every Child: Modern Strategies for Child Health
22 Apr 2026
This conference in Kazakhstan served as a platform to advance practical solutions for strengthening primary health care, reducing inequalities, supporting early childhood development, creating safer school and digital environments, and promoting the mental health of children and young people.
IDPA 2025 Congress
01 Dec 2025 - 04 Dec 2025
The International Developmental Pediatrics Association Congress brought together participants from multiple disciplines, including all aspects of service delivery from research to child development and developmental disabilities.
The Road to COP 30
30 Oct 2025
This webinar presented an opportunity to shift the discourse and position children at the center of climate negotiations. Participants heard from some of the groups leading these efforts and learned how to help influence the planning process in their own countries.
Moving Minds Alliance Showcase
23 Oct 2025
Participants joined the Moving Minds Alliance for their quarterly showcase, where they spotlighted sustainable and innovative ECD programmes and research projects. The webinar also featured a presentation of resources and opportunities for collaboration.
15
Oct
Parenting in Asia: Innovations, Challenges, and Pathways to Scale-up
15 Oct 2025
Participants heard experts from China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand & Vietnam share insights on innovations, challenges, and scaling parenting support across the region.
Future-proofing Child and Adolescent Health in Europe and Central Asia: Webinar 2
10 Jul 2025
This webinar looked at the forthcoming WHO/UNICEF Strategy for Child and Adolescent Health and Well-being (2026–2030), a regional roadmap that responds to stagnating health outcomes and emerging threats with integrated, cross-sector solutions.
01
Jul
2025 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Early Childhood Development
01 Jul 2025 - 03 Jul 2025
This ARNEC and ECCD Council of the Philippines conference addressed the theme: "Advancing Equitable and Inclusive Early Childhood Development (ECD) Services: The critical role of effective local governance".
Launch of the Parenting Scale-Up Guide
30 Apr 2025
This webinar marked the official launch of the Guide on Designing, Implementing, Evaluating, and Scaling Up Parenting Interventions, developed by WHO in collaboration with Parenting for Lifelong Health and the Global Initiative to Support Parents.
Global Scales for Early Development webinar series 2025-2026
28 Apr 2025
This WHO webinar was the first in a series looking at why effective measurement in ECD is critical, and highlighting the value of the GSED package. It was structured to cater to both technical and non-technical participants with varying levels of expertise.
Nurturing Futures webinar series
18 Apr 2025
This Moving Minds Alliance webinar series consisted of five bi-monthly episodes, bringing diverse voices together to look at change-focused actions to promote equitable and dignified access to holistic nurturing care for young children in crisis.
Guide for Monitoring Child Development: A Combined Approach to Early Promotion, Identification and Intervention
14 Apr 2025
This IPA webinar aimed to equip participants with the latest strategies for promoting healthy child development, identifying early signs of concern, and implementing timely interventions.
25
Mar
The Role of Paediatric Associations in Advancing Nurturing Care in the Health Sector
25 Mar 2025
The Kenya Paediatric Association and the Early Childhood Development Learning Collaborative hosted this webinar to discuss the role of paediatric associations in advancing nurturing care in the health sector.
Nurturing the Future: Technical Meeting to Enhance Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development in the Health Sector
25 Feb 2025
This meeting was co-organized by UNICEF ESARO and WHO AFRO. It brought together participants from Botswana, Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, and Zambia. Participants included government delegates from the Ministry of Health; Ministry of Gender; Office of the President of First Lady; and sub-national government; as well as WHO and UNICEF staff and partners.
04
Feb
Fragile Beginnings: The Impact of Conflict and Displacement on Early Child Development
04 Feb 2025
In this webinar experts explored the profound effects of conflict and displacement on early childhood development and discussed strategies to mitigate the long-term effects.
Global Launch of the Caring for the Caregiver Package
21 Nov 2024
UNICEF, in collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand and WHO, developed the Caring for the Caregiver package to increase frontline workers’ capacity to provide adequate counselling and parenting support services. Using a family centered approach, the CFC intervention activities improve caregivers’ emotional well-being and their social support to enable nurturing care for improved child development outcomes.
Accelerating Progress for 2025 and Beyond: Improving Nutrition through Bold Action in Health, Food and Social Protection Systems
18 Nov 2024 - 21 Nov 2024
Join this WHO, UNICEF and SUN webinar series to hear from key experts about the foundation and commitment needed to tackle malnutrition in all its forms.
New Lancet Series: Early Childhood Development and the Next 1000 Days
11 Nov 2024
This two-part Lancet series focuses on the transition to the ‘next 1,000 days’ of the life course, describing why this developmental period matters, identifying the environments of care, risks, and protective factors that shape children’s development, estimating the number of children who receive adequate nurturing care, and examining whether current interventions are meeting children’s needs.
ISSA Conference 2024
23 Oct 2024
The conference theme, It Takes an Early Childhood Ecosystem for All Young Children to Thrive, recognizes that we live in disruptive and increasingly challenging times where the concern for protecting and asserting the importance of safe, healthy, and happy childhoods is more pressing than ever.
Launch of the Compendium of African Initiatives to Support Parents and Caregivers of Adolescents and Young Children
04 Sep 2024
AfECN and partners launched this Compendium, providing a summary of key findings, learnings and recommendations from 28 of the parenting programmes presented at the earlier Convening.
30
Aug
Nurturing Care Practices in Multiple Settings
30 Aug 2024
The International Pediatric Association (IPA) hosted a second webinar focused on early childhood development. This webinar included examples from Lebanon and India on how to promote nurturing care in health settings.
A Threat to Progress: Confronting the Effects of Climate Change on Child Health and Well-being
14 Aug 2024
This session kicked-off the Climate Change and Health Forum, the second phase of the Child Health Task Force’s successful 2022-23 webinar series on climate change and children’s health.
Re-Imagining Child Health Through Primary Health Care: A Series – Session Two: Primary Care and Essential Public Health Functions
17 Jul 2024
A deeper dive into the integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI) and exploration of IMCI as a tool in primary healthcare services for children.
The Power of Parenting in the Early Years: Presenting UNICEF’s Parenting Support Framework for Europe and Central Asia
11 Jul 2024
Health Systems for Early Child Development hosted this webinar on the power of parenting in the early years, and launched UNICEF's new Parenting Support Framework for Europe and Central Asia.
Taking a Systems Perspective on ECD in Humanitarian Contexts
26 Jun 2024
In humanitarian crises, young children pay the highest price. In this webinar, speakers will explore the issues and look at the experience of implementing humanitarian services in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
26
Jun
From Fragmentation to a Unity of Effort for Early Childhood Development
26 Jun 2024
This RISE/UNICEF webinar unpacked the role of developmental screening tools in providing care and services to young children and their families and their importance as a central component of national data collection systems.
New Regional Resources in Support of Better Services for Child Health and Development
10 Jun 2024
In this webinar Health Systems for Early Child Development and partners unveiled new regional resources in support of better services for child health and development.
Launch: 10 Years of Building Brains Evidence Synthesis
06 Jun 2024
Leading experts came together to share the Building Brains Evidence Synthesis, a report taking stock of Building Brains evidence gathered across 49 countries over the past 10 years.
Playful Parenting - Beliefs and Practices on Play
05 Jun 2024
This interactive discussion from the Playful Parenting Community looked at beliefs and practices around play in five distinct country contexts: Bhutan, Guatemala, Rwanda, Serbia, and Zambia.
Les Soins Attentifs pour le Développement de la Petite Enfance : Rôle et Implication du Secteur de la Santé
23 May 2024
Ce webinaire, organisé par l’UNICEF et l’OMS, offre une vue d'ensemble des soins attentifs pour le développement de la petite enfance, le Cadre des soins attentifs et, en s’appuyant sur le Guide Pratique des Soins Attentifs, des suggestions sur la manière de renforcer les soins attentifs par l’intermédiaire des services existants de santé et de nutrition. La présentation est suivie par des réflexions de la parte de l’Association des pédiatres d’Afrique noire francophone sur le rôle des pédiatres, par l’OMS concernant un atelier sur l’opérationnalisation du Cadre des Soins Attentifs dans les pays francophones de l’Afrique en 2019, et les expériences vécues concernant la collaboration multisectorielle et mise en œuvre du Cadre des Soins Attentifs (exemples partagé par Chad, Mali et Niger).
Introduction to the Smart Digital Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (Smart dIMCI) course
16 May 2024
In this webinar WHO introduced the new WHO Academy Platform and the online Smart dIMCI course for training health workers on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness.





