A spotlight session at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva discussed early childhood development in crisis settings.

A pre-congress session on Early Childhood Development will be held on December 9. The session will be grounded in the Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development.

This year’s conference theme is: Working across sectors to promote nurturing and sustainable environments for young children. A pre-conference session will explore progress and strategies for advancement of the Nurturing Care Framework in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) gathering brings together government focal points and representatives from civil society, donor, United Nations agencies, private sector partners, academia, media, parliamentarians and others.

Session 3339.0 of APHA’s 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo looked at bridging the global gaps from maternal and child health to ECD, with an emphasis on challenges and innovation drivers in cross-sectoral policy, practices, and partnerships.

The theme for this year’s annual conference is: ​Nurturing Care: From Global “Pact” to National Action; From Thriving Childhoods to Sustainable Livelihoods​.

Government ministers from 15 Pacific island nations, working in education, finance, health and social welfare, have announced a new Pacific Regional Council for Early Childhood Development.

This conference will have a strong focus on the nurturing care components, with papers providing an overview of the current state of play and discussing recommendations for informing relevant processes at both national and local levels.

As part of the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative, the International Step by Step Association (ISSA) and Results for Development (R4D) describe a needs assessment tool that has been developed and piloted in Kenya and Serbia. The tool focuses particularly on personnel supporting home visiting programs delivered across sectors for pregnant mothers and caregivers with children under 3 (18 October 2019).

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The theme for the ISSOP 2019 Annual Meeting was “Children in Armed Conflict: Rights, Health and Wellbeing”.