This training course offered frontline workers and volunteers who are responding to the earthquake disaster in Syria and Turkey an introduction to safe, good practice principles when setting up psychosocial support spaces for affected children and their caregivers.

Child health partners, inspiring speakers and expert practitioners from around the world came together for a conversation about how to address health inequities and enable children to survive and thrive.

This event shared updates and information about the work program of the Invest in Childcare initiative launched by the World Bank Group in 2021.

This training course offered frontline workers and volunteers who are responding to the earthquake disaster in Syria and Turkey an introduction to safe, good practice principles when setting up psychosocial support spaces for affected children and their caregivers.

This was the third of three 'Lives in the Balance' events, all anchored in the WHA report ‘Committing to Implementation of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)’.

This webinar presented concrete examples of pre- and in-service training designed for health care practitioners aimed at strengthening their capacity to support caregivers to provide nurturing care and promote ECD as part of their routine practice.

The WHO released new resources to support implementation and scale-up of Kangaroo Mother Care, in line with the updated recommendations for the care of preterm or low birthweight infants.

The IMNHC Conference brought together more than 1,500 stakeholders from around the world to accelerate solutions to improve maternal and newborn survival and prevent stillbirths as they strive to achieve the ambitious targets outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals.

The WHO, UNICEF and JICA have launched an implementation guide on strengthening home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health. At the launch they demonstrated how people can use the guide to establish milestones to track progress against eight key factors.

This webinar included an overview of the new Nurturing Care Practice Guide as well as reflections on how it can be used by managers and practitioners to strengthen caregiver well-being and caregivers’ capacities to provide their children nurturing care.

This Conference was hosted by the Government of Zambia in collaboration with the Southern African Network for ECD (SANECD) and the African Early Childhood Network (AfECN).

These two publications, developed by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, are the latest in a series of resources to support implementation of the Nurturing Care Framework. This webinar included an overview of the two publications as well as reflections on how the Handbook and Practice Guide build on existing packages and can be used to enhance advocacy and capacity building efforts at regional and national levels.

This webinar, organised in partnership with the Centro per la Salute del Bambino, presented guiding principles and examples of practical approaches to integrating nurturing care in Italy’s primary health care services.

Despite growing interest in early childhood development, globally validated tools to assess the development of children under the age of three ​at population and programmatic level remain scarce. WHO has launched a new measurement tool: Global Scales for Early Development (GSED).

The theme for this fourth international conference was: Nurturing for Transforming Lives - The Power of Early Childhood Development. It brought together over 400 participants, including legislators and policymakers responsible for health, nutrition, child protection, education, and social welfare, ECD professionals/experts from private and public sectors, practitioners, researchers, civil society, UN agencies, donors, academicians, aspiring ECD professionals, and parent representatives.

UNICEF, WHO, Countdown to 2030 and PMNCH have launched the latest Countdown to 2030 national, equity, and early childhood development country profiles. The profiles present up-to-date evidence on progress in improving the health of women, children, and adolescents and help identify coverage gaps to better inform priorities for action.

Richard Horton, Editor in Chief of the Lancet, and a panel of experts came together for a live event at the Royal Society of Medicine, unpacking a new three-paper Lancet series which explores how the value of breastfeeding is wasted by government and public health, and exploited by the formula milk industry.

This virtual talanoa discussed key results of the Sharm El Sheik Climate Summit (COP27), and how they intersect with global early childhood development policy. Speakers shared their reflection on COP27and opportunities to elevate ECD as a fundamental building block of climate resilience, as well as a pathway to adaptation and mitigation.

This webinar, hosted by ARNEC, formally launched ‘From most vulnerable to most valuable: A scoping study to put young children at the heart of climate actions and environmental protection'.

The "Health systems for early child development" initiative and its related website offer a one-stop-shop for curated contemporary, evidence-based guidance, resources, and expertise on improving the quality of health care for young children in Europe and Central Asia.

A coalition of partners including WHO, UNICEF, Parenting for Lifelong Health, the Early Childhood Development Action Network, and the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, came together in May 2021 to launch the Global Initiative to Support Parents. On December 6 2022, ARNEC will host this second webinar in a series to support country-led efforts around specific topics.

US-Aid Advancing Nutrition have launched the Feeding and Disability Resource Bank. Webinar participants learned about the importance of addressing feeding difficulties and how this new resource can help nutrition programs become more inclusive.

An overview of the general components of multisectoral ECD monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems, including interagency agreements; official policy/regulatory documents to establish these systems; selection of SDG, regional and national-level indicators; creation of multisectoral databases; and linking data reports to participatory ECD policy planning and annual budget and programme planning and reporting.

This event highlighted the need to address poverty and social exclusion in early childhood, and to discuss ways in which the European Child Guarantee can ensure that all children in Europe, especially the most marginalised, have access to quality services and nurturing care from their earliest years.

A coalition of partners including WHO, UNICEF, Parenting for Lifelong Health, ECDAN and the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, came together in May 2021 to launch the Global Initiative to Support Parents. On November 24 2022, ARNEC host the first webinar in a series to support country-led efforts.

This webinar was built on a joint initiative between the Harvard Center on the Developing Child and the ECD regional networks to help ECD champions understand, communicate and apply the science of child development to improve policies and programs for young children and their families.

The Aoteroa/New Zealand framework "Te Pā Harakeke: Nurturing care in the first 1000 days" outlines fundamental principles and recommendations to improve service delivery for vulnerable pēpi (babies/young children) in the first 1000 days. People from across the health, social and community sector who work with pēpi and their whānau (extended families) were invited to attend this webinar, run by Te Wai Pounamu Child Health Alliance.

On World Prematurity Day 2022, the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization Geneva launched new recommendations based on recent evidence that suggests how we can improve the care of preterm or low birth weight babies.

DOHaD refers to the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease and COHORTS to the Consortium of Health-Orientated Research in Transitioning Societies. This webinar looked at how early life can influence health and vulnerability to disease in later life and what can be achieved when 5 LMIC cohort studies come together.

This webinar took an in-depth look into longitudinal exposure to violence and adversity in the lives of Bt30 children, and the far-reaching consequences of this exposure on their health and wellbeing.