Data from South Africa show just how mobile children are — moving between residences and schools. This webinar covered the factors related to child mobility in the Bt30 cohort study and some of the consequences associated with it, for a better understanding of who moves and why.

Home visiting programmes increase parental well-being, parental competencies and child outcomes. A new initiative, Health Systems for Early Child Development, was discussed in this webinar, highlighting practices that have enhanced nurturing care provision.

The topic of the second webinar in this UNICEF/RISE Institute series was SDG monitoring and reporting (roles and responsibilities, requirements for global monitoring and reporting, etc.), monitoring ECD within the SDG measurement framework, and collecting data on ECD through household surveys.

The World Health Organization (WHO), The BMJ, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) and Children in All Policies 2030 (CAP2030) hosted this webinar series on health professionals and formula milk marketing. Webinar 2 in the series looked at the question: Should health professional associations refuse industry funding?

As part of a series of side events at the UN General Assembly, UNICEF co-hosted this high-level spotlight event with Sesame Workshop to galvanize global investment in parenting support and early childhood development (ECD) programmes, especially in areas affected by conflict and crisis.

The first five years of life are the fastest period of growth and development. This webinar covered the early life of participants in South Africa's Birth-to-30 cohort study, including their home environment, their early learning and the factors that influenced their development.

This first webinar in a series of three introduced the series, co-hosted by The Rise Institute and UNICEF, and looked at data needs for early childhood development and matching such needs to available data sources, measures and systems.

Maternal and child health and nutrition play crucial roles in child development. This webinar showcased the extraordinary findings from South Africa's Birth to 30 (Bt30) cohort, which has helped researchers understand physical growth, body composition, maturation, and the many factors that contribute to these biological processes.

This webinar, the first in a series on health professionals and formula milk marketing, was brought to you by the World Health Organization (WHO), The BMJ, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) and Children in All Policies 2030 (CAP2030).

This was the first in a series of global webinars on ECD and climate change from the Early Childhood Regional Networks - AfECN, ANECD, ARNEC and ISSA and Global Early Childhood Network ECDAN.

This ARNEC conference aimed to bring about strong awareness among policy makers and practitioners of the substantial threats young children are facing due to the multiple crises that are affecting them, i.e., COVID-19, climate change and environmental degradation.

This virtual regional conference aimed to develop a common understanding of evidence-based solutions and further commitment towards supporting parents and caregivers of children and adolescents.

This meeting brought together over 140 participants from 18 Eastern and Southern Africa countries. Participants included government delegates from relevant ministries, national statistical offices, academia, WHO and UNICEF staff and partners. The meeting concluded with the development of country-specific action plans to strengthen monitoring and evaluation of ECD.

WHO presented the Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development. Sheila Manji and Giorgio Tamburlini spoke about the importance of nurturing care for ensuring children and thrive. Giorigo provided examples from the Italian context on how they have operationalized the Nurturing care framework and are now working to strengthen the capacity of the workforce.

This ECDAN webinar aimed to help demystify the basic concepts of climate change, as well as processes like the UNFCCC, Conference of Parties (CoPs) and relevant frameworks like the Paris Agreement, 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for DRR.

In this webinar, a part of the COVID-19 Learning Series, the hosts (ECDAN) shared results from a scoping review on the nature and scope of the existing early childhood development evidence related to components of nurturing care for young children, including health, nutrition, child protection, opportunities for learning, and responsive caregiving.

The Hilton Foundation and Stellenbosch University presented an interactive webinar discussion on the challenges faced by young mothers, and potential solutions to provide them with effective support.

As part of this webinar, hosted by ECDAN, UNICEF and the UVA Humanitarian Collaborative, speakers shared key findings from the new Childcare in Humanitarian Crises brief, along with experiences from field implementation.

The goal of this webinar was to launch the Working Group on Fatherhoods, as part of ECDAN's global initiative to support parents. The webinar serves as a stepping stone in the launch of the Working Group on Fatherhoods, and as its main objectives, the webinar sought to: elevate the work on fatherhood and male engagement in parenting being developed by various partners around the world; create shared alignment of all invited partners to establish international collaboration; and highlight advocacy work needed to encourage caregiving.

There is global consensus on the importance of supporting and empowering caregivers to provide safe and nurturing care, given their critical influence on children’s development and well-being, particularly in the earliest years. Caregivers of children with developmental disabilities are more likely to experience stigma, isolation, emotional distress and low confidence in their parenting skills. Despite the established benefits that parent-mediated interventions bring to children with developmental disabilities and their caregivers, the majority of families do not have access to parenting support. This meeting launched the WHO’s caregiver skills training package, which was developed to help address this gap.

Although global attention to early childhood development has been established through its inclusion in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 250 million children (43%) younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries are at risk of not achieving their developmental potential due to poverty and nutritional deficit. This is the third of a 3-part webinar series from Medicus Mundi Schweiz.

Although global attention to early childhood development has been established through its inclusion in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 250 million children (43%) younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries are at risk of not achieving their developmental potential due to poverty and nutritional deficit. This is part 2 of a 3-part webinar series from Medicus Mundi Schweiz.

The Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) and Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN) hosted this webinar series on “Accelerating Better Early Childhood Development (ECD) outcomes in Africa and Asia-Pacific regions through strengthened governance mechanisms”. The first webinar focused on the results of a mapping study on governance and coordination mechanisms for ECD in the Africa region, which was completed in December 2021 with more than 100 participants from both regions.

As custodian agency of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 4.2.1, UNICEF was tasked with leading the development of a new measure to track progress toward achieving the related target. Following five years of methodological work, the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) was launched in March 2020 as a new tool to measure developmental outcomes among young children and for SDG monitoring and reporting. This webinar took stock and reflected on implementation of the ECDI2030 over the previous two years.

Although global attention to early childhood development has been established through its inclusion in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 250 million children (43%) younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries are at risk of not achieving their developmental potential due to poverty and nutritional deficit. This webinar was the first of a 3-part series from Medicus Mundi Schweiz.

This report drew on the experiences of over 8,500 women and 300 health professionals across eight countries to expose the aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry, and highlighted the impact on families’ decisions about how to feed their babies and young children.

This webinar aimed to kickstart ARNEC, UNICEF EAPRO and Save the Children’s Asia-Pacific regional initiative around advocating for young children’s rights to clean, safe and sustainable environments, focused on climate change and environmental risks/challenges (indoor and outdoor pollution, a lack of clean and protective play and recreation spaces and exposure to environmental toxins such as lead and mercury).

The goal of this webinar was to disseminate findings from two studies recently conducted in Kenya and Mozambique, which examine the acceptability and feasibility, facilitators and barriers, as well as initial outcomes of integrating monitoring and counseling on child development into routine health services. 

The Countdown to 2030 national, equity and early childhood development profiles was launched on 14 December 2021. This webinar explained how the profiles can be used for programming and advocacy, and how they complement the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescent Health profiles.

The 4th International Developmental Pediatrics Association (IDPA) Congress was held on December 2-5, 2021. IDPA and the Arab Network for Early Childhood Development (ANECD) hosted the event, bringing together clinicians, researchers, and policymakers working for child development and disabilities from around the world. The theme for 2021 is 'Nurturing Children in Crisis'.