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”.

This two-day conference explored multi-sectoral approaches to promoting holistic ECD, from conception to age 8, in Pakistan.

The Partnership for Maternal Newborn & Child Health held its annual accountability breakfast on the side of UN General Assembly. This year’s theme was “Leaving no woman, child or adolescent behind on the road to UHC”.

Over 100 participants implementing initiatives for families and/or newborns in 20 countries were introduced to the Nurturing Care Framework. During the session and throughout the 3-day event, they reflected on how to go about their work differently so they could promote nurturing care, work in partnership, and strengthen systems.