UNICEF, in collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand and WHO, has 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A deeper dive into the integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI) and exploration of IMCI as a tool in primary healthcare services for children.

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.

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.