Leading experts came together to share the Building Brains Evidence Synthesis, a report taking stock of Building Brains evidence gathered across 49 countries over the past 10 years.

This interactive discussion from the Playful Parenting Community looked at beliefs and practices around play in five distinct country contexts: Bhutan, Guatemala, Rwanda, Serbia, and Zambia.

Ce webinaire, organisé par l’UNICEF et l’OMS, offre une vue d'ensemble des soins attentifs pour le développement de la petite enfance, le Cadre des soins attentifs et, en s’appuyant sur le Guide Pratique des Soins Attentifs, des suggestions sur la manière de renforcer les soins attentifs par l’intermédiaire des services existants de santé et de nutrition. La présentation est suivie par des réflexions de la parte de l’Association des pédiatres d’Afrique noire francophone sur le rôle des pédiatres, par l’OMS concernant un atelier sur l’opérationnalisation du Cadre des Soins Attentifs dans les pays francophones de l’Afrique en 2019, et les expériences vécues concernant la collaboration multisectorielle et mise en œuvre du Cadre des Soins Attentifs (exemples partagé par Chad, Mali et Niger).

In this webinar WHO introduced the new WHO Academy Platform and the online Smart dIMCI course for training health workers on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness.

This webinar introduced the Engaging Men in Nurturing Care multi-country initiative, which is aimed at influencing the policy discourse and practices at home and in services in three cities in Italy, Portugal and Spain.

This RISE/UNICEF webinar provided an overview of the core elements of the Nurturing Care Framework, what needs to be monitored on the pathway to impact, and learnings with respect to establishing national and subnational multisectoral monitoring and evaluation systems for early childhood development.

This Child Health Task Force webinar introduced the new well-care visits guidance within the broader context of the child and adolescent health and wellbeing agenda, and shared emerging efforts to map and rethink child health programming in Malawi.

Participants joined UNICEF for the launch of the updated Community IYCF Counselling Package, with an overview of the new tool, news about country experiences in adapting it, and complementary tools to strengthen quality counselling and support behavior change.

The Africa Early Childhood Network and partners hosted this conference in Dar es Salaam in 2024.

Participants joined the American Academy of Pediatrics to learn more about how pediatricians can advocate for nurturing care and early childhood development, drawing on lessons learned from Kenya and Tanzania.

ARNEC and ISSA looked at capacity-building programs for early childhood educators on social emotional learning and mental health in the Asia Pacific and Europe and Central Asia regions.

This webinar from Health Systems for Early Child Development introduced participants to developmental monitoring as part of routine health care services for children.

This WHO webinar provided an in-depth exploration of the scoring of GSED measures, including a hands-on demonstration of calculating scores from GSED data.

This webinar provided an overview of the situation with respect to complementary feeding in low- and middle-income countries, the new WHO Guideline, considerations for implementation, and a new global alliance.

This Child Health Task Force event discussed the Nurturing Care Group Model in Ethiopia, integration of ECD interventions in Mozambique, and a psychosocial stimulation approach in Burkina Faso.

A presentation on the new conceptual, programming, and advocacy framework, which aimed to help ensure the protection of children in humanitarian contexts by working with those who often impact their lives most – their caregivers.

The theme of this meeting, co-hosted by IDPA and Pediatric Neurology and Development Association of South Africa, was “Our Children Our Future: From Vulnerability to Resilience.”

This was a PATH-led side event for the International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) 2023.

Webinar 3 in a 3 part series: This webinar facilitated health cluster coordinators' dialogue on integrating and monitoring early childhood development in humanitarian health responses and fostering inter-sectoral collaboration for sustainable actions that support nurturing care for children and caregivers during crises.

WHO and UNICEF hosted this event to celebrate World Prematurity Day. The day raises awareness for the challenges of preterm birth and celebrates the lives of preterm infants and their families worldwide.

During this webinar US Aid Advancing Nutrition highlighted this project’s work and resources, covering 6 key themes.

This webinar took a deep dive into the pediatric quality of care indicators and shared updates from pathfinder countries Kenya and Sierra Leone. Country teams shared their experiences, lessons learned and next steps to advance pediatric QoC measurement at country level based on this effort, and the audience gained practical recommendations to adapt to their countries.

Webinar 2 in a 3 part series: The science behind caring for young children and caregivers: Strengthening Nurturing Care approaches to achieve better health outcomes.

This webinar presented the national child tracking systems of Colombia and Chile. Presenters explained how their child tracking systems were developed, how they relate to their national ECD monitoring and evaluation systems, and how they are used for the continuous planning and improvement of ECD services.

Webinar 1 in a 3 part series: The science behind caring for young children and caregivers: Strengthening Nurturing Care approaches to achieve better health outcomes.

Recognizing a persistent gap around counseling within GMP, USAID and partners have developed a learning agenda to inform future research and learning investments. This meeting discussed and contributed to this learning agenda to better achieve child health globally.

Conjoining the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies and the G20 Summit in India, this webinar brought together a dialogue between environmental experts and national advocates working on this intersection on air pollution and children.

Webinar 2 in a 3 part series: Programming in Action: Nurturing Care Integrated into National Health Systems.

The 2023 summit theme was ‘Nurturing Care and Opportunities for Early Learning for Children with Disabilities’. It highlighted service provision models and innovations advancing inclusive early childhood care and education on the African continent.

Kenya's Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and the County Government of Turkana, in collaboration with the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Network for Kenya, hosted the Fifth National ECD Stakeholders Conference, which brought together practitioners, researchers, policymakers and leaders from national and county governments, research institutions, civil society organizations, the private sector, donors, and the media.