Home visiting has been identified as a key entry point for operationalizing the Nurturing Care Framework, with new training modules contain material on NCF.

The U.A.E. Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Dubai Cares, and the Emirates Red Crescent convened a meeting aimed at providing a quality early childhood development package for humanitarian and fragile settings.

This event sought to revitalize national ECD dialogue and introduce the Nurturing Care Framework for national buy in and uptake.

Professor Jane Fisher spoke on the topic: “Society, women’s health, family wellbeing and early childhood – they are all connected”, drawing on the Nurturing Care Framework to make the case that nurturing care is central to achieving all three.

Public health workers, pediatricians, home visitors, social workers and representatives of the education sector, along with UNICEF, WHO, and decision makers from the Ministry of Health and City Authority, meet to discuss a comprehensive approach to child health and development.

This Latin American regional congress served as a platform to learn about various ECD tools, technologies, and services used in the region, and opened with a presentation on the Nurturing Care Framework.

About 20 government, partner and UNICEF representatives from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan joined a study tour to share in lessons-learned in an exciting pilot project on universal progressive home visiting.

Meeting organized by UNICEF, the IADB and FRMA to consider programs in the Latin American region that focus on early childhood education. Keynote contribution on the Lancet series.

The African Early Childhood Network facilitated a presentation and discussion on the evidence for and implications of the Framework on child development.

The AAP put a spotlight on nurturing care during their 2018 National Conference and Exhibition. Speakers addressed ECD in the global context, the Nurturing Care Framework, and the importance of nutrition for children’s development.