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This article provides an overview of the threats climate change represents for women, children and adolescents, including the most vulnerable communities, and where health and climate investments should focus. It draws on evidence to explore the opportunities and challenges for health financing, climate finance and co-financing schemes to enhance equity and protect WCAH while supporting climate goals.Read More →

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Through tender portrayals of heartfelt moments, challenges, fears, and the sheer joy of fatherhood, this endearing short film highlights that men are often hard on themselves with respect to their role as father. Yet it is not perfection that young children value but closeness, meaningful relationships, and cherished time together.Read More →

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This UNICEF/WHO interactive course is based on the WHO training package on children’s environmental health – a comprehensive set of harmonized, peer-reviewed materials on the most relevant issues on children’s environmental health. The course will increase the capacity of health workers to recognize, prevent, diagnose and manage children’s conditions related to environmental threats.Read More →

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While the evidence on the impact of climate change on children’s health and well-being is growing, research often focuses on the effects of individual hazards. This report aims to provide a comprehensive ‘stocktake’ of the impacts of climate change on children across six major hazards that impact their health and well-being: extreme heat, droughts, wildfires, floods and storms, air pollution and ecosystem change.Read More →

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UNICEF’s Parenting Support Framework for the Early Years represents a conceptual framework that provides a unified vision of multi-sectoral support for parents and parenting in the early years (from pregnancy to 8 years of a child’s age). It aims to bring together different stakeholders and sectors to accelerate results for young children and their families through a system-strengthening approach, and by leveraging social and behavioural change guidance and strategies. Read More →

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This online course, developed by WHO, is intended for the training of clinical nurses, clinicians and doctors managing common childhood illnesses at primary health care level. The course can be accessed online on any electronic device (computer, tablet or smart phone).Read More →

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The Inter-Religious Council of Kenya has developed scripturally-referenced guidelines for ECD advocacy by religious leaders. Theologians from Muslim, Christian and Hindu faith communities were involved in the development of the guidelines, which were launched during national advocacy training in Nairobi.Read More →

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The RCEL Addendum package for Ghana includes a training package; counselling cards; and a flow chart to guide counselling during services. These materials are required for any programme interested in using the RCEL Addendum in Ghana. Additionally, there are optional videos that can be used if technology/capabilities allows.Read More →

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Following a baseline study which identified high rates of malnutrition among children (0 to 3 years) in Nampulla Province, Transforming Nutrition and USAID Advancing Nutrition collaborated to integrate responsive care and early learning and monitoring for child development into TN’s community-based activities, including support for the widely used multi-sectoral nutrition intervention package for community-based services. Read More →

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These ten instructional videos, available in English, Arabic, French, Kyrgyz, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, are for health workers and other early childhood service providers who work with mothers, fathers, and other caregivers of young children. The goal of the videos is to improve the quality of counseling and other services that promote responsive care.Read More →

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The 24 articles in this journal offer insight from diverse traditions, policies, programmes and people. Together, they show why we need a person-first approach to caregiving and how we can get there, so that caregivers, children and entire communities flourish.Read More →

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This page is under development. For further information see below.   Related links Scaling up nurturing care in Siaya County, Kenya (May 2018): https://nurturing-care.org/siaya-county-scaling-up-nurturing-care/ Scaling up place-based strategies to strengthen community early childhood systems (Spring Impact, 2019): https://www.springimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Scaling-up-place-based-strategies_Dec2019_FINAL_WEB.pdf Smart Start Siaya Campaign Twitter/X account: https://twitter.com/NurturingCareKE (follow the campaign: @NurturingCareKE)Read More →