A compilation of various portal and sites with information to educate, motivate, empower and inspire communities around better health and nutrition practices. Particularly designed with rural and low-literate communities in mind. Read More →
The fourth edition of Facts for Life consists of 14 chapters filled with practical information about how to ensure children’s rights to survival, growth, development and well-being. Available in multiple languages, the topics address pregnancy, childbirth, major childhood illnesses, child development, early learning, parenting, protection, and care and support of children. Each chapter has three parts: an introduction, key messages and supporting information.Read More →
This video series covers the best practices of when, what and how to feed the first foods to young children aged 6-23 months. In the “nutrition” video library there are seven videos for parents and caregivers and nine videos for frontline workers, available in mutiple languages.Read More →
This video introduces the key concepts in the “First foods for young children” video series on complementary feeding.Read More →
In this TEDx Talk, Laura Peterson, founder of Hands to Hearts International, stresses how love is essential for children’s healthy brain development and can ensure children surivive and thrive. She shares three stories from her work in the USA, India and Uganda which illustrate the power of a caregivers’ love in preventing death and illness and positively shaping children’s health, growth and development. Read More →
This page contains a selection of images for use in social media. Click to view the image in full size, then right click and “Save image as” to download a copy.Read More →
In May-June 2020, Ummeed conducted a needs assessment with their partner community-based organisations across India by phone. It was to understand how parents and caregivers were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as it related to their ability to provide nurturing care for their children.Read More →
This review aimed to deepen understanding of the effects of COVID-19 on nurturing care on young children in the Kenyan context. The review draws on empirical evidence from previous pandemics and epidemics, and anecdotal and emerging evidence from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The review proposes program and policy strategies to guide the re-orientation of nurturing care, prevent the detrimental effects associated with deteriorating nurturing care environments, and support the optimal development of the youngest and most vulnerable children. Read More →
Executive summary in a selection of languages : Nurturing Care Framework for early childhood development: A framework for helping children survive and thrive to transform health and human potential.Read More →
This page contains links to key documents, an advocacy toolkit and handbook, country reports, templates, and material for use in meetings and presentations.Read More →
The tool aims to help Ministries and government agencies reflect on the ways in which they can support personnel delivering home visiting programs across sectors for pregnant mothers and caregivers with children under 3. Drawing inspiration from the UNICEF Pre-Primary Diagnostic and Planning Tool, this tool is intended for countries with home visiting programs at either the sub-national or national levels. The scope of this tool includes home visitors who work directly with young children and their families, as well as supervisors and trainers.Read More →
The Reach Up Early Childhood Parenting Programme is based on the Jamaica Home Visit (JHV) intervention, designed by Sally Grantham-McGregor. The programme provides a comprehensive training package for trainers, supervisors and home visitors. It has been integrated with health, nutrition and social protection programmes in 15 countries. Read More →
A series of cards featuring quotes from different people and organisations around the world that support the case for nurturing care.Read More →
This ‘how to guide’ was written as a reference guide for World Vision staff who want to develop an advocacy plan, and complements the training workshops delivered by the RAPID programme for staff from the Zambia and Uganda World Vision offices during 2010. However, other organisations will likely find it useful for their context.Read More →
This advocacy toolkit provides you with a repository of practical tools and resources to help you advocate for increased attention to and investment in early childhood development with and through health systems.Read More →
Frequently asked questions about nurturing care and the Nurturing care framewwork for early childhood development.Read More →
This advocacy toolkit provides you with a repository of practical tools and resources to help you advocate for increased attention to and investment in early childhood development with and through health systems.Read More →
This advocacy toolkit provides you with a repository of practical tools and resources to help you advocate for increased attention to and investment in early childhood development with and through health systems.Read More →
This guide offers practical tools for country programmes and stakeholders to support advocacy for improving newborn and maternal health and preventing stillbirths. It is especially important in countries with a high burden of newborn and maternal mortality. The document is by no means exhaustive but aims to provide a repository of quick reference and examples to the user. The toolkit shows how to undertake advocacy and communication in various national and local contexts, particularly in support of the global Every Newborn initiative, providing a wide range of options for outreach and advocacy activities tailored to specific audiences. It includes key messages on newborn and maternal health, as well as examples of letters to policymakers, briefs, press releases, social media content and other relevant materials to make the case for improving the quality of care and scaling up newborn and maternal health interventions.Read More →
The Breastfeeding Advocacy Toolkit is intended to ensure stakeholders are able to easily access and use advocacy tools aimed at improving policies and financing for the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding. The Toolkit is an initiative of the Global Breastfeeding Collective. Led by UNICEF and WHO, the Collective is a partnership of over 20 international organizations with the goal of increasing investment and policy change to support breastfeeding worldwide, which requires advocacy at the global, national, and sub-national levels.Read More →
