This guidance note was prepared by staff from WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank Group, the ECD Action Network and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. It specifically targets the health sector and aims to catalyse country-level dialogue and action focusing on health service delivery and systems strengthening while also outlining complementary actions by other sectors.
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In March 2019 the Ministry of Social Affairs, in collaboration with partners, introduced the Nurturing Care Framework and defined roles at national and provincial levels. The Framework was viewed as a positive resource for helping the government and partners harmonize their approach to early childhood development (ECD), and informing partners' support programmes (UNICEF, PATH and the National ECD Network).
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An inter-ministerial meeting was held to discuss the finalization of the early childhood development (ECD) strategy. Presentations on the Nurturing Care Framework were made. The ministries represented included: Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Social Affairs (Higher Council of Childhood).
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The Ministry of Health is using the Nurturing Care Framework to develop the country’s early childhood development model, which will be piloted in the second half of 2019.
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In October 2018 a multi-country stakeholders’ consultation took place in Nairobi, Kenya to operationalize the Nurturing Care Framework within the health sector (more). Following this meeting, in October 2018, the Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare hosted a national ECD conference in Malawi, at which the Nurturing Care Framework was presented.
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At the 2018 G20 Leaders’ Summit, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the G20 leaders signed a declaration signaling prioritization for the early childhood development agenda. At the Partners’ Programme meeting, Argentine First Lady Juliana Awada promoted Argentina’s National Plan on Early Childhood.
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Published in the Journal of Public Health (February 2019), "The effect of a community-based, integrated and nurturing care intervention on early childhood development in rural China" explores whether attention to nurturing care can promote developmental health and reduce developmental delays.
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In January 2019 the Ghana Health Service organized a national stakeholders' meeting to discuss implementation of the Nurturing Care Framework. The meeting took place in Accra.
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The Early Childhood Workforce Initiative is a global, multi-sectoral effort to produce new knowledge and equip decision-makers with tools and resources to support the development of a quality early childhood workforce at scale.
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The 2018 monitoring report for the Every Woman Every Child global strategy for women's, children's and adolescents' health provides updates on progress towards the Survive, Thrive, and Transform goals, which were set out in the 2016-2030 global strategy.
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The “Dubai Declaration on Early Childhood Development” identifies the elements and approaches for a holistic package of services for young children and their caregivers, ranging from stimulation and play to nutrition to parental livelihoods. The declaration also calls for these approaches to be backed by national policy, with regulations and incentives that can guide private sector investment alongside state prioritization of early childhood development.
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Joan Lombardi, Director of Early Opportunities, and Shannon Rudisill, Executive Director of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, have written an article on nurturing care for Grant Makers in Health.
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A webinar co-hosted by the International Step by Step Association and the Bernard van Leer Foundation sought to orient stakeholders on the Nurturing Care Framework.
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In putting together the 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO commissioned a paper that considered the role of nurturing care in crisis settings.
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TheirWorld has looked at the issue of nurturing young children in South Africa through the eyes of an ECD centre owner, a charity worker and an academic.
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The G20 has acknowledged the approach set out in the Nurturing Care Framework. In October 2018 the Development Working Group launched the “G20 Early Childhood Development Initiative”.
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The Integrated Early Childhood Development (IECD) programme applies a holistic cross-sectoral approach which aims to bring about optimum early childhood development, and thus reduce the widening disparities in maternal and child health indicators between ethnic minorities and the Kinh majority in Viet Nam.
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Under the National Integrated Early Childhood Development (ECD) Policy of 20154, the Department of Health is responsible for providing a comprehensive package of ECD services for children aged 0-2 years, including support for responsive caregiving and early learning, at health facility and household levels.
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