Breastfeeding infographics
2020-09-25
Infographics and posters that can be used in program and advocacy efforts related to breastfeeding. For other languages contact the regional or national UNICEF and WHO offices.Read More →
Early learning: Giving children time, attention, talking and playing with them helps their growth and development – बच्चे का विकास – जन्म से 3 वर्ष की आयु तक: बच्चों के बढ़ने और विकास के लिए उनको समय दें, उनके साथ बातचीत करें और खेलें
2020-09-25
In this 12 minute soap opera, ammaji (grandmother) helps a mother and father understand why it’s important for them to spend time with their children, give them attention, talk to them, and play with them. Read More →
Facts for life
2020-09-25
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 →
First foods for young children: Video series on complementary feeding
2020-09-24
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 →
How to feed your young child with care
2020-09-24
This video introduces the key concepts in the “First foods for young children” video series on complementary feeding.Read More →
Every newborn: An advocacy toolkit and guidance manual for ending preventable deaths
2020-09-04
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 →
Breastfeeding advocacy toolkit
2020-09-04
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 →
Monitoring and evaluating advocacy: Companion to the advocacy toolkit
2020-09-04
This guide looks at strategies and features of evaluations that focus on assessing the impact of advocacy campaigns. The key element of the guide is built around five questions for planning advocacy monitoring and evaluation. A number of case studies are also included to demonstrate how these key questions were answered in the field.Read More →
Advocacy toolkit: A guide to influencing decisions that improve children’s lives
2020-09-04
UNICEF has an exceptional history of advocating to protect and promote children’s and women’s rights. The Advocacy Toolkit stems from this, systematizing and coordinating both internal and external advocacy expertise, as well developing a few innovative approaches. The Toolkit provides a set of practical tools to help UNICEF staff and partners in the development and management of their advocacy work.Read More →
A future for the world’s children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission
2020-08-25
This landmark report on child health and well-being is the first comprehensive, independent report looking at child health through the lens of changing climate and other existential threats, such as ecological degradation, migrating populations, conflict, pervasive inequalities, and predatory commercial practicesRead More →
Supporting families for nurturing care: Resource modules for home visitors
2020-08-21
UNICEF ECARO and ISSA have developed a set of Resource Modules for Home Visitors: Supporting Families for Nurturing Care, intended to better equip home visitors with the latest knowledge and tools to support and engage with the families of young children. These modules can be delivered through various training methods and adapted to train other service providers.Read More →
Care for child development: Improving the care for young children
2020-08-21
Published by WHO and UNICEF in 2012, this publication recommends play and communication activities for families to stimulate the learning of their children. Also, through play and communication, adults learn how to be sensitive to the needs of children and respond appropriately to meet them. These basic care-giving skills contribute to the survival, as well as the healthy growth and development, of young children.Read More →
Caring for the child’s healthy growth and development – Caring for newborns and children in the community
2020-08-21
This WHO/UNICEF training package equips community health workers with the knowledge and skills to counsel families to breastfeed young children and give their children nutritious complementary foods; play and communicate with their children to help them learn and to strengthen their relationships with their children; prevent childhood illnesses and injury; and recognize signs of illness and take their children to a health facility.Read More →
The key early childhood development elements for nurturing care
2020-08-20
UNICEF Bulgaria has produced a very simple and short (ie 1 minute 35) introduction to the concept of nurturing care. It goes through each of the components and then discusses the wider context, explaining what this all means when it comes supporting parents and caregivers. Read More →
Nurturing care: Integrating early childhood development into health systems
2020-08-20
PATH has put together two short films – a 14-minute version and a 4-minute version – to help policymakers, donors, and governmental and non-governmental partners understand how early childhood development and nurturing care can be integrated into health service delivery. They were produced with input from UNICEF and the Aga Khan Foundation.Read More →
What do children need to thrive? All children need nurturing care
2020-08-20
This short animated video explains why children need nurturing care to thrive and how this can help South Africa achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The video was made by The Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town, in collaboration with RX Radio and UNICEF. Read More →
The beginning of life
2020-08-20
This is a documentary about the importance of loving relationships in early childhood development. It includes interviews with experts and footage with parents from across nine countries and four continents. The Bernard van Leer Foundation has put together a selection of short clips from the documentary, grouped by theme.Read More →
The big touch of little heroes
2020-08-20
This short video tells the story of identical twins, Lena and Mionka, who were born two months early in Serbia. At the Intensive Care and Therapy Unit their parents were taught about the importance of skin to skin contact. Both mother and father take every opportunity to touch and hold their little girls. The video tells their story and describes other initiatives underway at the health facility to ensure pre-term babies get the best possible care right from the start. Read More →
Tshwaragano ka Bana – Working together for children
2020-06-02
Early learning activity sheets UNICEF South Africa, the Department of Social Development, the Department of Basic Education and the LEGO Foundation have developed and distributed easy to understand early learning activity sheets for parents and caregivers of children birth to 5 years. The early learning activities are playful and canRead More →
Dubai Declaration on ECD at the World Government Summit
2019-06-04
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 andRead More →
