In February 2019 the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office – Children’s Unit convened a meeting to develop a multi-sectoral early childhood care and development framework for the Kingdom of Eswatini, aligned to the Nurturing Care Framework. The Framework will leverage existing services to facilitate scaling up the delivery of essential care,Read More →
The Partnership for Maternal Newborn & Child Health held its annual accountability breakfast on Sunday September 22, 2019 in New York. This year’s theme was “Leaving no woman, child or adolescent behind on the road to UHC.” UNICEF launched the expanded and updated set of country profiles on early childhoodRead More →
The Government of Liberia convened a national sensitization meeting on nurturing care for early childhood development in Buchanan, 26 – 27 June 2019. The Family Health Division brought together close to 200 participants including members of the legislature, Deputy Ministers of gender, education and justice, superintendents and health officers fromRead More →
WHO, UNICEF, the ECD Action Network (ECDAN) and the Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN) convened a meeting of nine countries in West and Central Africa to explore implementation of the Nurturing Care Framework in the health sector. Over 80 participants from Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Mali, Niger,Read More →
WHO and UNICEF organized a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on 1-2 July 2019 to discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in implementing the Nurturing Care Framework in countries with a high burden of HIV, and to develop guidance to leverage existing HIV programmes and promote integration with the ECD platform.Read More →
In follow up of the launch of the Nurturing Care Framework (NCF) in May 2018, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Bank Group with support from PMNCH and ECDAN convened a meeting called: Innovating for early childhood development: What we have learnt to strengthen programming for nurturing care.Read More →
The first national capacity-building workshop on care for child development was organized by Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, USAID, PATH and the African ECD Network. The workshop prepared 15 master trainers to train 27 participants from federal and regional health bureaus, teaching institutions, development partners,Read More →
The Nurturing Care Framework was presented during a concurrent session at the 2019 World Forum on Early Care and Education, as a guide to helping stakeholders achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.Read More →
Globally, autism is estimated to affect about 70 million people (2018 figures). To mark World Autism Awareness Day 2019 experts from the WHO, UNICEF and other organisations shared information and explored opportunities for progress in this area, with discussions looking at care in the context of the Nurturing Care Framework.Read More →
The Ethiopian Ministry of Health, with support from WHO, UNICEF and other partners including the World Bank, organized a multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder meeting to sensitize all key stakeholders on early childhood development and the Nurturing Care Framework. The meeting was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 17-18 December 2018.Read More →
The United Arab Emirates 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. The package holistically addresses the needs of the child by expanding the traditional focus on nutritionRead More →
At a conference hosted by the African Union and Kenya Ministry of Health, the Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN), in partnership with Kenya’s Ministry of Health and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and under the auspices of the ECED cluster, hosted an advocacy event on the theme of early childhood developmentRead More →
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. You can access a news report with further informationRead More →
During 67th East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community health ministers’ conference, held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe from 6 – 8 November 2018, the African Early Childhood Network facilitated a presentation and discussion on the evidence for and implications of the Nurturing Care Framework on child development. A subsequent resolutionRead More →
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. The community-based program was implemented in four counties of China,Read More →
On 3rd and 4th December 2018, the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC) in collaboration with the Tanzania Early Childhood Development Network (TECDEN) and Children in Crossfire (CiC) organized a National Multi Sectoral Early Childhood Development (ECD) Stakeholders’ Forum in Dodoma. The overarching goals of theRead More →
