UNICEF, in collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand and WHO, have created the Caring for the Caregiver package to increase frontline workers’ capacity to provide counselling and parenting support services. Using a family centered approach, the CFC improves caregivers’ emotional well-being and their social support to enable nurturing care for improved child development outcomes.Read More →

This collaborative venture is a multi-stakeholder initiative that provides a shared vision, identity and platform to amplify the work of its partners to protect children’s environmental health. Partners are united around a common vision – that all children deserve to grow up in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Read More →

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 →

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 →

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 →

These guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations on parenting interventions for parents and caregivers of children aged 0-17 years that are designed to reduce child maltreatment and harsh parenting, enhance the parent-child relationship, and prevent poor parent mental health and child emotional and behavioural problems.Read More →

This report summarizes the findings of a multicountry study examining the impact of formula milk marketing on infant feeding decisions and practices, which was commissioned by WHO and UNICEF. The research study – the largest of its kind to date – draws on the experiences of over 8500 women and more than 300 health professionals across eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Viet Nam). It exposes the aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry, highlights the impacts on women and families, and outlines opportunities for action.Read More →

This three-paper series outlines the multifaceted and highly effective strategies used by commercial formula manufacturers to target parents, health-care professionals, and policy-makers. The industry’s dubious marketing practices—in breach of the breastfeeding Code—are compounded by lobbying of governments, often covertly via trade associations and front groups, against strengthening breastfeeding protection laws and challenging food standard regulations.Read More →

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ً من املنظامت الخمس عىل املستويني العاملي واإلقليمي، ودعموا معا خمسة فرق عمل وطنية لتنظيم ورشات عمل مع مجموعة مختلفة من
القطاعات وأصحاب املصلحة بني أكتوبر وديسمرب 2021.
يلخص هذا التقرير مسار تنظيم ورشات العمل ويشمل تأمالت حول املسائل واألفكار املشرتكة التي ظهرت فيها، ويحدد مجموعة من التوصيات
ملواصلة تعزيز الرعاية يف مرحلة التنشئة يف هذه السياقات الخمسة وكذلك يف سياقات أخرى متأثرة بأزمات.

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WATCH VIDEO Strategic action 1: Lead and invest This 15-minute recorded presentation provides an overview of “Strategic action 1. Lead and invest”. It describes the three areas in this strategic action: governance, policy and finance. Frequently asked questions, steps that have been shown to be effective and signs of progressRead More →