Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum – Kyrgyz Republic
The RCEL Addendum package for the Kyrgyz Republic includes a training package and counseling cards, with optional videos that can be used if technology/capabilities allow.Read More →
The RCEL Addendum package for the Kyrgyz Republic includes a training package and counseling cards, with optional videos that can be used if technology/capabilities allow.Read More →
The RCEL Addendum package for Ghana includes a training package; counselling cards; and a flow chart to guide counselling during services. These materials are required for any programme interested in using the RCEL Addendum in Ghana. Additionally, there are optional videos that can be used if technology/capabilities allows.Read More →
Following a baseline study which identified high rates of malnutrition among children (0 to 3 years) in Nampulla Province, Transforming Nutrition and USAID Advancing Nutrition collaborated to integrate responsive care and early learning and monitoring for child development into TN’s community-based activities, including support for the widely used multi-sectoral nutrition intervention package for community-based services. Read More →
These ten instructional videos, available in English, Arabic, French, Kyrgyz, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, are for health workers and other early childhood service providers who work with mothers, fathers, and other caregivers of young children. The goal of the videos is to improve the quality of counseling and other services that promote responsive care.Read More →
Recognizing the importance of integrating nutrition and caregiving interventions in nutrition and health services, USAID Advancing Nutrition has developed the Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum, which has been piloted in Ghana and the Kyrgyz Republic. Read More →
The 24 articles in this journal offer insight from diverse traditions, policies, programmes and people. Together, they show why we need a person-first approach to caregiving and how we can get there, so that caregivers, children and entire communities flourish.Read More →
This WHO guideline provides global, normative evidence-based recommendations on complementary feeding of infants and young children 6–23 months of age living in low, middle- and high-income countries. It considers the needs of both breastfed and non-breastfed children.Read More →
This WHO-UNICEF report provides principles and approaches to intentionally include the needs and aspirations of children and young people with developmental disabilities in policy, programming and public health monitoring.Read More →
This scoping review aims to identify implementation pathways of Reach Up (RU) and Care for Child Development (CCD) programmes in low- and middle-income countries. The review includes 33 programmes from 23 low- and middle-income countries. A thematic analysis identified 37 implementation strategies across six “building blocks of implementation”: programme emergence, intersectoriality, intervention characteristics, workforce, training, and monitoring systems. Read More →
This collection of interventions and tools, developed by the Family Strengthening Task Force, is designed to offer family strengthening resources for supporting families in humanitarian settings. Resources range from programming interventions and campaigns to evaluation tools and evidence reviews and covers multiple sectors including child protection, gender-based violence, mental health and psychosocial support, education, and nutrition. The information provided here comes from a range of publicly available sources and is subject to change.Read More →
This strategic action is about improving services for young children and their families, with health and nutrition services playing a pivotal role. Remember that health and nutrition services already contribute to nurturing care (e.g., counselling on breastfeeding, kangaroo mother care, growth monitoring, etc.). This work must continue. Look for opportunitiesRead More →
This Progress Report looks back on the first five years since the launch of the Nurturing Care Framework. It reflects on achievements from 2018 to 2023, drawing attention to areas where there has been significant change, as seen primarily through key informants’ perspectives.Read More →
This guidance aims to support USAID missions and operating units in understanding how they can operationalize the Global Child Thrive Act through planning, implementing, and monitoring and evaluating integrated and inclusive approaches to improve early childhood development.Read More →
In this brief, Global TIES researchers evaluate a phone-delivered version of a parenting program in the Middle East and the first randomized-controlled evaluation of an audio-only parenting program. Read More →
This video is a testimonial from a caregiver living in Jordan who has been supported by local health care workers to better support the development of her 5-year old child, Ayla. The support has been provided through the Ahlan Simsim (Welcome Sesame) initiative in Jordan.Read More →
This 4 page brief summarizes the rationale and implementation strategies of the Ahlan Simsim initiative, as well as the prelminary results. It shows that caregivers want to know more about how they can support their children’s development and that health workers, when equipped with the right content and tools, can respond to this need. Read More →
These articles explore implementation of ‘Reach Up’ in multiple low- and middle-income countries. The papers illustrate how it can be delivered through multiple platforms, including home visits, group settings, and health facility contacts and community outreach. Read More →
This Thematic Brief shows how responsive feeding relies on and supports the integration of all five components of nurturing care into the feeding process. It explains what is meant by responsive feeding and how to create the enabling environments for caregivers to responsively feed their young children.Read More →
Home-based records have a long history, initially used to record proof of smallpox vaccinations in the mid-1800s. Today, more than 163 countries use a form of home-based record, such as antenatal notes, vaccination-only cards, child health booklets or integrated maternal and child health handbooks. This publication recommends home-based records to improve care-seeking behaviours, men’s involvement and support in the household, maternal and child home care practices, infant and child feeding and communication between health workers and women, parents and caregivers. Read More →