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 →
This 15-minute pre-recorded presentation was prepared by the World Health Organization for the International Conference on Early Childhood Development in Islamabad, Pakistan (February 2023).Read More →
Forty-two randomised controlled trials with 15,557 infants were included in the narrative synthesis to determine the effect of early childhood development interventions delivered by healthcare providers (HCP-ECD) on child cognition and maternal mental health.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 describes a series of workshops in Arab countries that considered nurturing care for children living in humanitarian settings. It reflects on cross-cutting issues and ideas that emerged and outlines a set of recommendations for continuing to advance nurturing care in five separate contexts, as well as in other contexts affected by crisis.Read More →
This advocacy brief makes the case that investing in early childhood development is a climate-change friendly investment. It presents the problem, the case for making investment, suggested actions, and efforts underway. Read More →
The authors provide a set of 10 theory-embedded action questions that service providers can reflect on and apply during their routine interactions with families and young children. These questions pertain to four layers outlined in the Nurturing care framework.Read More →
Cette publication explique trois points clés du document de travail 15 : « Connecter le cerveau au reste du corps ».Read More →
This brief distills three key points from the Harvard Center for the Developing Child’s Working Paper 15: Connecting the Brain to the Rest of the Body.Read More →
The Health Systems for Early Child Development platform is a one-stop-shop for policy makers, service providers, and service planners, where they can access latest evidence-based guidance and resources on early childhood development policies and programmes that health care systems can incorporate and build on. It is also a learning community that enables discussions and knowledge exchange on building a responsive system that addresses the needs of young children and their families. Read More →
This 15-minute recorded presentation provides an overview of “Strategic actions 2 and 3. Focus on families and communities & Strengthen services.” It describes the three areas in this strategic action: governance, policy and finance.Read More →
