This article unpacks the term “responsive caregiving”, providing examples of how it is universal and how the presence or absence of responsive caregiving impacts children’s development. The article underscores the need to develop responsive caregiving indicators.Read More →
This report provides state-of-the-art evidence paving the way for informed decision-making and targeted nutrition and child development interventions, fostering a healthier future for Lebanon’s most vulnerable populations. It underscores the urgent need for multi-sectoral collaboration and the prioritisation of national nutrition and child development strategies to address the child growth and development crisis.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 →
This 4 page brief outlines specific recommendations for PMNCH constituencies to address climate change as part of interventions for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) and accelerate climate policies, financing and programmes that integrate the needs of women, children and adolescents.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 →
This issue of the Journal of Global Health includes three articles summarising the available reviews on the impact of climate change on maternal and newborn health, child and adolescent health, and older people, which together take a life course approach to optimal development and healthy ageing. 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 →
The 2023 Country Profiles for ECD (in AR,EN,FR,SP,RU) were developed by UNICEF in collaboration with Countdown to 2030 Women’s, Children’s & Adolescent’s Health.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 2021 collection of “Country Profiles for Early Childhood Development” has been developed by UNICEF in collaboration with Countdown to 2030 Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health. The profiles are an attempt to compile, in one place, the available data for country and cross-country monitoring and to provide a baseline against which progress can be monitored.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 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 →
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 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 →
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 →
