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PG Annex1
PG Annex1
Additional reading
on nurturing care
This Guide is part of a suite of resources developed
to facilitate implementation of the Nurturing care
framework. Table A1 provides a selection of materials
for further reading on nurturing care.
Advancing early childhood 2017 Identifies the risks to early childhood development and gathers
development: from science evidence for what needs to be done, and proposes pathways for
to scale implementation of early childhood development at scale.
The series explains nurturing care, especially for children below
October, 2016
Nurturing care for early 2018 Describes the conceptual framework based on the evidence
childhood development documented in the Lancet series. It explains the five components
of nurturing care for the child’s optimal development, and
NURTURING CARE
FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
A FRA MEWORK FOR HELPING CHILD REN SURVIVE A ND
proposes the strategic actions needed to achieve this goal.
TH RIVE TO T RANSFORM HEA LTH A ND HU MA N POTENTIA L
IN SUPPORT OF
Operationalizing nurturing 2019 Describes the role of the health and nutrition sectors in
care for early childhood implementing the strategic actions.
development
Operationalizing Nurturing Care
for Early Childhood Development
The role of the health sector alongside
other sectors and actors
IN SUPPORT OF
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Improving early childhood 2020 Evaluates the strength of the evidence on whether there is a
development: WHO guideline sufficient basis for promoting a change in global and national
policies.
The Guideline provides recommendations on responsive
caregiving, promoting early learning, integrating caregiving
IMPROVING
EARLY and nutrition interventions, and supporting maternal mental
health. These recommendations move the collected science into
CHILDHOOD
DEVELOPMENT:
WHO Guideline
evidence-based policy and programme responses.
Nurturing care 2020 Includes practical tools and resources to help advocate for
Instagram
advocacy toolkit early childhood development, working with and through
health systems.
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It includes key messages, frequently asked questions, thematic
vocacy care advocacy
toolkit briefs, country experiences, quote cards, and much else.
Improving early
y childhood development
with and through
elopment the health sector
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Thematic briefs 2020 Apply a nurturing care lens to address specific issues affecting
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T H E M AT I C B R I E F T H E M AT I C B R I E F – children’s development They outline what is already happening,
Nurturing care for
every newborn
Tobacco control to
improve child health
and development
2022 what can be done better or differently to ensure families receive
What is
nurturing care?
What happens during early
childhood (pregnancy to age 8)
lays the foundation for a lifetime.
We have made great strides
What is
nurturing care?
What happens during early
childhood (pregnancy to age 8)
lays the foundation for a lifetime.
We have made great strides
the support they need and children receive nurturing care.
in improving child survival, in improving child survival,
but we also need to create but we also need to create
the conditions to help children the conditions to help children
thrive as they grow and develop. thrive as they grow and develop.
This requires providing children This requires providing children
with nurturing care, especially with nurturing care, especially
in the earliest years (pregnancy in the earliest years (pregnancy
to age 3). to age 3).
Nurturing care comprises five Nurturing care comprises five
interrelated and indivisible interrelated and indivisible
components: good health, components: good health,
adequate nutrition, safety and adequate nutrition, safety and
security, responsive caregiving security, responsive caregiving
https://nurturing-care.org/engaging-men-in-nurturing-care/
and children affected by HIV To reach their full potential, children early childhood development? To reach their full potential, children
need the five interrelated and indivisible need the five inter-related and
components of nurturing care: good indivisible components of nurturing
Over the last three decades, scientific findings from a range of Clean, safe and secure environments contribute to enabling
health, adequate nutrition, safety and care: good health, adequate nutrition,
disciplines have converged. They prove that in the early years, environments for nurturing care. Clean air, safe and secure
security, responsive caregiving and safety and security, responsive
we lay down critical elements for health, well-being and surroundings, and outlets for physical activity are essential
productivity, which last throughout childhood, adolescence and opportunities for early learning. This caregiving and opportunities for early
begins in pregnancy and continues conditions for children to survive and thrive. An infant or young learning. This begins in pregnancy and
adulthood. Failure to meet a child’s needs during this critical
throughout the life-course. child who is exposed to environmental pollutants from sources continues throughout the life course.
period limits the child’s ability to achieve their full developmental
potential and threatens the future of human capital and society such as unsafe drinking water, air pollution or chemicals, as well
in general.1 We have made great strides in improving as a child who lacks access to spaces for outdoor physical We have made great strides in
child survival, but we also need to create activity and exploration is at higher risk of both improving child survival, but we also
This is particularly so for children affected by HIV who experience the conditions to help children thrive as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) as well as infectious need to create the conditions to help
several interrelated factors that may hinder the achievement of a they grow and develop. Nurturing care diseases (such as pneumonia and diarrhoea) and developmental children thrive as they grow and
child’s full developmental potential. These risks factors include: protects children from the worst effects delays that can reduce their lifelong cognitive, socio-emotional develop. Nurturing care protects
• being born too small or prematurely;2,3 of adversity and produces lifelong and and physical potential. children from the worst effects of
• having more severe pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease;4,5 intergenerational benefits for health, adversity and produces lifelong and
productivity and social cohesion. This brief summarizes some of the most important intergenerational benefits for health,
• being exposed to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis; environmental health risks faced by children today and it productivity and social cohesion.
• receiving suboptimal breastfeeding and nutrition, resulting in Nurturing care happens when we explains why infants and young children are particularly
poor growth; maximize every interaction with a child. vulnerable. It elaborates on the components of Nurturing Care, Nurturing care happens when we
• being cared for by a mother or caregiver who is experiencing Every moment, small or big, structured especially good health and security and safety. It aims to alert maximize every interaction with a
WHO/MCA/20.01
© World Health Organization 2019.
Some rights reserved. This work is available
under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence.
(https://nurturing-care.org/thematic-briefs/).
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A nne x 1 . A dditional reading on nurturing care
Nurturing Care for Early Designed to support implementation of the Nurturing care
Childhood Development framework, this website includes toolkits and resources in several
languages, as well as updates on how countries are progressing.
Early Childhood Development Covers the broad spectrum of early childhood development, up
Action Network (ECDAN) to the age of eight. It brings together a wealth of resources across
health, education, child protection and more. It also offers an
online community of practice through its platform ECD Connect.
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