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This World Health Organization (WHO) progress report looks back on the five years since the Nurturing care framework was launched. It documents achievements and presents areas for future action.
Annotated with stories of change, the report provides a snapshot of progress in relation to each of the five strategic actions of the Framework and shows the breadth of activities that have been undertaken.
This web annex forms part of the WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17 years. As such, it should only ever be read in conjunction with the main guideline document that sets out in detail how the methodology in the WHO handbook for guideline development was applied here, along with the development process and the recommendations themselves.
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These WHO guidelines provides 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 mental health among parents and emotional and behavioural problems among children.
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This report from the UN Office of the SRSG on Violence against Children explores repatriation, rehabilitation, and reintegration of the tens of thousands of foreign, Iraqi and Syrian children who are being held in detention on suspected ISIS association or terror-related offenses, or in camps. The report notes that these children are exposed to violence, due process violations (e.g. lack of hearings and legal representation) and family separation. Separated from their families, these children are deprived of knowing their family relations and are at risk of statelessness. In…
Overview
Enabling young children to achieve their full developmental potential is a human right and an essential requisite for sustainable development. Given the critical importance of enabling children to make the best start in life, the health sector, among other sectors, has an important role and responsibility to support nurturing care for early childhood development. This guideline provides direction for strengthening policies and programmes to better address early childhood development.
It is primarily the family who provides the nurturing care that children need…
Over 1 million EU citizens live in institutions, which segregate them from society and deny them control over their own lives. Many more are at risk of being institutionalised as a result of lack of adequate support services.
EU funding has been instrumental in improving the lives of many of these citizens. It has contributed to the development of new family-based and community-based services. And it has contributed to the transition from institutions to family-based and community-based care for thousands of people.
There have also been instances when EU funding was directed…
The 2019 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution on Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond can be found on pages 48-51 of the Report of the Third Committee on Social Development. The Resolution highlights a number of concerns and recommendations regarding children's care, including: noting the importance of strengthening intergenerational relations and promoting intergenerational living arrangements; acknowledging the benefits of positive parenting and support for the role of grandparents; inviting…
Inter-agency Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) guide Child Protection Case Management programming in humanitarian settings by enabling service providers to harmonise and standardise services and approaches for children and families. Many achievements have been made in rolling out SOPs in different contexts. However, in the absence of inter-agency guidance on how to develop SOPs, the scope and quality of SOPs vary – thus affecting their application.
Therefore, the Global Case Management Task Force under the Alliance for Child…
In 2008, UNHCR released the UNHCR Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child (2008 BID Guidelines), and added its accompanying Field Handbook in partnership with IRC in 2011. For the last 10 years, these tools have provided staff and partners with practical guidance, processes and tools on applying the best interests principle in decisions affecting children at risk in particular children who are separated from their parents and families. Building on the practice of strengthening national child protection systems and on 10 years of implementation of UNHCR’s Guidelines…
A framework for nurturing care
The Nurturing Care Framework provides a roadmap for action. It builds on state-of-the-art evidence about how early childhood development unfolds and how it can be improved by policies and interventions. It outlines:
- why efforts to improve health, well-being and human capital must begin in the earliest years, from pregnancy to age 3;
- the major threats to early childhood development;
- how nurturing care protects young children from the worst effects of adversity and promotes development – physical, emotional, social and…