Explore our resources on early childhood development

This knowledge hub is both for policymakers and implementers. We share national and subnational health and nutrition policies, strategies, plans, and guidelines that integrate ECD. These are living examples of how relevant content from the Nurturing Care Framework for ECD can be integrated into existing normative documents when dedicated technical assistance is available. Finally, where evidence or testimonies exist on how these materials were put to use and with what results, these are presented alongside the resources. Some of these assessments are formative and small in scope, so the tools may require additional testing. We invite partners to critically engage with the relevant tools, get inspired by them, adapt them to their realities, and generate more rigorous evidence of their effectiveness.

Most of the materials shared here, however, are more practical in nature. These are job aids, training manuals, and quality improvement tools inspired by global packages, such as Care for Child Development and Thinking Healthy. They have been subject to several rounds of iteration, including through human centered design, to fit the realities of health systems in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Finally, evidence or testimonies on how these materials were put to use and their results are presented alongside the resources. Some of these assessments are formative and small in scope, so the tools may require additional testing. We invite partners to critically engage with the relevant tools, get inspired by them, adapt them to their realities, and generate more rigorous evidence of their effectiveness.