Advancing nurturing care in humanitarian settings: overview of workshops in Arab countries

Amman/Beirut/Cairo, 17 November 2022 – Today, the Arab Network for Early Childhood, the International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization released a new report entitled “Advancing nurturing care in humanitarian settings: Overview of workshops in Arab countries”. The report shares learnings from a series of workshops held by partners in 2021 to advance commitment to early childhood development (ECD) in the region, and highlights efforts by Iraq, Jordan, Palestine and Syria to ensure nurturing care for children living in crisis settings. The early years of life are critical for a child’s development. However, millions of infants and young children in the Region continue to face huge challenges to survive and thrive. Children affected by crisis, particularly those under the age of 5 years, face multi-dimensional risks to their development, in large part because they are deprived of stable and nurturing environments. Many are exposed to elevated levels of insecurity, violence, and stress due to war and conflict, forced displacement, migration and resettlement. These experiences are likely to result in infants, young children and their caregivers lacking access to preventive and curative health services and facing high risk for malnutrition and other potential risks arising from socioeconomic adversity, extreme poverty and climate change. In late 2020, the 5 organizations developed an advocacy brief entitled “Nurturing care f...
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