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State of Southern European Fathers 2024: Building Evidence for Engaging Men in Nurturing Care in Italy, Portugal, and Spain
- EMiNC
The State of Southern European Fathers 2024 report developed under the EMiNC initiative, reveals a significant perception gap between fathers and mothers in caregiving. While many men participate in daily care, only 51% of fathers believe caregiving is equally shared, compared to 74% of mothers. This highlights the importance of fathers in children's development, but barriers like rigid workplace cultures, limited paid leave, and quality childcare hinder equal participation. The report calls for policy reforms, investments in early childhood services, public campaigns, and local peer support networks to promote men's caregiving and ensure all children thrive.
Academic ArticleParentingEuropeEnglishFatherAdvocacy
Nurturing Young Children through Parenting Support
- UNICEF
- May 31, 2025
Seeds of Success: Nurturing Young Children through Parenting Support – A Global Report on Progress on Parenting and Early Childhood Development (ECD) explores how supporting parents is key to helping young children thrive. The report examines global progress in parenting policies, services, and programs, highlighting innovations, persistent challenges, and opportunities for strengthening support systems. It underscores parenting as central to achieving early childhood development goals and calls for greater investment, collaboration, and advocacy to ensure every parent has the resources and environment needed to nurture their child’s potential.
Grey LiteratureParentingGlobalEnglishAcross childhoodParents and caregiversAdvocacy
The Effects of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs on the socio-emotional well-being of children and caregivers in refugee and forced displacement settings
- Estela Armijo and Tina Asnake (EOSH, World Bank)
The World Bank's latest paper investigates the critical role of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs in supporting the psychosocial well-being of forcibly displaced children and their caregivers.
Academic ArticleCaregiver and child mental healthGlobalEnglishAcross childhoodAdvocacy
Realities of Fatherhood in South Africa Today
- Mencare
A collaborative report by Equimundo, Sesame Workshop South Africa, Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town, Sonke Gender Justice, and Africa Health Research Institute. This report highlights the crucial role of social fathers—uncles, grandfathers, and mentors—in child development, advocating for policies and programs to promote engaged fatherhood for healthier families and brighter futures for South African children.
Academic ArticleParentingAfricaEnglishFatherAdvocacy
Guidance for Scaling Evidence-Based Parenting Programs
- Manzuma Bozmamadova, Rayanatou Laouali, Pia Sosa Walder (EOSH, ELP, World Bank)
The World Bank has released a comprehensive guidance note offering practical information on parenting programs for World Bank teams, government partners, and other stakeholders. This resource is designed to help optimize the design and implementation of effective parenting initiatives at scale. Access this valuable tool to enhance your parenting program development and implementation strategies.
Academic ArticleGuideParenting programmesGlobalEnglishParents and caregiversAdvocacy
Ending Violence Against Children by Supporting Parents: Recommendations and Background From GISP
- Brett Weisel
- November 30, 2024
The first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in November 2024 presents a vital opportunity to secure lasting commitments and investments. Since children depend on caregivers for their well-being, equipping parents with effective skills is one of the most powerful ways to prevent violence. Recognizing this, parenting support is one of the Conference’s three key “breakthrough areas.” This brief outlines what parenting support is, how it works, and its impact on ending violence across all ages.
AdvocacyCampaign materialGuideAdvocacyChild ProtectionViolence against ChildrenGlobalEnglishAcross childhoodAdvocacy
WHO recommendations on adolescent health: guidelines approved by the WHO guidelines review committee
- World Health Organisation
This publication on WHO recommendations related to adolescent health is one of four in a series; the others relate to maternal, newborn and child health. The objective of this document is to make available WHO recommendations on adolescent health in one easy-to-access document for WHO staff, policy-makers, programme managers, and health professionals. The compilation can also help better define gaps to prioritize guideline updates.
Grey LiteratureAdvocacyFamily-friendly policiesGeneralParentingScale upGlobalEnglishAdolescentMiddle childhoodParents and caregiversPolicy / Advocacy
Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE): group psychological help for young adolescents affected by distress in communities exposed to adversity, generic field-trial version 1.0, 2023
- World Health Organisation
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed this brief, transdiagnostic psychological intervention to help young people who are affected by internalizing problems1 (for example by symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress). The intervention is called Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (referred to as EASE throughout the manual). Four strategies or skills were chosen (identifying feelings, stress management, behavioural activation and problem solving) as these are the most common strategies included in evidence-based treatments for young people with internalizing problems.
Toolkit/ManualGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishAdolescentMiddle childhoodParents and caregiversCommunity centerHealth servicesHome
Caregiver skills training for families of children with developmental delays or disabilities
- World Health Organisation
This is the first part of the caregiver skills training package for families of children with developmental delays or disabilities. This five-part course package provides guidance – presented in text form as well as in a set of illustrated parenting strategies – to increase caregivers’ ability to promote their children’s development and well-being through structured play and home routines.
Toolkit/ManualGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishNepaliRomaniaMiddle childhoodParents and caregiversCommunity centerHealth servicesHome
Operationalizing nurturing care for early childhood development: the role of the health sector alongside other sectors and actors
- World Health Organisation
This guidance note specifically targets the health sector and aims to catalyse country-level dialogue and action focusing on health service delivery and systems strengthening while also outlining complementary actions by other sectors. It is relevant for national governments, specifically ministries of health, and for national and global development partners and other stakeholders. This guidance note is the first in a series of resources for all relevant sectors that will become available to facilitate the operationalization of the Framework. Key sectors that should engage in this operationalization include health, nutrition, education and protection.
Grey LiteratureAdvocacyFamily-friendly policiesGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishEarly ChildhoodParents and caregiversPolicy / Advocacy