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Our resource library is a searchable collection of documents, tools, and resources on parenting across the life cycle. You can filter the resources by topic, type, country, and more.
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Caring for the child’s healthy growth and development
- World Health Organisation
Package includes family counselling cards, participant manual and a facilitator guide
Toolkit/ManualGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishEarly ChildhoodParents and caregiversCommunity centerHealth servicesHome
Care for child development: improving the care of young children.
- World Health Organisation
Package including manual, counseling cards, posters, videos and materials, and M&E framework.
Toolkit/ManualGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalChinese (Mandarin)EnglishEarly ChildhoodParents and caregiversCommunity centerHealth servicesHome
Kangaroo mother care: a transformative innovation in health care: global position paper.
- World Health Organisation
Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is an intervention that allows the mother to take a central role in her own and her newborn’s care, thereby reversing the shift of power between the mother and the health-care providers or health systems. It humanizes maternal and newborn care by empowering and involving those who care most for the infant, rather than focusing predominantly on technological solutions.
Grey LiteratureAdvocacyFamily-friendly policiesGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishParents and caregiversPerinatalPolicy / Advocacy
Guide for integration of perinatal mental health in maternal and child health services
- World Health Organisation
The guide is intended to be used to develop and sustain high-quality, integrated mental health services for women during the perinatal period. It brings together the best available evidence to support MCH providers in promoting good mental health, identifying symptoms of mental health problems and responding in a way that is adapted to their context.
Toolkit/ManualAdvocacyFamily-friendly policiesGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishParents and caregiversPerinatalPolicy / Advocacy
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience.
- World Health Organisation
This guideline consolidates current guidance for effective and safe clinical and non-clinical interventions, as well as health systems and health promotion interventions for essential care during the postnatal period, to improve the quality (provision and experience) of postnatal care for women and newborns. It recognizes a “positive postnatal experience” as a significant end point for all women giving birth and their newborns, laying the platform for improved short- and long-term health and well-being.
Grey LiteratureAdvocacyFamily-friendly policiesGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishParents and caregiversPerinatalPolicy / Advocacy
Responding to child maltreatment: A clinical handbook for health professionals.
- World Health Organisation
This handbook is intended to enable and support provision of clinical care to children experiencing, or who have experienced, child maltreatment.
Toolkit/ManualAdvocacyGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishAll agesCommunity centerHealth servicesHome
Improving the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents: guidance on scheduled child and adolescent well-care visits
- World Health Organisation
This document provides guidance on strengthening health systems and services to ensure the healthy growth and development of all children and adolescents and to support their parents and caregivers. It describes the interventions that are appropriate to address the health and well-being of all children and adolescents along their life course.
Grey LiteratureAdvocacyFamily-friendly policiesGeneralParenting programmesScale upGlobalEnglishParents and caregiversPolicy / Advocacy
Men’s and Father’s Engagement in Nurturing Care: Compendium of Good and Promising Practices
- EMINC
- September 30, 2025
A new publication by the International Step by Step Association—Men’s and Fathers’ Engagement in Nurturing Care: Compendium of Good and Promising Practices developed under the Engaging Men in Nurturing Care Initiative (EMiNC), provides an overview of programs that promote men’s and fathers’ engagement in nurturing care during early childhood, shared parenting, and child-rearing responsibilities. These programs aim to transform how professionals work with parents and young children while fostering responsive caregiving that encourages men’s involvement.
Academic ArticleParentingGlobalEnglishFatherAdvocacy
Compendium of African Initiatives to Support Parents & Caregivers
- AfECN / African Early Chilldhood Network
This Compendium seeks to reinvigorate existing efforts to support all parents in all countries in Africa and to convince national governments to bring parenting programmes to scale.
Grey LiteratureAdvocacyGeneralParenting programmesScale upAfricaEnglishParents and caregiversAdvocacy
Supporting parents and caregivers: mapping and scoping review of experiences in Europe and central Asia
- World Health Organisation
This report provides an overview of parenting support programmes in Europe and central Asia, based on a mapping and scoping review of parenting programmes that was conducted in 2023. The report provides an analysis of the scale, scope and target groups of parenting support interventions, the trends and features of parenting approaches, and a selection of case studies highlighting parenting programmes with a strong evidence base and emerging programmes that offer unique or specialized approaches.
Grey LiteratureAdvocacyParenting programmesScale upAsiaEuropeEnglishParents and caregivers