March 2023 – WHO and UNICEF developed a Handbook to help governments and other stakeholders put the Nurturing Care Framework into action. The Handbook is organized around five strategic actions that connect to each component of nurturing care. There is a separate guide for each and Start Here is designed to work in combination with any – or all – of them. For each strategic action, the guides include: overviews, suggested actions, common barriers, tools and checklists for common tasks, indicators for monitoring progress, links to helpful articles and websites, and case studies, showing how governments and other stakeholders around the world can put nurturing care into practice. After the Start Here section, the remaining five guides can be read in any order.
This version incorporates feedback provided on a draft version that was released in 2021. It was launched in March 2023 with other resource materials to support implementation of the Nurturing Care Framework.