October 2, 2024 – From 2012 to 2024, PATH and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation partnered to support the Ministries of Health in Mozambique and Kenya to design and pilot health system interventions that promote optimal development for the youngest children. Along that journey other partners and donors joined this endeavor, and Mozambique and Kenya became learning hubs for promoting early childhood development in the health sector. Ethiopia, Zambia, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, and Malawi have subsequently adapted materials and approaches tried and tested in Mozambique and Kenya to their context.
PATH has launched a knowledge hub which contains training manuals, job aids, government guidelines and other tools and summaries of evidence on promoting early learning, developmental monitoring and maternal mental health through health services and beyond, across several eastern African countries. All materials are downloadable.
The ECD Knowledge Hub is for policymakers and implementers. The materials 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. PATH invites 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.
Click here to view a webinar hosted by PATH introducing the Knowledge Hub and describing the work that lead to its creation.