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ECD: Integration of Early Stimulation with Nutrition Programs

This article explores the importance of early childhood development, the impact of ECD and ECE, and the integration of nutrition interventions. It highlights successful programs and strategies to promote child development and reduce long-term costs related to stunting.

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ECD: Integration of Early Stimulation with Nutrition Programs

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  1. ECD: Integration of Early Stimulation with Nutrition Programs Dr Neelima Chopra ARNEC (Asia-Pacific Regional Network For Early Childhood) National Representative- India

  2. Who is a child? • A child is every human being below the age of 18 years unless, national laws recognize the age of majority earlier (CRC, Article 1) • Constitution of India defines child as • Human Being below 18 years

  3. Right to Life, Survival and Development and Right to Participation

  4. Birth to eight years What is early childhood?

  5. Prenatal Period

  6. Infancy (Birth-2 yrs)

  7. Preschool (3-6 yrs)

  8. Early Middle Childhood (6 yrs onwards)

  9. Why early childhood years are important?

  10. Impact of ECD

  11. Healthy brain • 80% of brain development takes place in first few years of life Evidence from neurosciences

  12. Synaptic connections

  13. Impact of neglect on brain

  14. ECE (Early Childhood Education) is part of ECD (Early Childhood Development) ECD and ECE

  15. An international priority for the 21st century • Global targets in • Education (SDG 4.2); • Health (SDG 3.2); • Nutrition (SDG 2.2); and • Protection (SDG 16.2) • Address key outcomes to realize young children’s developmental potential ECD is part of the transformative agenda for 2030

  16. Nurturing Care Framework

  17. Programs that promote early stimulation can further reduce the long-term cost of stunting and enhance the returns to nutrition interventions • Home visits that build parental skills, as well as group parenting initiatives that encourage peer support, have been shown to have sizable effects on child development in small-scale studies World Bank

  18. Enabling environment for integration of ECD/nutrition interventions

  19. BRAC (formerly the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) has developed an integrated childhood development intervention through its Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Program that delivers a wide range of services in a very cost-effective way • In Pakistan, the Lady Health Workers Program has combined a nutrition intervention with an early childhood development intervention that has been studied as a model of integrated programs • In New York City, the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center provides cost-effective integrated services to a vulnerable population A few examples of Integration of ECD and Nutrition programs

  20. for example ‘Care for Child Development’, ‘Learning through Play’ • small number of actionable messages • low cost materials • included caregiver-child interactive activities Structured curricula on psychosocial stimulation

  21. Discussion

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