What does it mean to truly support parents and caregivers in shaping the future of children’s development?

From policy and research to insightful conversations and a moving performance by Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project, our recent gathering at NYU brought together powerful voices to explore just that—through the lens of the latest issue of #EarlyChildhoodMatters2025, published by Van Leer Foundation.

When we support those who care for children, we invest in a stronger, more compassionate future.

Read Early Childhood Matters 2025: https://lnkd.in/gAiS87JQ

This event, organized in January 2025, showcased the six-year project’s accomplishments and learnings, including groundbreaking research led by NYU-TIES on media-supported early childhood development (ECD) program models and innovative approaches to integrate fathers in the nurturing care of young children as well as findings from the first-ever large, prenatal birth cohort study with a displaced population. The interactive sessions, featuring voices and stories from our work, highlighted the barriers we've overcome and the strides we're making towards placing children at the center of humanitarian responses.

NYU-TIES and RTI began launching the new Engage Tool to measure support for engagement of children in their learning, starting with the tools that focus on settings for primary school age children. Early childhood tools, whose development was led by NYU-TIES, are forthcoming. The Engage tools will be launched during a webinar on January 21st, 2025, that focuses on findings from a recent study by the World Bank showing how Engage is highly predictive of learning outcomes. Other panelists include practitioners who have been using the tool in Bangladesh, Sierra Leone and Uganda.