Technical meeting on Early Childhood Development in the WHO European Region, October 2018(2019)

Meeting report

Copenhagen, Denmark, 11−12 October 2018

The WHO Regional Office for Europe convened the first meeting of an expert group on Early Childhood Development (ECD) on 11−12 October 2018. Global approaches to ECD stress the need for investment. The aims of this meeting were to identify and prioritize the specific needs in the WHO European Region for promoting ECD, including an adaptation of the global approach of the Nurturing Care Framework for the European regional context. The report outlines the recommendations made by the expert group, concluding that the European Region has additional specific needs in areas such as developing an approach to monitoring child development and responding to developmental difficulties.