Regional consultation on parent support for early childhood development and adolescent health in South-East Asia

Overview

The South-East Asia Regional Convening of the Global Initiative to Support Parents stimulated the interest or engagement of almost 45 participants from various institutions, NGOs and UN agencies etc. The convening united representatives across the region around the common cause of supporting parents and caregivers. 

The convening served as a platform for national representatives to share the country situation on parenting in their respective Southeast Asian nations. A core theme running throughout the sessions was how to take evidence-based interventions from science to scale, with exploration of the components of several specific interventions. Policies and platforms for supporting parenting were presented, as well as country experiences in influencing national policy to support parenting experiences from the Asia Pacific Region. The convening also presented country experiences in the utilization of service delivery platforms, such as health, education, and childcare to deliver parenting interventions.