Good Health

• Care during Pregnancy – Practices, Opportunities and Challenges
• Postpartum depression and its impact on mother & child health  
• Mental Health of Parents and other Caregivers – Its Impact on Child Care & Development
  
  

Adequate Nutrition

• Undernutrition (Stunting and Wasting):

• Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
• Ensuring Food Security for Every Child – current status, opportunities & challenges

• Maternal nutrition – Problem, its impact & solutions
• Infant and Young Child Feeding – What are adverse/sub optimal feeding practices and possible solutions to address them? How to ensure responsive feeding and care
  
  

Early Learning & development opportunities

• Ensuring Quality Early Childhood Development Services – A Strategy to Develop ECD Workforce
• Single National Curriculum for Early Childhood Care & Education –  Implementation, Challenges and Opportunities   
• Professional Development of ECD Teachers – Innovative Pedagogical Practices
• Promoting Playful and Positive Parenting for Nurturing Children
• Impact of play based learning on child development
• The new dynamics of online teaching and its impact on young children
• Ed-Tech & Early Childhood Development
• Role of home, school and communities in Early Childhood Development
• Inclusive Early Childhood Development & Education
• Urbanization and Early Childhood Development
  
  

Security & Safety

• Importance of positive parenting practices versus Adverse Childhood Experiences (neglect, violence, early & forced marriages, child labour and displacement)
• Creating safe & environment for promoting Early Childhood Development

• Warning signs of child abuse and neglect and how teachers and parents can play their role in sensitizing and protecting children
• Child Rights Interventions in Pakistan: Advocacy, Policies and Implementation
  
  

Responsive Caregiving

• Role of secure emotional relations between children and their caregivers for ECD
• Building capacity of parents and caregivers to recognize danger signs/red flags in holistic development of their children from Zero to age 8 & to respond their needs timely
  
  

Early Childhood Development in Emergencies

• Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Development
• Supporting & building Capacities of Parents & Caregivers- Ensuring Early Childhood Development during and beyond COVID-19
• Early Childhood Development in the age of Climate Change
• Government initiatives for ECD in emergencies