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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD

Sub-themes:
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):
1) Scaling up Nutrition (multisectoral approach) – coverage, scale & challenges
2) 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

Government Initiatives for Early Childhood Development
• ECD Policy Framework – Multi-sector Approach for Holistic Early Childhood Development
• ECD Governance Structure
• Programme Development (Key Family Care Practices) & Budget Allocation
• ECD Standards, ECD Index Pakistan

Themes for Plenaries
• Why ECD is essential – Neuroscience, environment & behaviours, its impact and returns
• Nurturing Care Framework – Plans, Advocacy and Implementation in Pakistan- How this compares with the region, Asia?
• Economic Empowerment of Mothers and Adolescent Girls for promoting holistic ECD