The Humanitarian Impact Institute works with partners and clients to ensure that the youngest children and their caregivers re visible in humanitarian contexts. Humanitarian Early Childhood Development recognises that babies and young children are among the world’s most vulnerable even before a crisis hits. However when humanitarian emergencies are present, this vulnerabilty often multiplies into existential risks.

This means that access to humanitarian early childhood development services are critical to avoid infant mortality and ensuring normal neurological development. Humanitarian early childhood development services should be embedded holistically into humanitarian programs including nutrition, WASH, education, child protection and advocacy strategies.

The Humanitarian Impact Institute’s experience shows that holistic humanitarian early childhood development is realised through staff training, partner capacity exchange and specialist technical support – all underpinned by effective monitoring and evaluative indicators and approaches incorporated into MEAL plans.  

Humanitarian early childhood development needs to be child-centric, gender adapted, trauma informed and responsive to identifying and removing access barriers and constant mainstreaming into programming and organisational culture. Our child protection experts will help you identify, reflect and adapt to maximise the impact for children.