This scoping review examines family-centered psychosocial interventions that support children affected by disasters, highlighting how caregiver well-being, family functioning, and developmentally appropriate approaches contribute to children’s recovery and resilience. It finds that while interventions show promise, evidence gaps remain for certain age groups and long-term outcomes, emphasizing the need to integrate family-centered approaches into disaster mental health systems.

This policy brief highlights what it takes to build a world where every parent is equipped to protect their children and support their health, safety, and development. Drawing on global, regional, and humanitarian insights, it identifies key enablers and barriers to scale, including financing, system integration, contextual adaptation, and cross sector collaboration.

This systematic scoping review examines programmes that integrate parenting support and financial well-being support for families with children aged 0–19 in the UK. It explores programme models, evaluation approaches, and evidence on their effectiveness in addressing child and family outcomes.

This webinar, hosted by ECDAN, explored how parent and caregiver support can be positioned at the heart of this agenda. Building on the momentum from Bogotá, the session focused on how partners working at the country level can support strong government pledges for the Second Ministerial Conference — including strengthening existing commitments, pledging new commitments, and increasing financing for parenting support.

This randomized trial in Thailand evaluated a blended parenting programme combining in-person sessions and messaging support, finding no reduction in child maltreatment at one-month follow-up. Results suggest the need to refine programme design and target higher-risk families, as well as assess longer-term impacts to better understand effectiveness.

This study explores the large-scale implementation of the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens (PLH-Teens) program in Tanzania, examining implementers’ experiences in delivering a parenting intervention to over 75,000 beneficiaries in a low-resource setting. It finds that while scaling evidence-based programs to reduce violence against children is feasible, long-term success depends on government support, strong local engagement, and addressing practical challenges to sustain implementation at scale.

Families, inequality, and child well-being are deeply connected. This report, commissioned by UN DESA for the International Day of Families, examines how global and regional patterns of inequality shape family formation, early childhood and child outcomes in the context of the 2030 Agenda. It analyses trends in income inequality, poverty, fertility, under-five mortality, education and broader family well-being, showing how disadvantage can be transmitted across generations when families are not adequately supported.

This technical brief highlights parenting support strategies and interventions that can benefit parents and help them create better spaces for children with developmental delays and disabilities to thrive. The brief includes data on children with developmental delays and disabilities and features country examples from around the world.

This large-scale study across eight African countries finds that the Parenting for Lifelong Health programme is associated with significant reductions in physical and emotional abuse, improved parenting practices, and better mental health outcomes for both caregivers and adolescents. It demonstrates that evidence-based parenting interventions can be effectively delivered at scale—even in humanitarian contexts—while maintaining strong positive impacts.

This brief presents findings from a global mapping of parenting programmes that aim to prevent violence against children and against women while advancing gender equality. It offers practical guidance for policymakers, programme designers, and implementers on how to develop, scale, and strengthen parenting interventions that promote safer, more equitable family environments.