id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-348717-qgny6f6y Shumba, Constance Reorienting Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya: A Review 2020-09-25 .txt text/plain 8589 390 45 Anecdotal evidence in Kenya shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to deteriorating optimal environments that threaten children's early development and has direct health impacts on caregivers and children [11] [12] [13] . There are several far-reaching, interlinked direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated control measures on nurturing care and related ECD outcomes including children's cognitive, physical, language, motor, and social and emotional development (Figure 1 ). There is a need to build and leverage community level programs and policy support, targeting children at risk of abuse and neglect, and adolescents at risk of early pregnancy, to ameliorate the negative effects of the pandemic, such as poor nurturing care environments and transactional sex for food and pads among adolescent girls, all of which subsequently leading to poor child development outcomes. ./cache/cord-348717-qgny6f6y.txt ./txt/cord-348717-qgny6f6y.txt